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.