Paperclip
Paperclip is an open-source app that manages a team of AI agents, tracking their tasks, budgets, and org chart for business owners and developers.
What it is good for
- Tracking many AI coding agents working on different tasks at once
- Setting budgets and monitoring costs for AI agents
- Assigning business goals to a team of AI agents and reviewing their work
- Keeping AI agent conversations and task history in one place
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Slack
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked (last #98, week 42, 2026)
- Best rank
- #30 week 40, 2026
- GitHub stars
- 110,049
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Ranking history
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Paperclip free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Paperclip?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Paperclip work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and Slack.
- What is Paperclip good for?
- Tracking many AI coding agents working on different tasks at once, setting budgets and monitoring costs for AI agents, assigning business goals to a team of AI agents and reviewing their work, and keeping AI agent conversations and task history in one place.
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