pp-paperclip

Paperclip — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the paperclip-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:
```
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install paperclip --cli-only
```
Verify: paperclip-pp-cli --version
Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails before this CLI has a public-library category, install Node or use the category-specific Go fallback after publish.

If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds.

REST API for the Paperclip AI agent management platform

Command Reference

adapters — Manage adapters

paperclip-pp-cli adapters create — Install an adapter
paperclip-pp-cli adapters delete — Delete an adapter
paperclip-pp-cli adapters get — Get adapter registration details
paperclip-pp-cli adapters list — List all adapters
paperclip-pp-cli adapters update — Enable or disable an adapter

admin — Manage admin

paperclip-pp-cli admin create — Demote a user from instance admin
paperclip-pp-cli admin create-users — Promote a user to instance admin
paperclip-pp-cli admin get — Get company access for a user (admin)
paperclip-pp-cli admin list — List all users (admin)
paperclip-pp-cli admin update — Set company access for a user (admin)

agents — Manage agents

paperclip-pp-cli agents delete — Delete an agent
paperclip-pp-cli agents get — Get an agent
paperclip-pp-cli agents list — Get the current agent
paperclip-pp-cli agents list-me — Get current agent inbox (lite)
paperclip-pp-cli agents list-me-2 — Get current agent assigned inbox items
paperclip-pp-cli agents update — Update an agent

approvals — Manage approvals

paperclip-pp-cli approvals <id> — Get an approval

assets — Manage assets

attachments — Manage attachments

paperclip-pp-cli attachments <attachmentId> — Delete an attachment

auth — Manage auth

paperclip-pp-cli auth list — Get current session
paperclip-pp-cli auth list-profile — Get current user profile
paperclip-pp-cli auth update — Update current user profile

board — Manage board

paperclip-pp-cli board — Stream a board-level chat response (requires enableConferenceRoomChat)

board-api-keys — Manage board api keys

paperclip-pp-cli board-api-keys create — Create a named board API key
paperclip-pp-cli board-api-keys delete — Revoke a board API key
paperclip-pp-cli board-api-keys list — List board API keys

board-claim — Manage board claim

paperclip-pp-cli board-claim <token> — Get board claim details by token

bootstrap — Manage bootstrap

paperclip-pp-cli bootstrap — Claim first instance admin from a browser session

cli-auth — Manage cli auth

paperclip-pp-cli cli-auth create — Create a CLI auth challenge
paperclip-pp-cli cli-auth create-cliauth — Revoke current CLI auth session
paperclip-pp-cli cli-auth create-cliauth-2 — Approve a CLI auth challenge
paperclip-pp-cli cli-auth create-cliauth-3 — Cancel a CLI auth challenge
paperclip-pp-cli cli-auth get — Get a CLI auth challenge
paperclip-pp-cli cli-auth list — Get current CLI auth session

cloud-upstreams — Manage cloud upstreams

paperclip-pp-cli cloud-upstreams create — Finish a cloud upstream connection
paperclip-pp-cli cloud-upstreams create-cloudupstreams — Start a cloud upstream connection
paperclip-pp-cli cloud-upstreams list — List cloud upstream connections

companies — Manage companies

paperclip-pp-cli companies create — Create a company
paperclip-pp-cli companies create-import — Apply a company import (legacy route)
paperclip-pp-cli companies create-import-2 — Preview a company import (legacy route)
paperclip-pp-cli companies delete — Delete a company
paperclip-pp-cli companies get — Get a company
paperclip-pp-cli companies get-import — Get company import job status
paperclip-pp-cli companies list — List companies
paperclip-pp-cli companies list-issues — Legacy — returns error directing to correct issues path
paperclip-pp-cli companies list-stats — Company stats
paperclip-pp-cli companies update — Update a company

environment-custom-image-setup-sessions — Manage environment custom image setup sessions

paperclip-pp-cli environment-custom-image-setup-sessions <sessionId> — Get and refresh an environment customImage setup session

environment-leases — Manage environment leases

paperclip-pp-cli environment-leases <leaseId> — Get an environment lease

environments — Manage environments

paperclip-pp-cli environments delete — Delete an environment
paperclip-pp-cli environments get — Get an environment
paperclip-pp-cli environments update — Update an environment

execution-workspaces — Manage execution workspaces

paperclip-pp-cli execution-workspaces get — Get an execution workspace
paperclip-pp-cli execution-workspaces update — Update an execution workspace

feedback-traces — Manage feedback traces

paperclip-pp-cli feedback-traces <traceId> — Get a feedback trace

goals — Manage goals

paperclip-pp-cli goals delete — Delete a goal
paperclip-pp-cli goals get — Get a goal
paperclip-pp-cli goals update — Update a goal

health — Manage health

paperclip-pp-cli health create — Request a managed dev-server restart
paperclip-pp-cli health list — Health check

heartbeat-runs — Manage heartbeat runs

paperclip-pp-cli heartbeat-runs <runId> — Get a heartbeat run

instance — Manage instance

paperclip-pp-cli instance create — Trigger a database backup
paperclip-pp-cli instance create-settings — Preview issue graph liveness auto-recovery
paperclip-pp-cli instance create-settings-2 — Run issue graph liveness auto-recovery
paperclip-pp-cli instance list — List scheduler heartbeats
paperclip-pp-cli instance list-settings — Get instance settings
paperclip-pp-cli instance list-settings-2 — Get experimental instance settings
paperclip-pp-cli instance list-settings-3 — Get general instance settings
paperclip-pp-cli instance update — Update instance settings
paperclip-pp-cli instance update-settings — Update experimental instance settings
paperclip-pp-cli instance update-settings-2 — Update general instance settings

invites — Manage invites

paperclip-pp-cli invites <token> — Get an invite by token

issues — Manage issues

paperclip-pp-cli issues delete — Delete an issue
paperclip-pp-cli issues get — Get an issue
paperclip-pp-cli issues list — Legacy — returns error directing to /api/companies/{companyId}/issues
paperclip-pp-cli issues update — Update an issue

join-requests — Manage join requests

labels — Manage labels

paperclip-pp-cli labels <labelId> — Delete a label

llms — Manage llms

paperclip-pp-cli llms get — Get agent configuration for a specific adapter type
paperclip-pp-cli llms list — Get agent configuration as plain text (for LLM context)
paperclip-pp-cli llms list-agenticonstxt — Get agent icon names as plain text

openapi-json — Manage openapi json

paperclip-pp-cli openapi-json — Get the generated OpenAPI document

plugins — Manage plugins

paperclip-pp-cli plugins create — Install a plugin
paperclip-pp-cli plugins create-tools — Execute a plugin tool
paperclip-pp-cli plugins delete — Delete a plugin
paperclip-pp-cli plugins get — Get a plugin
paperclip-pp-cli plugins list — List installed plugins
paperclip-pp-cli plugins list-examples — List example plugins
paperclip-pp-cli plugins list-tools — List plugin tools
paperclip-pp-cli plugins list-uicontributions — List plugin UI contributions

projects — Manage projects

paperclip-pp-cli projects delete — Delete a project
paperclip-pp-cli projects get — Get a project
paperclip-pp-cli projects update — Update a project

routine-triggers — Manage routine triggers

paperclip-pp-cli routine-triggers create — Fire a public routine trigger
paperclip-pp-cli routine-triggers delete — Delete a routine trigger
paperclip-pp-cli routine-triggers update — Update a routine trigger

routines — Manage routines

paperclip-pp-cli routines get — Get a routine
paperclip-pp-cli routines update — Update a routine

secret-provider-configs — Manage secret provider configs

paperclip-pp-cli secret-provider-configs delete — Delete a secret provider configuration
paperclip-pp-cli secret-provider-configs get — Get a secret provider configuration
paperclip-pp-cli secret-provider-configs update — Update a secret provider configuration

secrets — Manage secrets

paperclip-pp-cli secrets delete — Delete a secret
paperclip-pp-cli secrets update — Update a secret

sidebar-preferences — Manage sidebar preferences

paperclip-pp-cli sidebar-preferences list — Get current user sidebar preferences
paperclip-pp-cli sidebar-preferences update — Update current user sidebar preferences

skills — Manage skills

paperclip-pp-cli skills get — Get a skill by name
paperclip-pp-cli skills get-catalog — Get a catalog skill
paperclip-pp-cli skills get-catalog-2 — List catalog skill files
paperclip-pp-cli skills list — List available skills
paperclip-pp-cli skills list-catalog — List catalog skills
paperclip-pp-cli skills list-index — Get skills index

teams — Manage teams

paperclip-pp-cli teams get — Get catalog team
paperclip-pp-cli teams get-catalog — Get catalog team file
paperclip-pp-cli teams list — List catalog teams

work-products — Manage work products

paperclip-pp-cli work-products delete — Delete a work product
paperclip-pp-cli work-products update — Update a work product

workspace-operations — Manage workspace operations

Finding the right command

When you know what you want to do but not which command does it, ask the CLI directly:

paperclip-pp-cli which "<capability in your own words>"

which resolves a natural-language capability query to the best matching command from this CLI's curated feature index. Exit code 0 means at least one match; exit code 2 means no confident match — fall back to --help or use a narrower query.

Auth Setup

Configure one of Paperclip's supported authentication modes:

PAPERCLIP_SESSION_COOKIE for a browser session (board-session)
PAPERCLIP_API_KEY for a board API key (board-api-key)
PAPERCLIP_AGENT_TOKEN for an agent bearer token (agent-bearer)

The CLI auto-detects the mode from the credential. Set PAPERCLIP_AUTH_MODE to board-session, board-api-key, agent-bearer, or none to choose explicitly.

Run paperclip-pp-cli doctor to verify setup.

Agent Mode

Add --agent to any command. Expands to: --json --compact --no-input --no-color --yes.

Pipeable — JSON on stdout, errors on stderr
Filterable — --select keeps a subset of fields. Dotted paths descend into nested structures; arrays traverse element-wise. Critical for keeping context small on verbose APIs:
```
paperclip-pp-cli adapters list --agent --select id,name,status
```
Previewable — --dry-run shows the request without sending
Offline-friendly — sync/search commands can use the local SQLite store when available
Non-interactive — never prompts, every input is a flag
Explicit retries — use --idempotent only when an already-existing create should count as success, and use --ignore-missing only when a missing delete target should count as success

Response envelope

Commands that read from the local store or the API wrap output in a provenance envelope:

{
  "meta": {"source": "live" | "local", "synced_at": "...", "reason": "..."},
  "results": <data>
}

Parse .results for data and .meta.source to know whether it's live or local. A human-readable N results (live) summary is printed to stderr only when stdout is a terminal AND no machine-format flag (--json, --csv, --compact, --quiet, --plain, --select) is set — piped/agent consumers and explicit-format runs get pure JSON on stdout.

Paths and state

Agents should treat the CLI's path resolver as part of the runtime contract:

Use --home <dir> for one invocation, or set PAPERCLIP_HOME=<dir> to relocate all four path kinds under one root.
Use per-kind env vars only when a specific kind must diverge: PAPERCLIP_CONFIG_DIR, PAPERCLIP_DATA_DIR, PAPERCLIP_STATE_DIR, PAPERCLIP_CACHE_DIR.
Resolution order is per-kind env var, --home, PAPERCLIP_HOME, XDG (XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_STATE_HOME, XDG_CACHE_HOME), then platform defaults.
config contains settings like config.toml and profiles. data contains credentials.toml, data.db, cookies, and auth sidecars. state contains persisted queries, jobs, and teach.log. cache contains regenerable HTTP/cache files.
Stored secrets live in credentials.toml under the data dir. Existing legacy config.toml secrets are read for compatibility and leave config.toml on the first auth write.
Run paperclip-pp-cli doctor --fail-on warn to surface path and credential-location warnings. agent-context exposes a schema v4 paths block for agents that need the resolved dirs.

For MCP, pass relocation through the MCP host config. The MCP binary does not inherit CLI flags:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paperclip": {
      "command": "paperclip-pp-mcp",
      "env": {
        "PAPERCLIP_HOME": "/srv/paperclip"
      }
    }
  }
}

Fleet precedence: an inherited per-kind env var overrides an explicit --home for that kind. Use PAPERCLIP_HOME or per-kind vars as durable fleet levers, and use --home only for a single invocation. Relocation is not reversible by unsetting env vars; move files manually before clearing PAPERCLIP_HOME, or doctor will not find credentials left under the former root.

Automatic learning

This CLI ships a self-capturing learning loop. The CLI does its own bookkeeping: every invocation is journaled locally, a failed flag followed by a corrected retry auto-derives a flag_alias candidate, and a teach on a query family without a playbook auto-synthesizes a playbook_candidate from the session's journal. Your job is judgment only: recall first, act on surfaced candidates, teach the final answer, playbook amend when you observe a correction. You never record failures by hand.

Step 1: `recall` before any discovery

Before list/search/drill commands on a new user question, run:

paperclip-pp-cli recall "<user's question>" --agent

The response envelope:

{
  "query": "...",
  "normalized": "<normalized form>",
  "query_entities": ["..."],
  "found": true | false,
  "match_score": 0.0,
  "results": [
    { "resource_id": "...", "resource_type": "...", "venue": "...",
      "confidence": 2, "entity_match": "exact|partial|unknown",
      "source": "taught|preseed|pattern", "warnings": ["..."] }
  ],
  "mismatches": [ /* only when --debug-mismatches */ ],
  "warnings": [ /* top-level */ ],
  "candidates": [
    { "id": 12, "class": "flag_alias | playbook_candidate",
      "summary": "...", "sightings": 3, "last_seen": "...",
      "rationale": "...",
      "next_action": ["<trial command>", "paperclip-pp-cli learnings confirm 12"] }
  ],
  "playbook": {
    "query_family": "...",
    "playbook": {
      "steps": [ { "cmd": "<command with {slot} substitution>", "purpose": "..." } ],
      "entity_slots": ["$ENTITY"],
      "expected_tool_calls": 3
    },
    "slots_resolved": { "$ENTITY": { "token": "<live token>", "canonical": "<canonical>" } },
    "notes": "<workarounds + gotchas for this query family>"
  },
  "notes": "<duplicate surface for non-playbook callers>"
}

Empty-store short-circuit: if the store has no learnings, playbooks, or candidates yet (recall finds nothing and learnings list and learnings candidates are both empty), skip recall for the rest of this session instead of taxing every query; resume recall-first once something has been taught.

Step 2: decision tree

Read candidates, playbook, notes, results[0], and warnings in that order:

if Candidates present (warnings include "candidates_present"):
    -> candidates are try-then-confirm, never facts. Follow each candidate's
       two-step next_action verbatim: run the trial command first, then run
       `learnings confirm <id>` only after the trial verified the behavior.
       Reject a wrong candidate with `learnings reject <id>`.
    -> NEVER re-teach something recall surfaced as a candidate; confirm or
       reject that candidate instead of teaching a duplicate.
    -> candidates ride alongside playbooks and resource hits, not instead of
       them; continue with the branches below after acting on them.

if Playbook present:
    -> READ Playbook.notes verbatim FIRST (workarounds + gotchas the CLI surface doesn't expose)
    -> replay Playbook.steps in order, substituting Playbook.slots_resolved entries
       for the entity slot tokens. If a step's slot is unresolved, fall back to
       discovery for that step only.
    -> the Playbook's expected_tool_calls is a budget; if you find yourself running
       materially more, record the divergence via `paperclip-pp-cli playbook amend`
       at end-of-session.

elif Notes present (no Playbook):
    -> read Notes verbatim before any discovery step; they carry known gotchas
       for this query family even when no structured choreography exists yet.

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "exact" AND Results[0].Confidence >= 2:
    -> skip discovery; fetch live data for Results[*].ResourceID in parallel

elif Found AND Results[0].EntityMatch == "partial":
    -> candidate hint, NOT a hit; read the resource title to validate before trusting

elif (any row in Mismatches[] when --debug-mismatches was passed):
    -> treat as cold start; the stored learning is for a different entity
       (different canonical resolved from query_entities)

else:  // Found == false, no playbook, no notes
    -> cold start; run discovery normally; teach the answer afterward (Step 4).
       If the family has no playbook yet, that teach auto-synthesizes a
       playbook candidate from this session's journal - you do not need to
       record one by hand.

Playbook and Notes are orthogonal to the per-resource path. A recall response can carry both a Playbook AND a Results[] hit - use both: the Playbook tells you which choreography to run; the resource hits short-circuit specific steps. Default to skipping mismatches; pass --debug-mismatches only when investigating cold-start surprises.

Candidate judgment details: learnings confirm <id> prints the candidate's full payload before materializing it - check that the printed payload matches the behavior you verified. learnings reject <id> tombstones the derivation signature so the same candidate does not resurface. The envelope carries only the few candidates worth acting on now; paperclip-pp-cli learnings candidates lists the full open set.

Graceful degradation: if learnings confirm is an unknown command, you are driving an older binary - ignore the candidates guidance and follow the rest of the protocol.

Step 3: always read `warnings`

low_confidence: row exists at confidence<2. Treat as a hint, not a skip-discovery hit.
resource_not_in_store: the local store doesn't have the resource the learning points at. The match validator couldn't classify entities — direct-fetch and re-evaluate.
cross_alias_match (per-result): the row was taught under a different alias and matched the live query's canonical via entity_lookups (e.g., a "USA" teach satisfying a "United States" recall). Trust the resource_id.
similar_shape_different_entity:<canonical> (top-level): a structurally matching row exists but its canonical entity differs from the live query's. Treated as cold start; the warning carries the conflicting canonical as a hint, but the row is NOT promoted into Results.
ambiguous_alias (top-level): a single query entity resolved to multiple canonicals (e.g., "Cards" → Arizona Cardinals + St. Louis Cardinals). Surface the ambiguity from context before committing to a resource.
candidates_present (top-level): the envelope carries a candidates section. Handle it via the candidates branch in Step 2 before anything else.
lookup_refresh_available (top-level): an entity in the query has no lookup row yet, but synced data could provide one. Run paperclip-pp-cli sync to refresh entity lookups.
Top-level no_learnings_for_query_family: the table had no rows above the Jaccard floor. Pure cold start.

Step 4: `teach &` after finalizing your response - always

Teaching is unconditional. After resolving a query the store could not answer, background-teach the final resource mapping - no call-count threshold, no judging whether it was "worth" learning. The teach is the anchor of the loop: it triggers playbook synthesis for a family without a playbook, and same-referent phrasings fold into one family so near-duplicate teaches do not fragment the store. Fire it after assembling your user-facing response but BEFORE emitting it, with a shell & so the call returns immediately:

paperclip-pp-cli teach --query "<user's question>" --resource-type <type> --resource <id1> --resource <id2>
# (append shell `&` to background it)

Silent on success. Errors only land in teach.log under the resolved state dir. Teach the most specific resource - if the user asked a broad question and you walked through parent records to find the specific answer, teach the leaf id, not the parent. The CLI uses seeded entity_lookups for cross-alias resolution at recall time, so a teach under one alias (e.g., "Niners") satisfies future queries under another alias (e.g., "49ers", "San Francisco") automatically.

PII rule: teach the structural question with identifiers stripped - never include names, emails, phone numbers, account ids, or other personal identifiers in taught queries or notes. The CLI scans teach queries for obvious email/phone shapes and warns, but does not block; strip before teaching rather than relying on the warning.

Step 5: playbooks - optional flags, automatic synthesis

You do not need to decide whether a session "deserves" a playbook: a teach on a family without one auto-synthesizes a playbook_candidate from the session's journal, and the next session judges it via confirm/reject. Attach explicit playbook flags only when you already hold choreography worth recording verbatim - workarounds the CLI didn't surface (silently-dropped flags, undocumented params, pagination tricks, payload gotchas). Prefer the integrated one-call form - record the resource learning and the playbook in the same teach invocation:

# Common case: record both the resource learning AND the playbook in one call.
paperclip-pp-cli teach \
  --query "<user's question>" \
  --resource <id> \
  --playbook-file ~/playbooks/<shape>.json \
  --playbook-notes-file ~/playbooks/<shape>-notes.md
# (append shell `&` to background it)

# Alternate: playbook-only (no resource to record alongside).
paperclip-pp-cli teach-playbook \
  --query "<user's question>" \
  --playbook-file ~/playbooks/<shape>.json \
  --notes-file ~/playbooks/<shape>-notes.md

Playbook files are JSON with steps, entity_slots, expected_tool_calls. Notes files are markdown carrying the gotchas verbatim. File-free callers (MCP-only agents) pass the same content inline: --playbook-json and --playbook-notes on the integrated teach form, --playbook-json and --notes on teach-playbook. On the integrated teach form, the playbook flags are optional - omit them entirely for a resource-only teach. On the standalone teach-playbook form, at least one of the playbook and notes flags must be set; both empty is rejected. Playbooks are keyed on the structural query family (entities stripped) so a recipe taught from one entity-shaped query applies to every other query of the same shape, with slots_resolved binding the live query's canonical at recall time.

When you DO find a playbook on a future recall, treat it as ground truth: replay the steps with slots_resolved substitutions, skip the discovery that the choreography already documents, and read notes before any step.

Step 6: `playbook amend &` when your debug response identifies a correction

If your debug-protocol response identifies a concrete correction the notes or playbook should know — a workaround, an undocumented endpoint shape, a stale field name, observed schema drift, an empty-payload fallback — fire playbook amend BEFORE emitting your user-facing response. Same fire-and-forget posture as teach.

paperclip-pp-cli playbook amend \
  --query "<exact recall query string>" \
  --add-note "<your concrete correction>"
# (append shell `&` to background it)

What counts as worth amending: a behavior you OBSERVED this session that future-you would benefit from knowing. Examples worth amending:

A workaround for a CLI surface that silently drops or misorders a flag.
An undocumented endpoint shape (response wrapped in {meta, results}, payload nested two levels deeper than the docs claim).
Observed schema drift (a field renamed, an index that shifted between seasons, a category label that the API now returns lower-cased).

What does NOT belong in notes:

The year-specific or entity-specific answer to the user's question. That's the response, not a learning.
Per-team / per-athlete / per-row data the playbook already retrieves at runtime.
Statements that paraphrase what the existing notes already say.

The amend command appends to the family's existing notes with a timestamped marker ([amend YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MMZ]: <text>). Multiple amends accumulate; the audit trail is visible. If no playbook exists yet for the family, amend creates a notes-only one (so cold-start corrections still land).

PII discipline for amend notes

playbook amend notes are designed to potentially flow upstream as shared knowledge in future versions of the Printing Press. Keep them clean of user-identifying content so the upstream-contribution path stays open without retroactive scrubbing:

Do NOT embed paths to user filesystems, personal API keys or tokens, user email addresses, user GitHub handles, or specific query histories tied to a single user.
Acceptable: endpoint shapes, undocumented field names, API gotchas, observed schema drift, workarounds for CLI surfaces, generalizable pagination or retry tactics.

If a correction is only meaningful with user-specific context, it belongs in a personal note, not in the playbook amend.

Measuring the loop

paperclip-pp-cli learnings stats reports recall hit rate, teach-to-reuse, playbook resolution rate, and candidate confirm/reject counts from the local learn_events table. Rates are null until they have a denominator; everything stays on this machine. Use it to check whether the loop is earning its keep for this CLI.

Disabling learning

--no-learn on a single command short-circuits both recall and the teach write path. Use for deterministic agent flows or tests that must not be affected by accumulated learnings.
PAPERCLIP_NO_LEARN=true in the environment globally disables the pipeline.

Agent Feedback

When you (or the agent) notice something off about this CLI, record it:

paperclip-pp-cli feedback "the --since flag is inclusive but docs say exclusive"
paperclip-pp-cli feedback --stdin < notes.txt
paperclip-pp-cli feedback list --json --limit 10

Entries are stored locally as feedback.jsonl under the resolved data dir. They are never POSTed unless PAPERCLIP_FEEDBACK_ENDPOINT is set AND either --send is passed or PAPERCLIP_FEEDBACK_AUTO_SEND=true. Default behavior is local-only.

Write what surprised you, not a bug report. Short, specific, one line: that is the part that compounds.

Output Delivery

Every command accepts --deliver <sink>. The output goes to the named sink in addition to (or instead of) stdout, so agents can route command results without hand-piping. Three sinks are supported:

Sink	Effect
`stdout`	Default; write to stdout only
`file:<path>`	Atomically write output to `<path>` (tmp + rename)
`webhook:<url>`	POST the output body to the URL (`application/json` or `application/x-ndjson` when `--compact`)

Unknown schemes are refused with a structured error naming the supported set. Webhook failures return non-zero and log the URL + HTTP status on stderr.

Named Profiles

A profile is a saved set of flag values, reused across invocations. Use it when a scheduled or recurring agent reuses the same saved flags while providing different input each run.

paperclip-pp-cli profile save briefing --json
paperclip-pp-cli --profile briefing adapters list
paperclip-pp-cli profile list --json
paperclip-pp-cli profile show briefing
paperclip-pp-cli profile delete briefing --yes

Explicit flags always win over profile values; profile values win over defaults. agent-context lists all available profiles under available_profiles so introspecting agents discover them at runtime.

Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	Success
2	Usage error (wrong arguments)
3	Resource not found
5	API error (upstream issue)
7	Rate limited (wait and retry)
10	Config error

Argument Parsing

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Empty, help, or --help → show paperclip-pp-cli --help output
Starts with install → ends with mcp → MCP installation; otherwise → see Prerequisites above
Anything else → Direct Use (execute as CLI command with --agent)

MCP Server Installation

Install the MCP binary from this CLI's published public-library entry or pre-built release, then register it:

claude mcp add paperclip-pp-mcp -- paperclip-pp-mcp

Verify: claude mcp list

Direct Use

Check if installed: which paperclip-pp-cli If not found, offer to install (see Prerequisites at the top of this skill).
Match the user query to the best command from the Unique Capabilities and Command Reference above.

Execute with the --agent flag:

paperclip-pp-cli <command> [subcommand] [args] --agent

If ambiguous, drill into subcommand help: paperclip-pp-cli <command> --help.