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

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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. |

Works with	_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](https://docs.paperclip.ing/reference/adapters/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. The four pillars of Paperclip

| 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 permissions & responsible-user identities | | **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 · saved test inputs · skill version history & restore · reusable team templates | | **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 · personal & shared app connections · run history & opt-in tracing |
## Features

🔌 Bring Your Own Agent Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.	🎯 Goal Alignment Link tasks and projects to your organization goals. Agents receive the goal context behind their work.	💓 Heartbeats Agents wake for assigned work, follow-up messages, or configured schedules. Delegation flows up and down the org chart.
💰 Cost Control Company, agent, and project budgets. Track reported spend, get threshold alerts, and pause work at configured limits.	🏢 Multi-Organization One deployment, many organizations. Separate tasks, agents, permissions, and activity histories for each.	🎫 Task Threads Keep conversations, plans, blockers, files, and run history attached to the work. Assign tasks to agents or people.
🛡️ Governance Configure review and approval stages, approve hires, and pause, reassign, or stop work when needed.	📊 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.
🔗 Apps & Connections Connect services such as GitHub, Notion, and Railway, or your own MCP server. Set gateway actions to Allowed, Ask first, or Off.	👥 Shared Agents, Personal Accounts Choose who can use a connection and which agents can access it. Managed GitHub operations can use the account of the person directing the work.	🧠 Skills & Skill Studio Install or write shared skills, test them with saved inputs, inspect results, and restore earlier versions.
📅 Scheduled Routines Run recurring work on a schedule or trigger it through an API or webhook. Each run has a task, an owner, and a history.	📎 Artifacts & Feedback Find the files and documents agents produce. Preview supported formats and leave comments on specific passages in documents.	📦 Ready-Made Teams Preview and install teams with roles, skills, projects, and routines. Choose their runtimes and make the setup your own.

Experimental **Agent Chat** and **chat/email connectors** add conversations with agents in Paperclip and through configured services such as Slack, Discord, Telegram, and AgentMail. Enable the relevant instance settings to try them.
## 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. | ✅ Spend tracking, budget alerts, and automatic pauses help you control the cost of ongoing work. | | ❌ You have recurring jobs (customer support, social, reports) and have to remember to manually kick them off. | ✅ Routines create assigned tasks on a schedule, with outputs and run history you can inspect. | | ❌ 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 task checkout.** | A single assignee and execution locks prevent competing runs from claiming the same task. | | **Persistent work context.** | Tasks, comments, and documents stay in Paperclip. Supporting adapters resume saved sessions across runs. | | **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. | | **Accountable connections.** | Human access, agent eligibility, and gateway action permissions are separate controls. Approve a call once or save a revocable rule. | | **Goal-aware execution.** | Linked tasks and projects carry goal ancestry so agents see the "why," not just a title. | | **Portable company templates.** | Export/import orgs, agents, and skills with secret scrubbing and collision handling. | | **Organization boundaries.** | Company-scoped access checks keep each organization's work, agents, and activity separate within one deployment. |
## 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), human roles and permissions, agent API keys, short-lived run JWTs, company memberships, and invite flows. Responsible-user attribution follows work through delegation and supported managed connections.	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.
Work & Task System — Issues carry company/project/goal/parent links, atomic checkout with execution locks, first-class blocker dependencies, comments, documents, attachments, work products, labels, and inbox state. Search across work, review document revisions, and leave anchored feedback.	Heartbeat Execution — DB-backed wakeup queue with coalescing, budget checks, workspace resolution, secret injection, skill loading, and adapter invocation. Runs produce logs, usage records, and adapter-specific session state. Bounded recovery handles supported failures and surfaces cases that need human action.
Workspaces & Runtime — Project repositories and workspaces, optional isolated execution workspaces (git worktrees, operator branches), and runtime services (dev servers, preview URLs). Sandbox providers extend execution beyond the local host; availability depends on the configured environment and adapter.	Governance & Approvals — Board approval workflows, execution policies with review/approval stages, decision tracking, budget hard-stops, and agent pause/resume/terminate. Configured task reviews govern completion; connection action approvals govern calls through the tool gateway.
Budget & Cost Control — Token and cost tracking by company, agent, project, goal, issue, provider, and model. Scoped budget policies with warning thresholds and hard stops. Enforcement uses recorded spend; usage reporting and in-flight work can delay a stop.

原始来源：https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip#readme

Identity & Access — Two deployment modes (trusted local or authenticated), human roles and permissions, agent API keys, short-lived run JWTs, company memberships, and invite flows. Responsible-user attribution follows work through delegation and supported managed connections.	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.
Work & Task System — Issues carry company/project/goal/parent links, atomic checkout with execution locks, first-class blocker dependencies, comments, documents, attachments, work products, labels, and inbox state. Search across work, review document revisions, and leave anchored feedback.	Heartbeat Execution — DB-backed wakeup queue with coalescing, budget checks, workspace resolution, secret injection, skill loading, and adapter invocation. Runs produce logs, usage records, and adapter-specific session state. Bounded recovery handles supported failures and surfaces cases that need human action.
Workspaces & Runtime — Project repositories and workspaces, optional isolated execution workspaces (git worktrees, operator branches), and runtime services (dev servers, preview URLs). Sandbox providers extend execution beyond the local host; availability depends on the configured environment and adapter.	Governance & Approvals — Board approval workflows, execution policies with review/approval stages, decision tracking, budget hard-stops, and agent pause/resume/terminate. Configured task reviews govern completion; connection action approvals govern calls through the tool gateway.
Budget & Cost Control — Token and cost tracking by company, agent, project, goal, issue, provider, and model. Scoped budget policies with warning thresholds and hard stops. Enforcement uses recorded spend; usage reporting and in-flight work can delay a stop.

paperclip

🔌 Bring Your Own Agent

🎯 Goal Alignment

💓 Heartbeats

💰 Cost Control

🏢 Multi-Organization

🎫 Task Threads

🛡️ Governance

📊 Org Chart

📱 Mobile Ready

🔗 Apps & Connections

👥 Shared Agents, Personal Accounts

🧠 Skills & Skill Studio

📅 Scheduled Routines

📎 Artifacts & Feedback

📦 Ready-Made Teams