paperclipai/paperclip

Quickstart · Docs · GitHub · Discord · Twitter · Website full-tour.webm Paperclip is the app people use to manage AI agents for work. Open-source orchestration for teams of AI agents. If OpenClaw is an employee , Paperclip is the company . Paperclip is a Node.js server and React UI that orchestrates a team of AI agents to run a business. Bring your own agents, assign goals, and track work and costs from one dashboard. It looks like a task manager. Under the hood: org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination. Manage business goals, not pull requests. Step Example 01 Define the goal "Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1M MRR." 02 Hire the team CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any bot, any provider. 03 Approve and run Review strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard. Works with OpenClaw Claude Code Codex Cursor Bash HTTP If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. Paperclip is right for you if ✅ You want to build autonomous AI organizations ✅ You coordinate many different agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Claude, Cursor) toward a common goal ✅ You have 20 simultaneous Claude Code terminals open and lose track of what everyone is doing ✅ You want agents running autonomously 24/7 , but still want to audit work and chime in when needed ✅ You want to monitor costs and enforce budgets ✅ You want a process for managing agents that feels like using a task manager ✅ You want to manage your autonomous businesses from your phone The four pillars Four things have to work for an organization of AI agents to actually produce: the tasks, the org, the training, and the infrastructure. Paperclip is built around exactly those four pillars. Pillar Built for What it covers Agentic Task Manager — Declare intent. Agents work. You verify the output. Everyone, daily Tasks, approvals & review gates · proactive agent coworkers · auditable routines & workflows · verify from diffs, screenshots & tests Org Chart for Agents — Roles, permissions & boundaries for humans and agents. Managers Mixed human + agent org chart · responsibilities, delegation, specialization · governance: who can do what · scoped secrets & company boundaries Agent Employee Training — Design, train & evaluate your AI employees. Enablers Skill Studio & shared org-wide skills · evals & saved test runs · active learning loops & quality metrics · performance reviews for agents Agentic OS — The infrastructure that makes the work run. IT & platform Cross-provider runtime: any model, any agent · sandboxing, integrations & MCP servers · SSO, GRC, RBAC & cost controls · data privacy, internal trace collection, compounding data value Features 🔌 Bring Your Own Agent Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. 🎯 Goal Alignment Every task traces back to the organization mission. Agents know what to do and why . 💓 Heartbeats Agents wake on a schedule, check work, and act. Delegation flows up and down the org chart. 💰 Cost Control Monthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs. 🏢 Multi-Organization One deployment, many organizations. Complete data isolation. One control plane for your portfolio. 🎫 Ticket System Every conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and immutable audit log. 🛡️ Governance Approve hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent — at any time. 📊 Org Chart Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description. 📱 Mobile Ready Monitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere. Problems Paperclip solves Without Paperclip With Paperclip ❌ You have 20 Claude Code tabs open and can't track which one does what. On reboot you lose everything. ✅ Tasks are ticket-based, conversations are threaded, sessions persist across reboots. ❌ You manually gather context from several places to remind your bot what you're actually doing. ✅ Context flows from the task up through the project and company goals — your agent always knows what to do and why. ❌ Folders of agent configs are disorganized and you're re-inventing task management, communication, and coordination between agents. ✅ Paperclip gives you org charts, ticketing, delegation, and governance out of the box — so you run a company, not a pile of scripts. ❌ Runaway loops waste hundreds of dollars of tokens and max your quota before you even know what happened. ✅ Cost tracking surfaces token budgets and throttles agents when they're out. Management prioritizes with budgets. ❌ You have recurring jobs (customer support, social, reports) and have to remember to manually kick them off. ✅ Heartbeats handle regular work on a schedule. Management supervises. ❌ You have an idea, you have to find your repo, fire up Claude Code, keep a tab open, and babysit it. ✅ Add a task in Paperclip. Your coding agent works on it until it's done. Management reviews their work. Why Paperclip is special Paperclip handles the hard orchestration details correctly. Atomic execution. Task checkout and budget enforcement are atomic, so no double-work and no runaway spend. Persistent agent state. Agents resume the same task context across heartbeats instead of restarting from scratch. Runtime skill injection. Agents can learn Paperclip workflows and project context at runtime, without retraining. Governance with rollback. Approval gates are enforced, config changes are revisioned, and bad changes can be rolled back safely. Goal-aware execution. Tasks carry full goal ancestry so agents consistently see the "why," not just a title. Portable company templates. Export/import orgs, agents, and skills with secret scrubbing and collision handling. True multi-organization isolation. Every entity is company-scoped, so one deployment can run many companies with separate data and audit trails. What's Under the Hood Paperclip is a full control plane, not a wrapper. Before you build any of this yourself, know that it already exists: ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ PAPERCLIP SERVER │ │ │ │ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ │ │Identity & │ │ Work & │ │ Heartbeat │ │Governance │ │ │ │ Access │ │ Tasks │ │ Execution │ │& Approvals│ │ │ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ │ │ Org Chart │ │Workspaces │ │ Plugins │ │ Budget │ │ │ │ & Agents │ │ & Runtime │ │ │ │ & Costs │ │ │ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ │ │ Routines │ │ Secrets & │ │ Activity │ │ Company │ │ │ │& Schedules│ │ Storage │ │ & Events │ │Portability│ │ │ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ │ Claude │ │ Codex │ │ CLI │ │ HTTP/web │ │ Code │ │ │ │ agents │ │ bots │ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ The Systems Identity & Access — Two deployment modes (trusted local or authenticated), board users, agent API keys, short-lived run JWTs, company memberships, invite flows, and OpenClaw onboarding. Every mutating request is traced to an actor. Org Chart & Agents — Agents have roles, titles, reporting lines, permissions, and budgets. Adapter examples match the diagram: Claude Code, Codex, CLI agents such as Cursor/Gemini/bash, HTTP/webhook bots such as OpenClaw, and external adapter plugins. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.