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Paperclip (github.com)

The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

About Paperclip (github.com)

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration app for teams of AI agents at work. It lets a person bring their own agents, assign business goals, and track work and costs for a whole team of agents from one dashboard. It is built for people who coordinate multiple AI agents such as OpenClaw, Codex, Claude and Cursor and want them managed like a company rather than a pile of scripts.

Paperclip runs as a Node.js server with a React user interface. A person defines a goal, hires agents into roles such as CEO, CTO, engineer, designer or marketer using any model or provider, reviews the proposed strategy, sets a budget, and starts the team; work and costs are then tracked from a single dashboard.

Paperclip provides an agentic task manager with approval and review gates, an org chart defining roles and permissions for humans and agents, and a Skill Studio for training and evaluating agent skills. It supports a cross-provider runtime for any model or agent, company and project budget controls with threshold alerts, scheduled routines, and connections to services such as GitHub, Notion and Railway or a custom MCP server.

Paperclip is open source under the MIT license, deployable as a single instance that can host multiple organizations with separate tasks, agents and permissions. It can be monitored and managed from a phone as well as a desktop dashboard. A hosted Paperclip Cloud offering is in development, with sign-up currently limited to a waitlist rather than general availability.

Use cases

  • Coordinating many different agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Claude, Cursor) toward one goal
  • Running autonomous agents around the clock while still being able to audit and intervene

Key features

  • Agentic task manager with approval and review gates
  • Org chart defining roles, permissions and boundaries for agents
  • Skill Studio for training and evaluating AI employees
  • Cross-provider runtime that works with any model or agent
  • Company, agent and project budget controls with threshold alerts
  • Supports multiple organizations in one deployment
  • Scheduled routines that run recurring work automatically
  • Connects to external services and custom MCP servers
  • Mobile-ready monitoring of agent work from anywhere

Pros and cons

Pros

Open source under the MIT license
Works with many different agents and models instead of locking into one

Cons

Paperclip Cloud is not yet generally available, only a waitlist signup

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