Paperclip
Paperclip Overview
Paperclip is an open-source orchestration platform from Paperclip Labs, Inc. for managing teams of AI agents at work — a Node.js server and React UI that runs autonomous agent companies with org charts, budgets, governance, and goal alignment.
- Bring Your Own Agent: Connect any agent runtime — OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, bash CLI, or HTTP/webhook bots — into one unified org chart.
- Goal Alignment: Every task traces back to company mission; agents always know what to do and why through full goal ancestry.
- Heartbeat Execution: Agents wake on schedules or event triggers, check out tasks atomically, and resume persistent context across runs.
- Cost Control: Monthly token budgets per agent with warning thresholds and hard stops — runaway spend pauses agents automatically.
- Multi-Company Isolation: One deployment runs unlimited companies with complete data separation and per-company audit trails.
- Ticket & Audit System: Threaded conversations, tool-call tracing, immutable activity logs, and blocker dependencies on every issue.
- Governance & Approvals: Board approval workflows, agent pause/resume/terminate, execution policies, and revisioned config with rollback.
- Self-Hosted Quickstart: Launch with
npx paperclipai onboard --yes— embedded PostgreSQL, API atlocalhost:3100, no Paperclip account required.