paperclip
by paperclipai
Paperclip is a self-hosted Node.js server with a web dashboard that lets you organise several AI agents into a team, give them goals and tasks, and track their work and costs. It is for people who run many AI coding or task agents and want one place to manage budgets, permissions and history.
- Stars
- 107.6k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- TypeScript
- Age
- 238 days
What you can do with it
- Set a business goal and assign tasks to a team of AI agents such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
- Set budgets and monitor what each agent costs from one dashboard
- Review agent work, approve steps and keep a history of tasks, skills and permissions
Make money with it
A freelancer could use it to run a small team of AI agents delivering software or content projects for clients, and charge for the finished work.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Coordinate several AI coding agents on a product build so one person can oversee work that would otherwise need a small team
- Run recurring agent tasks such as marketing drafts or support triage with budget limits so costs stay predictable
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
It is a Node.js server with a React interface that you run yourself, and the README points to a quickstart and docs, though the install steps were cut off in the text provided.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Needs the agents you connect, such as Claude Code or Codex, and these usually need paid subscriptions or API keys
- Running agents autonomously 24/7 can cost a lot if budgets are not set
- Autonomous agents acting on a business need careful permission settings and review
- Install steps could not be checked because the README was truncated
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
