Paperclip
Paperclip
Open source control plane for orchestrating persistent AI agent teams, budgets, and approvals.
Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale
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 earlier-stage than the established agent registry and management suites.
Where it sits in the stack
Listed under Registry & management in the Control plane layer. Also covers Workflows & orchestration.
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)
SourceEU AI Act obligations
Risk tier: Not applicable · as of 2026-10-10Source-backed information mapped from Paperclip's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.
This record's EU AI Act risk tier is marked not applicable, so no tier-specific obligations attach. Deployers embedding it in an AI system in scope of the Act should assess that system's own tier.
Change history
Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.
- Release
Paperclip v2026.1005.0 adds Grok Build on the native runner, persistent agent files, GitHub skill sync and two-way Slack. Breaking: @-mentioning an agent no longer starts a run.
Release v2026.1005.0 · paperclipai/paperclip - ReleaseHigh impact
Paperclip v2026.817.0 delivered its first stable release through the new canary-to-stable channels, adding a first-class decisions workflow, full-fidelity company import/export, and managed CLI installation.
Release v2026.817.0 · paperclipai/paperclip - Release
Paperclip v2026.707.0 added user-specific runtime secrets and other workflow/runtime updates across 89 commits.
Release v2026.707.0 · paperclipai/paperclip - ReleaseHigh impact
Paperclip v2026.626.0 made Hermes a built-in local and remote gateway adapter, added task watchdogs for long-running agent work, and surfaced sandbox runtime status directly in issue threads.
Release v2026.626.0 · paperclipai/paperclip - ReleaseHigh impact
Paperclip v2026.618.0 added a Skills Store, self-hostable Kubernetes sandbox execution, per-company tenant isolation, workspace artifact viewing, and opt-in OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
Release v2026.618.0 · paperclipai/paperclip - Release
Paperclip v2026.428.0 added pause/resume controls for agents in the sidebar and improved handling for long issue threads, extending day-2 control-plane usability.
Release v2026.428.0 · paperclipai/paperclip · GitHub - Auto-detectedlastRelease: 2026-08-17 → 2026-10-05
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