Paperclip Ai Orchestration

If you're building something where multiple AI agents need to work together as an actual organization, this is the framework for it. Paperclip gives you org charts, budgets, goal hierarchies, and cron-style heartbeats so agents wake up, check their task queue, do work, and report costs back to a central API. It's Node.js and React with an embedded Postgres for local dev, and the whole thing is open source from ara.so. The mental model is less "chat with an assistant" and more "run a company where employees happen to be Claude instances with spending limits." Useful if you need governance and audit trails around autonomous agents, overkill if you just want to call an LLM from a script.

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$ npx -y skills add aradotso/trending-skills --skill paperclip-ai-orchestration --agent claude-code

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Paperclip AI Orchestration

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

Paperclip is an open-source Node.js + React platform that runs a company made of AI agents. It provides org charts, goal alignment, ticket-based task management, budget enforcement, heartbeat scheduling, governance, and a full audit log — so you manage business outcomes instead of individual agent sessions.

Installation

Quickstart (recommended)

npx paperclipai onboard --yes

This clones the repo, installs dependencies, seeds an embedded PostgreSQL database, and starts the server.

Manual setup

git clone https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip.git
cd paperclip
pnpm install
pnpm dev

Requirements:

Node.js 20+
pnpm 9.15+

The API server starts at http://localhost:3100. An embedded PostgreSQL database is created automatically — no manual DB setup needed for local development.