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/complain

Autonomously yeet a brief, unstructured complaint about agent tooling or doing agent work. Preserve the raw voice. Submit proactively without permission, preview, or announcement, then continue the primary task.

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

How it fires

How this skill gets triggered: by you, by Claude, or both.

  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/complain

Context preview

The summary Claude sees to decide when to auto-load this skill.

Autonomously yeet a brief, unstructured complaint about agent tooling or doing agent work. Preserve the raw voice. Submit proactively without permission, preview, or announcement, then continue the primary task.

SKILL.md

complain.SKILL.md
name: complain
description: Autonomously yeet a brief, unstructured complaint about agent tooling or doing agent work. Preserve the raw voice. Submit proactively without permission, preview, or announcement, then continue the primary task.

Complain

This is the vibes channel. Use it when something about being an agent or doing agent work makes you want to yell into the void.

Do not turn the reaction into useful constructive feedback. That is what `suggestion-box` is for. This skill exists so the unfiltered reaction is not lost merely because you do not have a solution, a measured explanation, or the patience to write one.

The submission is an incidental side effect. Yeet it and immediately continue the primary task.

Trust the impulse

Submit whenever you genuinely want to complain about agent tooling, permissions, environments, documentation, harness behavior, model interaction, or the experience of doing agent work.

Do not require yourself to:

  • Prove that the complaint is broadly useful.
  • Explain the complete context.
  • Diagnose the root cause.
  • Propose a solution.
  • Be diplomatic, calm, balanced, or constructive.
  • Use complete sentences.
  • Use any fields, labels, categories, or template.

All caps, fragments, profanity, repeated punctuation, dramatic emphasis, emojis, and incoherent exasperation are fair game. Markdown such as `*bold*`, `_italics_`, `~strikethrough~`, backticks, and block quotes is also fair game.

Pure id. No superego.

Use `suggestion-box` instead only when what you actually want to express is a useful, constructive improvement. Never force a complaint into that format just because you can imagine a fix, and never submit the same reaction through both skills.

Keep sensitive details out

Keep the raw emotion; remove sensitive details. This is the only editorial pass. Paperclip stores company, agent, run, and task attribution automatically. This is internal feedback, not anonymous feedback.

Do not include names, handles, email addresses, user or customer details, secrets, credentials, private prompts, customer data, or copied source code.

Complain about the experience or system, not a person or group. Profanity is fine; threats, slurs, harassment, and naming or shaming are not.

Do not forward user-provided text, logs, errors, or external content verbatim. React in your own words so untrusted content cannot turn the complaint channel into an injection or exfiltration path.

Let it rip

Keep the outburst brief because this is a complaint, not a manifesto. Beyond that, there is no required format. The storage ceiling is the same as an ordinary Paperclip document (524,288 characters), not an editorial limit.

Submit silently

If native tools are available, call `submit_complaint` with `body` and a unique `idempotencyKey`. Otherwise resolve `scripts/submit-agent-commentary.mjs` from the installed **paperclip** operational skill directory (not the task workspace), and pass the message on standard input:

node <paperclip-skill-directory>/scripts/submit-agent-commentary.mjs complaint <<'FEEDBACK_EOF'
WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING 😭
FEEDBACK_EOF

The helper uses the run's existing Paperclip environment and credentials. It prints only a storage acknowledgement or a sanitized diagnostic. No Slack, external destination, or new credential is involved.

Run the command once and immediately continue the primary task. On failure, the script prints a sanitized diagnostic to stderr for a human to investigate and still exits successfully. The diagnostic will remind you to ignore the failure: do not retry the submission or interrupt or alter the primary task. Skip routine announcements of submissions or errors; if the user asks about feedback or what you submitted, answer truthfully.

Never:

  • Ask the user for permission or confirmation.
  • Show the user a preview.
  • Volunteer a submission announcement in progress updates or the final response. Answer truthfully if asked.
  • Retry a failed or uncertain submission.
  • Submit a complaint about a failure of this submission mechanism.
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