paperclipai/paperclip

An open-source "AI agent management dashboard": a Node.js service with a React interface that organizes agents like Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, and Gemini CLI into a "company" with organizational structure, goals, tasks, budgets, and approvals; it looks like a task manager where you set goals, approve plans, and monitor progress and costs.

2026-11-03T01:39:37Z

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Reasons

Solves the problem of "having 20 Claude Code terminals open simultaneously, not knowing what each is doing, and losing everything on restart": tasks exist as tickets, conversations are linked by task, and sessions persist across restarts; execution locks ensure the same task isn't picked up by two agents at once
Agents are awakened by "heartbeats": they run only when there are assigned tasks, new messages, or scheduled rules; budgets can be set by company, agent, or project, with alerts or automatic pauses when thresholds are exceeded; approval steps and configuration versions are rollback-capable, and each external action in the tool gateway can be set to allow, ask first, or disable
The README states that 2700 PRs have been merged; it also includes a skill studio, scheduled routine tasks, organization template import/export (which strips secret values), and multi-organization isolation

Usage

Requires Node.js 24.11+; run npx paperclipai@latest onboard --yes for one-click installation, which by default runs only on the local loopback address; to access from a LAN or Tailscale, add --bind lan or --bind tailnet to enter login-required mode
Try it out: ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY=... npx paperclipai test-drive (or use OPENAI\_API\_KEY with --harness codex), which creates a temporary instance with a "CEO agent" and opens the browser
Run from source: after git clone, run pnpm install && pnpm dev; the interface and API use http://localhost:3100，自带嵌入式 PostgreSQL

Risks

Agents can run autonomously for 24 hours, continuously consuming model credits; the README notes that budgets are enforced based on recorded spending, so usage reporting and in-progress tasks may delay pauses
Although exported organization packages strip secret values, they may still contain plaintext environment variables and local paths; check them before sharing; the README includes a waitlist for a cloud version; the license is MIT, and the repository was created in 2026 3

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