paperclip

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By lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills (GitHub) · research · 17 stars · scanned at commit 908229c

Search and read full-text biomedical papers, FDA/PMDA/EMA regulatory documents, clinical trial registries, and UniProt/PDB/ChEMBL entries with the Paperclip CLI from GXL. Covers installing and authenticating the `paperclip` binary with a PAPERCLIP_API_KEY, the read-only virtual filesystem under /papers, /fda, /trials, /proteins and /clipboard, source-scoped semantic search, corpus-wide grep, metadata lookup and SQL, map/reduce reading across many papers, figure vision analysis, opt-in paper rep…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 13 places.

skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 33command -v paperclip >/dev/null || echo "paperclip NOT INSTALLED"
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 50[ -f .env ] && { set -a; . ./.env; set +a; }; paperclip search -s pmc "test" -n 1
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 68[ -f .env ] && { set -a; . ./.env; set +a; }; paperclip <command>

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skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 107[ -f .env ] && { set -a; . ./.env; set +a; }
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 139paperclip results "$SID" --save out.csv # stable header: title,authors,id,source,date,url,abstract
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 188paperclip search -s pmc "CRISPR base editing delivery" -n 5 # → result id s_5bcc8044
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 201paperclip search -s pmc "lipid nanoparticle mRNA delivery" -n 12
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 217paperclip grep -l "SLC30A8" /papers/ # matched paragraphs across N papers, plus a result id
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 227paperclip search -s fda "pembrolizumab accelerated approval" -n 10
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 237paperclip ls /papers/PMC10945750/figures/
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 324paperclip skills # list all, grouped by domain
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 392curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash # macOS/Linux; ~/.local/bin/paperclip
skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 113sh -c 'set -a; . ./.env 2>/dev/null; set +a; echo survived; paperclip config'

Changes files outside its own folder

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 5 places.

skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 346| `paperclip cp ~/path /clipboard/` | Those local PDFs |
skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 392curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash # macOS/Linux; ~/.local/bin/paperclip
skills/paperclip/references/cli-reference.md, line 265| `cp ~/local/path /clipboard/` | Copy local PDFs up |

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skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 235paperclip install --dir ~/work/my-project
skills/paperclip/references/repos-and-workspace.md, line 166paperclip cp ~/local/papers/ /clipboard/ # upload local PDFs

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 5 places.

skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 392curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash # macOS/Linux; ~/.local/bin/paperclip
skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 16curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash
skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 46uv pip install https://paperclip.gxl.ai/paperclip.whl

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skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 52unrelated `paperclip` package **is** on PyPI: `uv pip install paperclip` installs the wrong software.
skills/paperclip/references/python-sdk.md, line 17uv pip install https://paperclip.gxl.ai/paperclip.whl

Sends data to these websites: paperclip.gxl.ai

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a research skill.

Found in 3 places.

skills/paperclip/SKILL.md, line 392curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash # macOS/Linux; ~/.local/bin/paperclip
skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 16curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | bash
skills/paperclip/references/installation.md, line 24curl -fsSL https://paperclip.gxl.ai/install.sh | less

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'paperclip' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'paperclip' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named paperclip already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/lilinji/GeneTind-Life-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '908229c955510a1841b216e8bf58f6b22818d4dc' -- 'skills/paperclip' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/paperclip' ~/.agents/skills/'paperclip' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'paperclip' ~/.claude/skills/'paperclip' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-11	`908229c`	74