Cite this project¶

It looks like you're citing a paperclip in a paper. Someone had to be first.

GitHub renders the repository's CITATION.cff as a Cite this repository button. The file itself:

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use Clippy Pet in a project, please cite it using this metadata."
title: "Clippy Pet"
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: "Steinberger"
    given-names: "Adam Matthew"
email: "adam@matthewsteinberger.com"
license: MIT
version: 1.1.0
date-released: 2026-08-13
repository-code: "https://github.com/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet"
abstract: "A Codex-compatible v2 animated paperclip pet with source assets and QA evidence."

Plain text:

Steinberger, A. M. (2026). Clippy Pet (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://github.com/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet

BibTeX:

@software{steinberger_clippy_pet_2026,
  author  = {Steinberger, Adam Matthew},
  title   = {Clippy Pet},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {1.1.0},
  url     = {https://github.com/adammatthewsteinberger/clippy-pet},
  license = {MIT},
  note    = {Unofficial animated paperclip pet for the ChatGPT desktop app and Codex CLI}
}

The version in CITATION.cff is bumped on every release together with VERSION and CHANGELOG.md; the release workflow checks that they agree.