Paperclip
Paperclip
Open source control plane for orchestrating persistent AI agent teams, budgets, and approvals.
Strengths
- Persistent multi-agent control plane
- Built-in budgets and governance
- Human approval gates
Practitioner note
Interesting control-plane option when budgets, approvals, and persistent agent operations matter, but still earlier than more established workflow stacks.
Governance posture
Reviewed 2026-05-26Fully self-hosted; data stays on customer infrastructure (embedded/external Postgres).
SourceSelf-hosted only (Node.js + Postgres); no vendor-managed cloud. (self-hosted)
SourceNo dedicated audit-log subsystem documented; OSS codebase is auditable.
No vendor-managed cloud; SOC 2 falls on the customer's hosting environment.
Customer-operated; no managed service to certify.
Tooling component; customer-operated.
Open-source agent control-plane component, not an AI model/provider. (role: not-applicable)
MIT — permissive, OSI-approved. (low)
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