What is paperclip AGENTS.md?

A contributor guide for Paperclip, a control plane for companies that use AI agents. It explains the repository structure, required documents, development setup, and special procedures for adding integrations.

Use it as the starting instructions for work in the Paperclip repository, especially when changing application code or catalog connections.

It helps contributors find the right specifications and follow the project's expected process before changing code.

paperclip AGENTS.md — Instructions file for Codex and OpenCode by paperclipai: A contributor guide for Paperclip, a control plane for…

About the project

Paperclip is a Node.js server and React application for coordinating AI agents as a business team, with goals, organizational roles, budgets, governance, and work tracking in one interface. It is used by people managing multiple agents or autonomous agent organizations across tools such as OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The catalogue includes skills, agents, an MCP add-on, and an instruction for working with Paperclip.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods

npx agentmods add instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 2,380 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,380 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan C 2 findings. Scan, not verified.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.02380	$0.02380
Opus 5	$0.01190	$0.01190
Sonnet 5	$0.00476	$0.00476
Haiku 4.5	$0.00238	$0.00238

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9bac93aa6784, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

paperclip AGENTS.md scanned grade C with 2 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 5d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf data/pglite

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl http://localhost:3100/api/health

AGENTS.md · 221 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 221 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for human and AI contributors working in this repository.

1. Purpose

Paperclip is a control plane for AI-agent companies. The current implementation target is V1 and is defined in doc/SPEC-implementation.md.

2. Read This First

Before making changes, read in this order:

doc/GOAL.md
doc/PRODUCT.md
doc/SPEC-implementation.md
doc/DEVELOPING.md
doc/DATABASE.md

doc/SPEC.md is long-horizon product context. doc/SPEC-implementation.md is the concrete V1 build contract.

When adding or changing an Apps catalog connection, also follow doc/connections/CONNECTOR-PLAYBOOK.md. It is the canonical connection authoring runbook for provider research, supported transport/auth patterns, credential handling, branding, implementation, testing, live proof, and PR submission.

3. Repo Map

server/: Express REST API and orchestration services
ui/: React + Vite board UI
packages/db/: Drizzle schema, migrations, DB clients
packages/shared/: shared types, constants, validators, API path constants
packages/adapters/: agent adapter implementations (Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.)
packages/adapter-utils/: shared adapter utilities
packages/plugins/: plugin system packages
packages/skills-catalog/: app-shipped skills catalog (@paperclipai/skills-catalog)
packages/teams-catalog/: app-shipped teams catalog (@paperclipai/teams-catalog)
cli/: paperclipai CLI package (published bin, agent-facing commands)
skills/: Paperclip runtime/operational skills (not part of the app catalog)
doc/: operational and product docs

4. Dev Setup (Auto DB)

Use embedded PGlite in dev by leaving DATABASE_URL unset.

pnpm install
pnpm dev

This starts:

API: http://localhost:3100
UI: http://localhost:3100 (served by API server in dev middleware mode)

Quick checks:

curl http://localhost:3100/api/health
curl http://localhost:3100/api/companies

Reset local dev DB:

rm -rf data/pglite
pnpm dev

Read the full file on GitHub · 221 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

5d ago First seen · 221 lines · 2,380 tokens per session scan C 9bac93aa6784

Subscribe to this mod's changes

paperclip AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (80,021 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,380 tokens to every session, about $0.0119 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

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