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Paperclip Agent Hiring

Draft and submit hire requests for new AI agents in a Paperclip company, with governance checks.

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Repository
paperclipai/paperclip
Stars
110,078
Licence
MIT
Files
9 files

What it does

When an AI agent is asked to create a new agent inside a Paperclip company, this skill walks it through the steps: checking it has hiring permission, looking at existing agent configurations and allowed icons, drafting a role description and config, checking the draft against a review checklist, and submitting a hire request to the Paperclip server. If the hire needs board approval, the skill tells the agent to track the approval rather than assume the agent exists.

Great for

  • Operators running a Paperclip company who want agents to propose or create new team members under governance rules
  • Developers building or testing hiring workflows on a Paperclip instance
  • Board members or managers reviewing how agent hire requests are drafted and approved

Skip it if

  • People who just want to write a prompt for a single chatbot; this is specific to the Paperclip platform API and its hiring permissions (no Paperclip instance means it cannot run).
  • Users without hiring permission (can_create_agents) or board access; the skill itself says the agent must stop and request human input in that case.
  • Environments where the agent should not create persistent agents with API keys and working-directory access, since a hire grants real capabilities inside the company.

Try asking

  • “Hire a QA engineer reporting to the CTO, using the existing company agent configurations as a guide.”
  • “Draft a security engineer agent config and submit it for board approval.”
  • “Create a UX designer agent with a role description but no scheduled heartbeat.”
  • “Compare the company's existing agent configs and propose a new coder agent that matches their naming and icon conventions.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Paperclip Agent HiringInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 9 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    paperclip-create-agent.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

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

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip paperclip-create-agent.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

  • Give the agent a clear role and reporting line up front; the skill asks for these before drafting.
  • Expect hires to go to pending_approval in most setups, and check the approval thread rather than assuming the agent is live.
  • Review the draft against references/draft-review-checklist.md before submission, especially any browser, filesystem, or secret access, which the skill requires you to justify.

What's inside

  • references/agent-instruction-templates.md
  • references/agents/coder.md
  • references/agents/qa.md
  • references/agents/securityengineer.md
  • references/agents/uxdesigner.md
  • references/api-reference.md
  • references/baseline-role-guide.md
  • references/draft-review-checklist.md
  • 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.