Paperclip Distill
Turns Paperclip project activity into readable wiki standups, project pages and decision logs
- 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”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
paperclip-distill.zip - 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
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.