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Status Card Query

Lets an agent build and maintain Paperclip status cards that summarize company work via bounded searches.

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

What it does

This skill teaches an AI agent how to create and update status cards inside a Paperclip company workspace. A status card is a standing, automatically refreshed summary of work, such as blocked or in-review launch tasks, written from a plain-English request. The agent turns that request into structured, size-limited search queries against the company's issues, then writes a Markdown summary back through the Paperclip API and keeps it updated later.

Great for

  • Teams running Paperclip who want recurring summaries of blocked, in-review, or recently updated work
  • Operators who manage agent-driven workflows and need bounded, company-scoped reporting
  • Developers building or customising Paperclip agent workflows that use the status card API

Skip it if

  • Anyone not using Paperclip, since the API endpoints and environment variables only exist in that system
  • Use cases needing unrestricted data access: the skill limits cards to 20 per agent, 4,000-character prompts, and queries capped at 50 results, and it requires specific permissions and a feature flag
  • Situations where a card's API key or run credentials are shared or over-scoped, because the skill sends a bearer token with every request and writes to company data

Try asking

  • “Create a status card that tracks blocked or in-review launch work updated this week”
  • “Refine my existing status card so it calls out the single next decision needed”
  • “Refresh the status card on the operations project now”
  • “Compile my prompt about high-priority bugs assigned to the QA agent into a recent-activity query”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Status Card QueryInstall, 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.

    status-card-query.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip status-card-query.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip status-card-query.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

  • Keep interest prompts specific and time-bounded, such as 'this week' or 'last 24h', so the compiled query stays narrow
  • Use one card per distinct population of work rather than one broad card, since queries are union-based and can grow large
  • Review the first generated summary and query before relying on it, because the agent compiles prompts into queries that determine what appears on the card

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.