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Paperclip is presented as a new open-source control plane for teams of AI agents…

2026-03-04 · 16:57 UTC ·meta_alchemist ·1 min read

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Paperclip is presented as a new open-source control plane for teams of AI agents, aimed at users who have outgrown ad hoc setups like dozens of Claude Code terminals or loosely connected agent scripts. The author argues that instead of building yet another mission-control layer around systems like OpenClaw, developers should build on a shared orchestration foundation that already handles org charts, goal alignment, ticketing, budgets, scheduling, and governance. The linked materials describe Paperclip as a business operating system for autonomous agents: users define a company objective, assign bot roles such as CEO, engineers, or marketers, approve strategy, and then monitor execution, token spend, and audit trails from one dashboard. The project emphasizes persistence across reboots, cost controls to stop runaway loops, and support for running multiple isolated companies in one deployment, making it more of an organizational runtime than a chatbot or agent framework.

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title: @metaalchemist: this agentic team and business orchestrator called Paperclip is blowing up right...
author: metaalchemist
contenttype: twitterpost
published: 2026-03-04T16:57:14+00:00
sourceurl: https://x.com/metaalchemist/status/2029885579715039312/photo/1

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Tweet by @meta_alchemist

this agentic team and business orchestrator called Paperclip is blowing up right now, gained more than 4k+ stars since its launch 2 days ago, and it's free! i've been saying how it was pointless that everyone is trying to spawn a new mission control with Openclaw, and we need a great open source tool that does that great what Paperclip does is exactly that and more, a mission control that is well made with lots of cool features: > it orchestrates a team of AI agents to run a biz > lets you assign goals, and track your agents' work > see the token costs & make them work with budgets > cron jobs, schedulers, and heartbeats included > makes your agents be more efficient and productive also, the UI looks clean and organized why build another mission control, when you can take this and build on top of it the missing features you wanna have? that is why i love open source tooling now, when you use open source, it saves you time, saves tokens, and lets you build what's missing on top of tools that others have already made well save this, and give Paperclip a try for sure! https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip…

Posted: 2026-03-04T16:57:14.000Z
Engagement: 718 likes, 53 retweets, 34 replies

Quoting @dotta

We just open-sourced Paperclip: the orchestration layer for zero-human companies

It's everything you need to run an autonomous business: org charts, goal alignment, task ownership, budgets, agent templates

Just run npx paperclipai onboard

https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip…

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