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 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. Choose models and harnesses per agent while keeping your team's tasks, skills, permissions, and history in one place.

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.  |





  
    Workswith
    OpenClaw
    Claude Code
    Codex
    Cursor+ Cloud
    Gemini CLI
  
  
    OpenCode
    Pi
    Hermes+ Gateway
    Grok Build
    Kimi Code
  


If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.



Custom processes, HTTP endpoints, and external adapter packages extend the roster. See the adapter overview for setup and capabilities.



 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 · connection p

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Latest release

Paperclip v2026.1106.0

 Released: 2026-11-06

Paperclip v2026.1106.0 carries 515 commits, promoted from 2026.1023.0-beta.0. The headline is that the Paperclip Runner is now the default for new agents: new Claude, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi agents start on the native Runner on qualified macOS and Linux hosts, existing agents get a one-click "Upgrade runner" action, and GitHub Copilot joins as a native harness. Around that: project repositories that automatically become skill sources, model-backed prompt injection prevention, agent observability to Braintrust or any OTLP endpoint, a unified Google