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.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to paperclipai/paperclip. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/paperclipai/paperclip/master/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclipWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/paperclipai/paperclip/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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 5.1 | $0.02944 | $0.02944 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.01178 | $0.01178 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00589 | $0.00589 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00294 | $0.00294 |
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 11d 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 How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 262 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.mddoc/PRODUCT.mddoc/SPEC-implementation.mddoc/DEVELOPING.mddoc/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.
Scoped repository rules
Before editing or reviewing files, read the matching rules in rules/*.mdc.
Each rule has Markdown content and YAML frontmatter: globs contains
comma-separated, repository-relative file patterns, and alwaysApply: true
means the rule applies throughout the repository. Read all rules whose scope
matches the affected files. These rules supplement this file and any applicable
nested AGENTS.md instructions.
For server/src/services/chat-channels.ts and everything under
server/src/services/chat-channels/, read
rules/chat-channel-platform-boundaries.mdc.
For server/src/services/heartbeat.ts, server/src/services/heartbeat/,
heartbeat-prefixed sibling services, and heartbeat regression tests, read
rules/heartbeat-execution-boundaries.mdc.
See rules/README.md for rule authoring and Greptile setup.
3. Repo Map
server/: Express REST API and orchestration servicesui/: React + Vite board UIpackages/db/: Drizzle schema, migrations, DB clientspackages/shared/: shared types, constants, validators, API path constantspackages/adapters/: agent adapter implementations (Claude, Codex, Cursor, etc.)packages/adapter-utils/: shared adapter utilitiespackages/plugins/: plugin system packagespackages/skills-catalog/: app-shipped skills catalog (@paperclipai/skills-catalog)packages/teams-catalog/: app-shipped teams catalog (@paperclipai/teams-catalog)cli/:paperclipaiCLI package (published bin, agent-facing commands)skills/: Paperclip runtime/operational skills (not part of the app catalog)doc/: operational and product docs
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.
- 11d ago Changed · +19 lines · +246 tokens per session 2ba86bce44d2
- 12d ago Changed · +12 lines · +166 tokens per session 58ee92cdf24a
- 18d ago Changed · +1 lines · +3 tokens per session 62a6ec121a4b
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- 1mo ago Changed · +1 lines · +53 tokens per session b5c5e143c109
- 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines · +54 tokens per session 6afdc559309d
- 1mo ago First seen · 221 lines · 2,380 tokens per session scan C 9bac93aa6784
paperclip AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository paperclipai/paperclip (107,044 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 2,944 tokens to every session, about $0.0118 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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Copilot instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code copilot instructions, project overview, root folders, core architecture (src/ folder) and built-in extensions (extensions/ folder).
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