Paperclip

• Running Claude Code and Codex agents as an engineering team with a lead agent that breaks goals into tickets and delegates them
• Capping each agent's monthly spend so a looping agent pauses instead of burning through API credits
• Scheduling heartbeat-driven agents for recurring content, QA, or research work and reviewing their audit trails
• Requiring board approval before an agent hires another agent or executes a new strategy
• Giving agents their own AgentMail inboxes so incoming email becomes assigned work
• Hosting one Paperclip server on a VPS behind Tailscale to manage agents for several separate projects or companies

About Paperclip

Paperclip does not build or replace agents; it manages the ones you already use. You set up a company with a mission and goals, hire agents into an org chart with roles and reporting lines, and assign work as tickets. Agents wake up on scheduled heartbeats, pick up their tasks, and delegate up or down the hierarchy, while recurring routines cover repeat work. Every instruction, response, tool call, and decision is recorded in an append-only log attached to the ticket, and you act as the board: you approve new hires and strategy, and you can pause, resume, override, reassign, or terminate any agent. Each agent has a monthly budget, costs are tracked per agent, task, project, and goal, and agents pause automatically when they hit their limit. Adapters cover Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes, Pi, Grok, and Kimi Code, GitHub Copilot connects as a native harness, and generic process and HTTP adapters connect custom agents, following the project's rule: if it can receive a heartbeat, it can be hired. The September 2026 release (v2026.916.0) moved AI credentials such as Claude and Codex subscriptions and API keys into a Connections store, gave each person their own GitHub identity, and added email inboxes for agents through AgentMail plus experimental chat connectors. Later releases added private tasks and projects, routing agents through your own model gateway (OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock, Google Gemini, or a compatible API endpoint), and budgets that hold an agent while its usage cannot be priced, and v2026.1106.0 (November 6, 2026) made the native Paperclip Runner the default for new Claude, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi agents on macOS and Linux. Paperclip runs as a Node.js server and React UI with embedded PostgreSQL on your own machine, or on a server behind Tailscale or a public URL with login. The tradeoffs: there is no hosted version yet (the site has a waitlist, and cloud deployments are listed as in progress on the roadmap); since v2026.1001.0 the agent harnesses default to full auto, so Claude, Codex, and OpenCode skip their own permission prompts unless you set a restrictive mode and Paperclip's approvals and budgets are the main guardrail; it supplies no models, so your agents' subscriptions and API usage are the real cost, and it only adds value if you already run several agents worth coordinating.