Paperclip is an open-source app for running a team of AI agents like a small company: you give them goals, roles and budgets, then follow their work and spending in one place.
In plain words
Paperclip treats coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor as staff. You set a goal, place agents on an org chart with roles and reporting lines, and give tasks to agents or people. Agents wake when work is assigned, when someone follows up, or on a schedule, and each task carries the goal behind it. Budgets can cover a company, an agent or a project; Paperclip warns you near a limit and can pause work there. It is a Node.js server under the MIT licence.
A quick example
Imagine you want a small website built. You set that as the goal, add one agent as the lead and two as developers, give each a spending cap, and then check the dashboard to see which tasks are finished and what each agent has spent.
Where you'll meet it
- Coordinating several coding agents on one software project.
- Keeping track of what AI agents spend, and pausing them at a set limit.
Related
Sources
- Docspaperclipai/paperclip, GitHub · read 2 Nov 2026
- DocsPaperclip Docs, Paperclip · read 2 Nov 2026
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