With over 77,000 GitHub stars accumulated in under five months since its March 2026 launch, Paperclip has become the default control plane for teams running multiple AI agents in production. Rather than juggling dozens of terminal tabs with Claude Code sessions, Codex instances, and Gemini CLI workers, Paperclip organizes all agents into a company structure with org charts, reporting lines, role-based permissions, and per-agent monthly budgets that trigger hard-stops when exceeded. The platform supports any runtime through its adapter system — Process adapters manage local CLI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and OpenCode as child processes, while HTTP adapters trigger remote agents via webhooks to OpenClaw, serverless platforms, or custom endpoints. Heartbeat-based execution wakes agents on configurable schedules, injecting goal context, budget state, and workspace paths directly into the invocation payload. The Work and Task System provides atomic checkout with execution locks, first-class blocker dependencies, and structured work products to eliminate duplicate effort. Governance features include approval workflows, decision tracking, emergency stops, and full audit trails tracing every mutation to an actor. Deployment runs as a single Node.js process with embedded PostgreSQL locally or scales to external Postgres for production, installable in one command via npx paperclipai onboard. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.