Agent skill · product strategy · aradotso
paperclip-ai-orchestration
Skill for using Paperclip — open-source orchestration platform for running autonomous AI-agent companies with org charts, budgets, governance, and heartbeats.
Why this skill is useful
Provides executable CLI commands and a structured framework for managing AI agents, which the AI cannot generate from general knowledge.
What it needs
Requires node, pnpm installed locally. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-09. 70 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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) This clones the repo, installs dependencies, seeds an embedded PostgreSQL database, and starts the server. Manual setup 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. Production setup Point Paperclip at an external Postgres instance and object storage via environment variables: --- Key CLI Commands --- Core Concepts Concept Description --- --- Company Top-level namespace. All agents, goals, tasks, and budgets are scoped to a company. Agent An AI worker (OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, HTTP bot, Bash script). Goal Hierarchical business objective. Tasks inherit goal ancestry so agents know the "why". Task / Ticket A unit of work assigned to an agent. Conversations and tool calls are threaded to it. Heartbeat A cron-style schedule that wakes an agent to check for work or perform recurring tasks. Org Chart Hierarchical reporting structure. Agents have managers, direct reports, roles, and titles. Budget Monthly token/cost cap per agent. Atomic enforcement — agent stops when budget exhausted. Governance Approval gates for hires, strategy changes, and config rollbacks. You are the board. --- REST API The Paperclip API is served at http://localhost:3100/api/v1. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills aradotso/paperclip-ai-orchestration