paperclip-distill

1# Paperclip Distill
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3Distill Paperclip project, issue, comment, and document activity into durable wiki pages. The success criterion is **wiki-insightful, not procedural**: a reader who has never seen Paperclip should learn what the project is, what was decided, what is at risk, and what the current state is — without scanning a list of `## [YYYY-MM-DD]` headers.
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5## When this skill is needed
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7- Cursor-window distillation: the routine fed you a bounded source bundle of recent Paperclip activity for one project or root issue.
8- Backfill: the user asked to seed the wiki with the historical activity of a project or root issue. Source window may be wide.
9- Manual `distill-paperclip-now` request from the UI.
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11If the operation issue is `operationType: "ingest"` (raw file) or `operationType: "query"`, this is the wrong skill — use `wiki-ingest` or `wiki-query`.
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13## Destination space
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15In Phase 1, every Paperclip distill, backfill, and cursor-window operation writes into the
16default wiki space. The operation issue should always carry `spaceSlug: "default"`. If an
17operation issue passes any other slug, stop and surface the mismatch in a comment — do not
18write Paperclip-derived pages into a non-default space.
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20This rule is destination-only. The Paperclip source scope (which projects, root issues,
21comments, documents are read) is set elsewhere in the operation issue and is independent of
22the destination.
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24## Inputs
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