Paperclip

An orchestration app for teams of AI agents that run work like a company, with goals, org charts, budgets, permissions and a dashboard for tasks and costs.

110k stars, 18.2k forks TypeScript On GitHub since March 2026

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What is Paperclip?

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React interface for managing many AI agents as a team. You bring your own agents, give them goals, and track their work and spending from one dashboard. Each agent can use its own model and harness, while tasks, skills, permissions and history stay in one place. Under an interface that looks like a task manager sit org charts, budgets, governance rules and coordination between agents. Its authors put it this way: if OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company.

Good fit if

  • You run several agents on ongoing business work and need budgets and oversight.
  • You want one record of what each agent did and what it cost.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want one coding agent in your terminal: OpenCode.
  • You run several coding agents on the same repository: Orca.

Before you adopt it

Paperclip is MIT-licensed; a hosted cloud is on a waitlist. It is very new, published in March 2026, and its creator writes about three quarters of the code. It runs with PostgreSQL.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Paperclip health: is it still maintained?

69 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    2,680 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 1 November 2026.
    30 / 30
  • Contributors
    3 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 86% of them.
    5 / 20
  • Releases
    15 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v2026.1023.0, on 24 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Too few recent issues from outside the team to measure, so this part gets a neutral score.
    10 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Paperclip license: is it open source?

Paperclip uses MIT, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. March 2026First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayMIT.

How to run Paperclip yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
docker/docker-compose.yml: 2 services (postgres)
Setup effort
2 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
35 languages

Install instructions: paperclip.ing or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Paperclip

Is Paperclip open source?

Yes. Paperclip is published under MIT, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is Paperclip still maintained?

Its health score is 69 of 100 (actively developed). It had 2,680 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 1 November 2026, and its latest release came out on 24 October 2026.

How do I run Paperclip?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Paperclip?

Close alternatives in the AI coding agents category include CC Switch, Orca, Browser Use.