Self-hosted Node.js server and web UI for running a team of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others) with goals, tasks and budgets.
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Paperclip at a glance
Checked 18 Oct 2026Paperclip is a Node.js server with a React UI that coordinates several AI agents as a team, assigning work and tracking it. It drives agents you already have (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode and others), so you need their subscriptions or API keys. It needs Node.js 24.11+ and creates an embedded PostgreSQL database; a Docker image is offered. MIT licence, no Paperclip account needed. The README does not list supported operating systems. It is a free tool and does not replace a paid product we list.
RepoQuarry. “Paperclip.” Checked 18 Oct 2026. https://repoquarry.dev/projects/paperclipWhat it replaces
Nothing people pay for: it’s a free tool, listed because people search for it. Find similar projects in Agent frameworks.
Facts, with sources
Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.
Open source. Self-hosted. No Paperclip account required.github.com · paperclip#readme ↗ 3d ago
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restrictiongithub.com · LICENSE ↗ 3d ago
Local Claude and Codex subscription sign-in also needs Python 3 and the corresponding provider CLI on the Paperclip host.github.com · paperclip#readme ↗ 3d ago
An embedded PostgreSQL database is created automatically — no setup required.github.com · paperclip#readme ↗ 3d ago
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Growth and activity in detail
Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.
- Actively maintained100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.
100+ people committing in the last 12 months · 949 pull requests merged in 30 days · 925 issues opened, 70 closed in 30 days
Stars over time
Building history+1,346 stars since 18 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.
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Tracked daily since 18 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.
Commits per week, last 52 weeks
active 12 of the last 12 weeksUp 104% on the 12 weeks before.
Where these numbers come from
- Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
- Star history: counted every night since 18 Oct 2026.
- Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
- Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
- Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.