Create a new issue-thread interaction UI (Developer/maintainer skill)
Developer/maintainer skill. Do NOT install this on production Paperclip agents.
This skill walks a Paperclip contributor through introducing a new issue-thread
interaction kind from shared contract to issue-detail wiring, helpers, and
docs. It is intentionally a developer/maintainer skill: the audience is a
human or coding agent making code changes inside paperclipai/paperclip, not
the operational agents that run inside a deployed Paperclip company.
Do NOT install this on production Paperclip agents. This guide is for repository contributors changing Paperclip itself.
When to use
- A new interaction kind is being introduced (compact picker, structured rating, in-thread approval card, etc.).
- An existing interaction needs a parallel variant with a distinct payload
shape, validation, or resolution outcome (and
ask_user_questionsis the wrong fit because option count, target binding, or result shape differs). - A reviewer asks for "the same audit, staleness, supersede, and continuation semantics as the other interactions" on a new card.
When NOT to use
- Adding fields to an existing inter…
