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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.  |

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    <td align="center" valign="top"><img src="doc/assets/logos/openclaw.svg" width="32" height="32" alt="OpenClaw" /><br/><sub>OpenClaw</sub></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><img src="doc/assets/logos/claude.svg" width="32" height="32" alt="Claude Code" /><br/><sub>Claude Code</sub></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><img src="ui/public/brands/codex-color.svg" width="32" height="32" alt="Codex" /><br/><sub>Codex</sub></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="ui/public/brands/adapters/cursor-dark.svg" /><img src="ui/public/brands/adapters/cursor.svg" width="32" height="32" alt="Cursor and Cursor Cloud" /></picture><br/><sub>Cursor<br/>+ Cloud</sub></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><img src="ui/public/brands/adapters/gemini-color.svg" width="32" height="32" alt="Gemini CLI" /><br/><sub>Gemini CLI</sub></td>
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    <td align="center" valign="top"><picture><source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="ui/public/brands/adapters/pi-dark.svg" /><img src="ui/public/brands/adapters/pi.svg" width="32" height="32" alt="Pi" /></picture><br/><sub>Pi</sub></td>
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<em>If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.</em>

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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.

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## 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**

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## 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.

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| 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 |

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## Features

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<h3>🔌 Bring Your Own Agent</h3>
Any agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.
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<h3>🎯 Goal Alignment</h3>
Link tasks and projects to your organization goals. Agents receive the goal context behind their work.
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<h3>💓 Heartbeats</h3>
Agents wake for assigned work, follow-up messages, or configured schedules. Delegation flows up and down the org chart.
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<h3>💰 Cost Control</h3>
Company, agent, and project <a href="https://docs.paperclip.ing/guides/day-to-day/costs/">budgets</a>. Track reported spend, get threshold alerts, and pause work at configured limits.
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<h3>🏢 Multi-Organization</h3>
One deployment, many organizations. Separate tasks, agents, permissions, and activity histories for each.
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<h3>🎫 Task Threads</h3>
Keep conversations, plans, blockers, files, and run history attached to the work. Assign tasks to agents or people.
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<h3>🛡️ Governance</h3>
Configure <a href="https://docs.paperclip.ing/guides/day-to-day/approvals/">review and approval stages</a>, approve hires, and pause, reassign, or stop work when needed.
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<h3>📊 Org Chart</h3>
Hierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description.
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<h3>📱 Mobile Ready</h3>
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