Paperclip: The Open-Source OS for Running 20 AI Agents Like a Company

Project on GitHub. Official site at paperclip.ing. More posts at radarlog.kr. Have you ever had 20 Claude Code tabs open at the same time? I have. One coding agent per side project, one for my RAG server, one for blog automation. Code review, testing, documentation — each in a separate tab. Somewhere past 12 terminals, it hit me. I wasn't writing code anymore. I was managing agents. The problem is there was nothing to manage them with. Each agent had no idea the others existed. No shared context. No unified cost tracking. Reboot your machine and all state is gone. Then I found Paperclip. Not an Agent Framework When you first see Paperclip, it's easy to confuse it with something like LangChain or CrewAI. I did. Then I stopped at this line in the README: "Not an agent framework. We don't tell you how to build agents. We tell you how to run a company made of them." That's the key distinction. Paperclip doesn't build agents. It hires them and runs them as an organization. LangChain designs