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Paperclip Distill

Turns Paperclip project activity into readable wiki standups, project pages and decision logs

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Repository
paperclipai/paperclip
Stars
110,078
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

When installed, this skill teaches an AI agent how to read a bounded bundle of recent Paperclip project activity (issue titles, comments, and document bodies) and rewrite it as durable wiki pages: a project standup, a project overview, decisions, and history. It asks the agent to explain what a project is, what was decided, what is at risk, and where it stands now, rather than producing a dated list of issues. It also forbids reading attachments, work products, or linked URLs, and requires writing only to the default wiki space.

Great for

  • Teams running Paperclip who want an LLM Wiki kept up to date from project activity
  • Operators running cursor-window, backfill, or manual distill operations
  • Maintainers who want project pages written as narrative rather than templated logs

Skip it if

  • Distilling raw files or answering questions: the file says those tasks belong to the wiki-ingest and wiki-query skills
  • Extracting content from attachments or work products, which the skill explicitly blocks until a separate approved policy exists
  • Users without a Paperclip instance and LLM Wiki setup, since the skill has no use outside that workflow

Try asking

  • “Run a cursor-window distill for the project tied to this operation issue and update its standup”
  • “Backfill the wiki with the historical activity of a root issue”
  • “Trigger a manual distill-paperclip-now from the UI for one project”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Paperclip DistillInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    paperclip-distill.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip paperclip-distill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip paperclip-distill.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Make sure the operation issue carries spaceSlug default, because the skill stops and comments on any other slug
  • Let the agent read existing standup and index pages first so it patches rather than rewrites accepted decisions
  • Ask for attachment or work-product content only through the Phase 5 security gate policy, not this skill

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from paperclipai/paperclip under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.