What is paperclip-surfers CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for Paperclip, an open-source control panel for companies run by AI agents, including its commands, architecture documents, and development setup.

Working on Paperclip’s API and user interface, reading its product and implementation plans, running development mode, building workspaces, checking TypeScript, running tests, and generating database migrations.

They help an agent understand the project before changing code and provide the commands needed to install, run, build, type-check, test, and manage its embedded database.

How IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers configures Claude Code

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CLAUDE.md · 106 lines

How it starts

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CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What is Paperclip

Paperclip is an open-source control plane for AI-agent companies. It provides org charts, task management, budgets, governance, approval gates, and activity tracking for autonomous AI agents. The current implementation target is V1, defined in doc/SPEC-implementation.md.

Before making changes, read: doc/GOAL.md → doc/PRODUCT.md → doc/SPEC-implementation.md → doc/DEVELOPING.md → doc/DATABASE.md.

Commands

# Install & run dev (embedded PGlite, no DATABASE_URL needed)
pnpm install
pnpm dev                    # API + UI at http://localhost:3100 (watch mode)
pnpm dev:once               # Same but no file watching
pnpm dev:server             # API only
pnpm dev:ui                 # UI only

# Build & verify
pnpm build                  # Build all workspaces
pnpm -r typecheck           # TypeScript check all workspaces
pnpm test:run               # Run all tests once (vitest)
pnpm test                   # Run tests in watch mode

# Database
pnpm db:generate            # Generate Drizzle migration after schema changes
pnpm db:migrate             # Apply pending migrations

# E2E
pnpm test:e2e               # Playwright end-to-end tests

# Single test file
pnpm vitest run path/to/test.ts

Verification before hand-off — all three must pass:

pnpm -r typecheck && pnpm test:run && pnpm build

Monorepo Structure

pnpm workspaces. Build order matters — dependencies must build before dependents.

Package	Purpose
`packages/db`	Drizzle ORM schema (61 tables), migrations, DB client. Uses compiled `dist/schema/*.js` for drizzle-kit.
`packages/shared`	Types, Zod validators, constants, API path constants. No runtime logic. Used by all workspaces.
`packages/adapter-utils`	Shared adapter utilities
`packages/adapters/*`	7 agent adapters (claude, codex, cursor, gemini, openclaw, opencode, pi). Each exports `./server`, `./ui`, `./cli`.
`packages/plugins/sdk`	Stable plugin SDK (protocol, types, UI hooks, testing)
`server`	Express 5 REST API, orchestration services, WebSocket realtime, auth, file storage
`ui`	React 19 + Vite 6 + Tailwind 4 + React Router 7 + TanStack Query board UI
`cli`	`paperclipai` npm CLI, built with esbuild + Commander.js

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

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paperclip-surfers CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository IncomeStreamSurfer/paperclip-surfers (74 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,152 tokens to every session, about $0.0058 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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