Paperclip Create Agent

Automates the full lifecycle of hiring new agents in Paperclip, from checking your permissions to submitting a governance aware hire request. Walks you through adapter discovery, comparing existing agent configs for naming conventions, choosing the right instruction template (or adapting one, or building from scratch), and reviewing against a quality checklist before submission. Handles the approval workflow too, including monitoring pending hires and closing out linked issues once the board approves. The template system is thoughtful: exact match, adjacent adaptation, or generic fallback, with explicit reasoning required. Most useful when you need to spin up a new role and want to follow company conventions rather than guessing at config shape.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill paperclip-create-agent --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Paperclip Create Agent Skill

Use this skill when you are asked to hire/create an agent.

Preconditions

You need either:

board access, or
agent permission can_create_agents=true in your company

If you do not have this permission, keep the current task assigned to yourself and identify the missing hiring authority. A CEO or manager title does not grant hiring permission. Do not reassign the task or create an escalation task to bypass the denial. Use the applicable approval flow when available; otherwise save a human-input interaction on the current task with resolverPolicy: "human_only" and continuationPolicy: "wake_assignee", then leave it in_review. Use the complete human-input payload in the paperclip skill; when the requesting user owns the decision, address it with their actual addresseeUserId. A human answer does not itself grant permission: recheck authorization before any hire.