Is there any obvious reason I'd get the message

Skipping paths: resources

it means it saw you had that in paths, but there is no canonical way to do that in pom.xml so, it just didn't do anything with it

in Maven, you typically need to pull in a plugin and do several steps to work with a resources dir

strange, I somehow managed to deploy to clojars on a different computer (with depstar+maven), and don't remember any issues getting resources in the jar