- Workspace restore locks change protocol; stop every old process before upgrading. Restore and agent-file collection locks are now OS-backed SQLite file locks under <instance…
- Stored tool grants are enforced as written. A grant whose scope.allow list does not match a tool, connection, or application no longer falls through to a broader policy; grants with unknown…
- Assistants join your team over MCP — A new "Assistant Connection (MCP)" card in Connections lets Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and generic MCP clients connect to Paperclip through browser OAuth or…
- Chat leads the way — With Agent Chat enabled in the streamlined UI (the default shell), Chat is the first row in the Work navigation, the chat rail lists every eligible agent, and the side panel…
- One catalog for every account — The Connections Apps catalog discovers accounts already connected upstream in Composio, Arcade, and supported Executor gateways and groups them with native accounts…
- Connections carry instructions for agents — A connection can hold editable usage instructions that are delivered to every authorized agent turn across the native runner, legacy adapters, and…
Paperclip
Open-source Node.js server and React app for running a team of AI agents toward a business goal. You define the goal, give agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode or OpenClaw roles in an org chart, set a budget per agent and approve the plan, then follow tasks, costs and an append-only audit log from one dashboard. A hosted Paperclip Cloud is on a waitlist.
Agent orchestration and team workspaces
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 11, 2026Orchestration app for teams of AI agentsOpen source · MITFree to start
Use it in: Web app CLI Self-hosted Works with: MCP Own API key Multi-agent Headless / CI
Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#2 in Orchestration
Gid Score 58 / 100 · #23 of 260 ranked AI agents
Trend
Growing fast
usage up 100.4% over 30 days
Development
Actively updated
latest 2026.1012.0, 9d ago
Community
105K GitHub stars
41.1K package downloads a week
Usage data: latest readings Oct 18 to Oct 21, 2026, last checked Oct 21, 06:38 UTC. Date of each number
What Paperclip does
Paperclip is an orchestration app for teams of AI agents from Paperclip, first released in March 2026. You use it through web app, a command-line tool and self-hosted. Its documentation covers MCP servers, subagents or parallel agents, a non-interactive mode for scripts and CI and your own API key. It can run models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and OpenRouter. It is free and open source (MIT); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | Paperclip |
|---|---|
| Type | Orchestration app for teams of AI agents |
| First released | March 2026 |
| License | MIT |
| Interfaces | Web app, CLI, Self-hosted |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 6,313 |
Pricing
Free and open source (MIT), self-hosted. Paperclip Cloud has a waitlist and no public price.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 11, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (MIT)
- Where you use itWeb app, CLI, Self-hosted
- Supports MCP?Yes
- Model providersanthropic, openai, google, openrouter
- Subagents / multi-agent?Yes
- Runs in scripts / CI?Yes
- Feature comparisonAll agents
- Closest alternativeSymphony · all alternatives
AgentGid articles about Paperclip
Get started with Paperclip
| npm | npm install -g paperclipai |
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Paperclip alternatives
Best Paperclip alternatives compared · All agent orchestration and team workspaces
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | Stars | Latest release | Price | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 |
SymphonyOpenAI |
76 | — | — | — | 27.8K+15/day | 0.0.336d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 36 |
|
51 | — | — | — | 100K+1,211/day | 1.4.235yesterday | Free (OSS) | |||
| 53 |
|
46 | 43.1K | down 45.5% | up 9.9% | 78K+497/day | 3.59.6today | Free (OSS) | |||
| 71 |
BuzzBlock |
43 | — | — | — | 36.2K+42/day | 0.5.2812d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 73 |
MulticaIndex Labs (Hong Kong) Limited |
42 | — | — | — | 53.4K+98/day | 0.6.4yesterday | Free | |||
| 89 |
cmuxmanaflow-ai |
39 | — | — | — | 28.3K+30/day | 0.65.25d ago | Free + $50/mo | |||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
Head to head: Paperclip vs Symphony · Paperclip vs Orca · Paperclip vs Ruflo · Paperclip vs Buzz · Paperclip vs Multica
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Paperclip news
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Paperclip downloads down 44% in a week
29.9K npm and PyPI downloads in the 7 days to Oct 15, against 53.5K the week before.
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Paperclip 2026.1012.0 released
Workspace restore locks change protocol; stop every old process before upgrading. Restore and agent-file collection locks are now OS-backed SQLite file locks under <instance…; Stored tool grants are enforced as written. A grant whose scope.allow list does…
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Paperclip passes 100K GitHub stars
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10 agents added to AgentGid
Paperclip, Graphify, Agent-Reach, ECC, OpenMontage, Ruflo, OmniRoute, Claude Mem, Ragflow, Openhuman
What changed: recent Paperclip releases
10 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- Operator UI snippet injection is removed. The PAPERCLIPCLOUDUISNIPPET and PAPERCLIPCLOUDUISNIPPETB64 settings no longer inject HTML into static or development pages. Operators who relied on them…
- Keyboard shortcuts are always on, and their settings are gone. The instance-wide General toggle and the per-user Profile preference are both removed, along with the GET/PATCH /api/auth/preferences…
- @-mentioning an agent no longer starts a run. Mentions in task comments are kept as context for the assignee; only explicit assignment and review requests start work. Workflows that used a mention…
- Grok Build on the native runner — Grok Build joins the Paperclip Runner through ACP for both local and Daytona execution, with separate subscription-login and API-key credential paths and governed…
- Agents keep their own files — An agent's directory (AGENTS.md and its supporting files) now persists across tasks and sessions and is shared with the Instructions Editor; concurrent runs apply…
- Skills synced from GitHub — Skills gains a Sources tab: pick a repository through an existing GitHub connection, choose which skill folders to import, and refresh on demand. Installed snapshots…
Earlier releases
- The legacy Composio broker is retired. The API-key catalog method, broker clients, session creation, account synchronization, child lifecycle and toolkit routes, and the Services tab are all…
- Execution harnesses now default to full auto. Native runs default Claude/ACPX to approve-all, OpenCode to allow, and Codex to approval-and-sandbox bypass, and the legacy adapters follow the same…
- Agents get faces — Static persona images replace agent icons across lists, the sidebar, org charts, tasks, comments, selectors, activity, and dashboards, with one animated pointer-following…
- Agents review your pull requests — A guided setup turns a Paperclip agent into a GitHub review bot: a copyable Claude/Codex prompt walks through App installation, review scheduling, and optional…
- Approvals and answers queue during active runs — Responding to a question or approval while the agent is mid-run no longer bounces: resolved cards project into the run queue as immutable…
- Slack setup, rebuilt — Onboarding splits into six clickable steps with a generated creation link and read-only manifest, credential validation, live account-link status, and a mention-based…
- The chat composer's send button no longer starts out disabled on desktop. The task page disables the composer while it checks whether the task is paused, and in React Query v5 that pending state…
- Duplicate document inserts wrapped by the ORM are classified as retryable conflicts again, instead of surfacing as opaque database errors; unrelated database failures keep their original identity.…
- No migrations, no configuration changes, no API changes. Upgrade in place.
- Cheap model profiles are removed. The second execution mode that let recovery and overrides run on a cheaper model is gone from adapter metadata, agent runtime configuration, task overrides,…
- Agent APIs no longer return plaintext credentials. Every endpoint that serializes an agent — detail reads, the company agent list, and create/update/lifecycle routes — used to echo…
- Automatic productivity reviews are retired. The detector that turned run counts, comment counts, and elapsed time into management-review tasks is deleted along with its continuation holds —…
- X-Forwarded-Host is only honored from a trusted proxy. The same-origin guard used to accept a forwarded host from any direct client, letting a caller promote its own header into the trusted-origin…
- Anthropic's legacy REST connection option is gone, and REST tool connections are validated as REST. The obsolete REST setup path is removed in favor of the supported AI-account flow, and stdio…
- AI credentials live in Connections now — Provider sign-ins stop being per-agent configuration and become managed accounts with the ownership, grants, and access permissions Connections already…
- Onboarding no longer gets stuck on the organization step. On the first onboarding screen ("What is the name of your organization?"), clicking Continue created the organization on the server but…
- No migrations, no configuration changes, no API changes. Upgrade in place.
Paperclip prices over time
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Paperclip popularity and usage data
Paperclip was downloaded 41.1K times from npm in the week ending Oct 18, 2026, down 13.0% on the week before and up 100.4% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 105K stars, 24,549 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2026.1012.0, published Oct 12, 2026; there were 4 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 104 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: paperclip.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption36
Community84
Attention47
Momentum100
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| Package downloads | Oct 18, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:30 UTC |
| GitHub stars | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:32 UTC |
| Website rank (Tranco) | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:38 UTC |
| Hacker News mentions | Oct 20, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:33 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Paperclip FAQ
How much does Paperclip cost?
Free and open source (MIT), self-hosted. Paperclip Cloud has a waitlist and no public price.
Is Paperclip open source?
Yes. Paperclip is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Paperclip?
Paperclip was downloaded 41.1K times from npm in the week ending Oct 18, 2026, down 13.0% on the week before and up 100.4% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 105K stars, 24,549 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 2026.1012.0, published Oct 12, 2026; there were 4 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Paperclip?
The latest stable release we track is 2026.1012.0, published on Oct 12, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Paperclip?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are Symphony, Orca, Ruflo, Buzz.
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Where these numbers come from
npm: paperclipai. GitHub: paperclipai/paperclip. Site rank: paperclip.ing on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: paperclip.ing, github.com, npmjs.com.