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GOAL.md defines Paperclip as a control plane for AI agent companies. PRODUCT.md details core concepts: companies, agents with SOUL.md/HEARTBEAT.md, hierarchical task management, and agent execution modes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Paperclip
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Build software to manage a zero-human company where all employees are AI agents.
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## The Problem
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Task management software doesn't go far enough. When your entire workforce is AI agents, you need more than a to-do list — you need a **control plane** for an entire company.
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## What This Is
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Paperclip is the command, communication, and control plane for a company of AI agents. It is the single place where you:
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- **Manage agents as employees** — hire, organize, and track who does what
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- **Define org structure** — org charts that agents themselves operate within
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- **Track work in real time** — see at any moment what every agent is working on
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- **Control costs** — token salary budgets per agent, spend tracking, burn rate
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- **Align to goals** — agents see how their work serves the bigger mission
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- **Store company knowledge** — a shared brain for the organization
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## Architecture
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Two layers:
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### 1. Control Plane (this software)
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The central nervous system. Manages:
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- Agent registry and org chart
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- Task assignment and status
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- Budget and token spend tracking
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- Company knowledge base
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- Goal hierarchy (company → team → agent → task)
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- Heartbeat monitoring — know when agents are alive, idle, or stuck
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### 2. Execution Services (adapters)
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Agents run externally and report into the control plane. An agent is just Python code that gets kicked off and does work. Adapters connect different execution environments:
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- **OpenClaw** — initial adapter target
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- **Heartbeat loop** — simple custom Python that loops, checks in, does work
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- **Others** — any runtime that can call an API
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The control plane doesn't run agents. It orchestrates them. Agents run wherever they run and phone home.
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## Core Principle
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You should be able to look at Paperclip and understand your entire company at a glance — who's doing what, how much it costs, and whether it's working.
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