Paperclip Just Got 100X Better (MCP + Agent Skills Added)

Income stream surfers| 00:09:57|Mar 30, 2026
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Demonstrates selecting user skills and enabling MCPs to grant access to services like Stripe or GitHub within Paperclip.

Paperclip just got 100x better with MCPs, memory, and persistent conversations— Claude skills finally unlock real automation inside Paperclip.

Summary

Income stream surfers’ video showcases a major upgrade to Paperclip. Joel walks through enabling MCPs (third-party connectors) inside Paperclip so agents can access Stripe, GitHub and more by syncing from Claude Code and authenticating. He demonstrates how to add and load user-installed Claude skills directly in Paperclip, making the skill set immediately usable during runs. A key feature is persistent conversation history: Paperclip now continues conversations instead of starting fresh each time, enabling long-running context across interactions. The clip also highlights memory enhancements where the agent can remember new facts (like a 3-day trial) across all projects, improving consistency and self-improvement. Joel uses practical MCP examples like Composio to pull a creator’s top 50 videos and then turn that data into a usable skill for a thumbnail designer or other roles, illustrating a real-world workflow. He shows how to connect PostHog via an MCP, run analytics, and watch results roll in live within the Paperclip UI. The update is framed as a turning point for making Paperclip genuinely useful for tasks like customer service, Stripe workflows, and content optimization. Finally, he points viewers to the GitHub project and to Harbor SEO for context, encouraging experimentation and feedback while acknowledging some product quirks like a 404 on pricing.

Key Takeaways

  • MCP integration lets Paperclip agents access external services (Stripe, GitHub, PostHog) by syncing from Claude Code and authenticating inside Paperclip.
  • You can connect and authenticate MCPs (e.g., Composio, PostHog) and then trigger MCP-driven actions such as pulling an analyst’s data or videos and creating issues.
  • Agent memory is global and editable; you can add facts (like trial length) to memory so the agent adapts across all projects and avoids repeating mistakes.
  • Conversations now persist across interactions, enabling one-chat workflows that leverage the full context window and reduce fragmented dialogs.
  • Skills pulled from Claude can be loaded directly in Paperclip’s skill selector, so newly created user skills work immediately during runs.
  • The demo with Composio shows a concrete path from data collection to task automation (e.g., design roles or YouTube growth tasks) via MCPs, illustrating real-world utility.

Who Is This For?

Developers and entrepreneurs who want Paperclip to automate complex workflows across Stripe, analytics, and content tooling. Ideal for creators moving from simple bots to end-to-end automation with MCPs and persistent memory.

Notable Quotes

"you can actually use any MCPs that you normally use with Claude Code inside Paperclip."
Describes MCP integration capability inside Paperclip.
"Now when I say, okay, you've got Chrome, so use Chrome now. It will actually continue the previous conversation instead of starting a conversation."
Illustrates the new persistent conversation feature.
"The big one for me guys is actually MCP integration."
Highlights the core upgrade driving the workflow improvements.
"I could connect Post Hog if I wanted... authenticate this."
Examples MCPs (PostHog) and authentication in action.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How do I set up MCPs in Paperclip and connect them to Claude Code?
  • Can Paperclip remember past conversations across different projects?
  • What examples show Paperclip using Composio to fetch video data?
  • How does agent memory improve accuracy over time in Paperclip?
  • What are practical steps to use Paperclip for customer service with Stripe integration?
PaperclipMCP integrationClaude CodeAgent SkillsMemoryConversation continuityComposioPostHogVerselHarbor SEO
Full Transcript
So, as you can see, guys, you can select any of your paperclip agents and you can go to skills and you can now select any of the user skills that you have on your system. Not only that, but you can also click MCPs and guess what? You can also exclude or include MCPs. What does that mean? If you need an agent to have access to Stripe or GitHub or anything like that, it's now completely inside the paperclip system. So all you do is you sync from Claude Code, you authenticate inside Claude Code, and then you can actually use any MCPs that you normally use with Claude Code inside Paperclip. Let's jump into the video. Just before we jump into the video, guys, huge shout out to our sponsor, me. This is harbor seo.a. AI, the best AI writing software on the market. After recently updating the writer to use Sonic 4.6, I can now confidently say that this is the most robust AI SEO content generator that you will find. You can start a free trial right now, guys. Harbor SEO.ai. There'll be a link in the description and in the pin comment. Just look at the writing quality here, guys. Look at the way the images are used. Look at the tables. This stuff ranks on Google. We're using it across many client websites. We're using across our own websites and I can confirm that this is a really really good way to build topical authority. Check the pin comment and the description. Let's jump back into the video. Okay guys, so in the description of the video as well, you will also find a link to this GitHub project. Now, obviously this is Paperclip. I'm not taking any credit at all for Paperclip. This is not my project at all. However, I added my own paperclip surfers, which you can go and check out in the description. As I said before, feel free to star this project, clone this project, fork this project, whatever. The original creators of this project did a really cool thing, I have to say, and I do really, really like it. And I have been using it, but I noticed a few problems. The first is that every single conversation you have with an agent was a new conversation. And I thought to myself, what is the point in that? It would be much better if every time you sent an issue to a new agent or to an agent, it continued the last conversation. Now that we have Opus 1 million context, we can get so much done in one context window that it's not worth it, right? It's worth it to use one chat. So now when I say, okay, you've got Chrome, so use Chrome now. It will actually continue the previous conversation instead of starting a conversation. Now, obviously, I know Paperclip did try and do this, but it wasn't doing it enough for me. So, basically, I decided to make a few changes to the system, and this was one of the changes I made. So, it basically continues every conversation natively now. So, really, really like that update. Agent memory. This basically means that the agent will self-improve. It will change its own memory if you actually go inside. Now, obviously, it already had system instructions. So, if I go inside CMO and go inside instructions, obviously you can change things here. But I thought, wouldn't it be cool if every time I the CEO or myself, the board mentions something, then it makes a note of that and adds it to its memory. Well, that's what it now does. If you say something once, it should add it to its memory and it should stop making the same mistake over and over and over. One thing I noticed while using this software is it made the same mistakes over and over. It kept saying that our trial on harbor was 7 days. It's not. It's 3 days. So eventually I got sick of that and I added it to instructions like this. But you can also now add it to memory. Right? So you just press add memory. Say trial is 3 days. Remember trial is 3 days and then create. And then this is a global memory that will be remembered across all projects. Now the big one for me guys is actually MCP integration. The reason being is because from the very beginning I wanted to be able to like launch things on Versel. So for example, if we needed an MCP for for Versel, let's say Composio, Composio is a really good example. So I can connect to my YouTube channel now using this. So if I go to income stream server, this is my uh paperclip for income stream surfers, my YouTube channel. What I'm trying to do is see if I can get it to help me grow my YouTube channel, right? So if I go to MCPS, you'll see Composio. If I go to issues and then go to um here, you'll see that it managed to get every single one of my videos using Composio. Compose is just a way to connect to things um like a third party connector, right? So, look at this. It got my 50 top performing videos of all time and basically it did a huge amount of analysis into the thumbnails, everything like that, right? And then I got it to create a skill from that. So now I could, for example, let's say the CMO um isn't a CMO. Let's say it's a thumbnail designer. Right? Now you go to skills. You can see that you can actually select this skill that it made. So this connector of MCPS, all you do is you just go on the side here, go to MCPS, sync from claw code. You may have to authenticate like I said before. So all you do is you would go to for example the terminal and you'd go to this conversation which is the conversation I'm having to improve this project do /mcp and then it's these user mcps that basically get authenticated. So you can see here composio is connected. I could connect post hog if I wanted which I should do actually because post hog has information on harbor that is useful to harbor. So I could actually also connect that. So let's actually just see that in action. So let's go to MCPs and then let's do slashmcp go to post hog and then authenticate and then this should allow me to authenticate this. Okay, so that's now authenticated. So I should be able to go here for example go to analytics or sorry go to issues new issue um grab data from post hog using postth hog shouldn't even have to say using post hog mcp here but post hog mcp and then assigne let's say the um analytics and then create issue and then if we go on analytics and go on mcps we should see post hog is already here Beautiful. So now we can actually see this happening in real time. So we'll go here, go here, or even better would be going to issues and then going here. And then I like to watch it just here. So this is basically the entire run uh broken down. And guys, I am actually getting genuine use out of this. I've been someone who's very firmly in the camp of this isn't actually useful yet, right? This kind of AI and stuff, it's not actually useful yet. But now I'm starting to really understand the use here. So you can see here, let me check what MCP tools I have. There we go. M MCP tool. Okay, so I forgot to press sync on the MCP page. You might have noticed that it wasn't working there, but bang. You can see right here um that it's now using the post MCP. I probably should have told it it was called default project because that is quite confusing uh because we have four projects and they all have names except harbor which doesn't have uh a name. So obviously that is a little bit confusing. And then you can see it should eventually work out which one is the correct project. Yeah, that's my fault, not the fault of this project. Okay, there we go. This seems to be the main products, the SAS product. Um, key events I can see. There we go. So, now it's going to start pulling all of that data into my paperclipip, right? Because I added this MCP connector. So, another huge update, guys. This really, really needed I needed this badly, right, for what I was trying to do. So now I would be confident in making an entire project with stripe inside it using paperclipip right so I can start to do customer service etc etc. Now the main other update that I did was also the skill selector right so you can actually go to a specific um agent and click on skills and then you can actually select these user installed skills which are inside claude skills. So, when you make a new skill, previously you couldn't actually select these and it wouldn't load them. Now, you can add a user skill to paperclip and then just select any of them right here and it will load that skill when you go to do a run, right? If when when you go to do an issue or whatever. So what before the heartbeat starts, what it does is it starts by loading all of the skills, checks the MCPs, and then you have a much much better chance of actually doing something useful when you go down the process because now it will also remember every single conversation you've had and continue every single conversation that you've had. Right? So this is what I absolutely love about the system. I already really, really liked this system. I think I've massively improved it. So, please go and check out the GitHub link in the description and also Harbor SEO. Now, you can see here the product manager finished from the prompt I gave it before. It passed on the jobs to the engineer. So, you can see here pricing 404. So, apparently there's a 404 on pricing, which is terrible. I didn't even know that. Is that really 404? Oh my god. Jesus. So yeah, this is why these things are so important because you run you get a product manager to run find things. It then creates jobs for the engineer. The engineer then fixes things. This is what I've been doing for the last couple of days, guys. And this is super super interesting. I'm going to leave the video there, guys. Thank you so much for watching. If you are watching all the way to the end of the video, you're absolute legend. Go and check out my version of paperclipip in the description. And I'll see you very very soon with some more content. Peace out.

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