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## Thinking Path > - Paperclip coordinates agent work through execution adapters. > - Sandbox ACP sessions send ordered input through a remote file queue. > - A temporary provider 502 currently closes the session during an input upload. > - A lost response can occur after the sandbox has consumed the message, so a blind retry can duplicate input. > - This pull request retries gateway failures with the same sequence and drops consumed sequences at the receiver. > - The session can continue through a brief provider failure without repeating a tool call. ## Linked Issues or Issue Description **What happened?** A sandbox ACP run can fail with `ACP agent disconnected during request (connection_close, exit=null, signal=null)` when a provider input upload returns HTTP 502. The bridge destroys its local socket on the first failure and can discard the diagnostic before the proxy reads it. **Expected behavior** A temporary gateway failure should get a bounded retry. A lost response after successful delivery must not duplicate input or reorder later messages. Permanent failures must still close the session. **Steps to reproduce** 1. Run the real sandbox process bridge with an echo child and a local test runner. 2. Inject a provider 502 before preparation, after a chunk upload, or after final publication and consumption. 3. Send the next input message. Before this change, the connection closes instead of delivering it. Searched open and closed PRs for `ACP disconnect`, `bridge retry`, and `502 sandbox`. Related work: #13287 covers shutdown after bridge loss; #13793 covers large launch envelopes. This change covers ordered input delivery within a running legacy ACP session. ## What Changed - Retry input uploads up to three times for recognized Daytona and Cloudflare HTTP 502, 503, and 504 diagnostics, with 250 ms and 500 ms delays. - Give each upload separate temporary paths and discard already-consumed input sequences, including late publication from an earlier attempt. Clean failed attempts in the background without removing a published message or another attempt’s files. Cleanup cannot delay retries or shutdown. - Keep later input behind the retry. Stop queued input on permanent failure and flush a fixed diagnostic before closing the socket. Neither failure-diagnostic persistence nor shutdown-warning persistence can block teardown. - Add real-process regression tests for lost responses, late publication, retry exhaustion, immediate permanent failure, and diagnostic redaction. - Give accepted run-log file appends up to three seconds to drain before finalization computes the size, hash, and durable copy. Close the run handle to later appends. This waits only for file writes, independently of later DB progress or live-event persistence. If writes remain stalled, return null size/hash metadata and skip the final durable copy so the run can settle. Late writes cannot restart mirroring. - Preserve legacy comment attribution when final log size is unknown by reading existing entries within the unchanged 2 MB scan limit. Storage errors or a three-second read deadline return the evidence already read instead of failing the comment listing; pagination stops at the deadline. The deadline requests cancellation of the underlying local stream or S3 HEAD, GET, and response stream. A separate response timeout returns partial evidence even when filesystem I/O delays cancellation; late reads cannot append evidence or start another page. Each listing retains its existing batches of eight reads, without a shared admission cap that skips readable logs under contention. - Document the retry and log-finalization boundaries in the development guide. ## Verification - Final commit `347daa564b`: [Linux CI](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/36506995168/attempts/2) passed. Greptile Apex review 13 scored this commit 5/5 with no new findings; all 12 review threads are resolved. - The final CI run initially hit a Cursor test timeout and four Discord credential-lock contention failures. All five cases passed in isolation. The two failed shards and their aggregate gate passed on retry without a code change. Those intermittent failures are not claimed fixed by this PR. - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/adapter-utils typecheck` passed. - `pnpm exec vitest run packages/adapter-utils/src/execution-target-stdin-race.test.ts packages/adapter-utils/src/execution-target-sandbox.test.ts packages/adapter-utils/src/sandbox-callback-bridge.test.ts`: 262 tests passed on the final implementation, including 21 new regressions. The original three fault-injection cases failed before the fix. - The regressions cover failed and indefinitely stalled cleanup, Cloudflare gateway responses and retry exhaustion, permanent errors that must not retry, and teardown while failure logging remains indefinitely stalled. Seven Apex regression cases failed before the review fixes. Adapter-utils typecheck and build passed again after the final review change. - `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/services/run-log-store.test.ts server/src/services/run-log-store-cancellation.test.ts`: all 25 tests passed, including four new regressions that failed before the finalization fix. They cover delayed and failed appends, late-write admission, agreement between the local bytes/summary/durable copy, and a stalled append that exhausts the three-second budget. The timeout case verifies unknown metadata, no final upload, and no mirror restart after late completion. New cancellation tests use the real AWS SDK against a local HTTP server. They verify that stalled HEAD, GET, and response-body connections close on abort and that a subsequent read succeeds. Local range and already-aborted read cases also pass. - `pnpm exec vitest run server/src/__tests__/issues-service.test.ts -t 'readIssueCommentRunLogText|deriveIssueCommentRunLogAttribution'`: 14 targeted tests passed. The null-size reader case, both storage-error cases, the stalled-read case, and the cancellation/concurrent-listing cases failed before their fixes. The new regressions verify that timed-out reads are cancelled, subsequent listings recover, and two concurrent listings both retain their attribution markers. A read that ignores cancellation still returns partial evidence at three seconds and cannot resume pagination when it finishes; this regression failed before the response-timeout fix. - `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server typecheck` and `pnpm --filter @paperclipai/server build` passed after the response-timeout change. - Full `pnpm -r typecheck` and `pnpm build` passed earlier in this PR; the affected packages were rechecked after review fixes. - Full local `pnpm test:run` failed in the general-server group: 511 files passed, 40 failed, and 158 were skipped. Failures include embedded PostgreSQL initialization, read-only cache directory renames, a macOS long-path fixture, and a workspace exposure assertion. The PostgreSQL, cache-permission, and long-path failures also reproduce with both changed implementation files restored to baseline commit `24c58e479a`. The exposure suite passes in isolation both on baseline and the fixed branch (28 passed, 3 skipped). CI runs the full suite on Linux. Later local test groups were not reached. - An earlier CI run hit the Telegram retry-timing failure fixed upstream in #14501. The branch includes that master fix. The selected recovery test passed against a fresh, migrated PostgreSQL 16 database. The embedded PostgreSQL runner is unavailable on this Mac; the isolated database was stopped and removed afterward. - No live agent turn was replayed. The tests use local child processes and injected provider failures. ## Risks Retries are restricted to recognized Daytona SDK and Cloudflare bridge gateway-error messages, which survive plugin RPC serialization. Other errors fail immediately. Temporary upload paths are now unique for all command-managed queue writes. Receiver sequence checks prevent duplicate input; retries do not restart an agent turn. Cleanup and failure logging are nonblocking and best effort; session teardown remains the final cleanup boundary. Log finalization now drains accepted local file writes for at most three seconds and ignores later appends on the closed run handle. A timeout leaves final size/hash unknown and skips the final durable upload; an existing partial mirror may remain available, but it is not claimed as a verified final snapshot. It does not wait for later DB progress or live-event persistence. Optional attribution keeps partial evidence when a read fails or times out. Cancellation closes S3 requests and response streams. Local filesystem I/O may finish after the caller deadline, but a late read cannot change the returned evidence or continue pagination. Later listings can retry after storage recovers. There is no schema, authentication, or permission change. Revert this commit to restore the previous behavior. ## Model Used OpenAI GPT-6 through Codex, with reasoning, repository inspection, code editing, and local test execution. ## Checklist - [x] I have included a thinking path that traces from project context to this change - [x] I have specified the model used (with version and capability details) - [x] I have checked ROADMAP.md and confirmed this PR does not duplicate planned core work - [x] I have searched GitHub for duplicate or related PRs and linked them above - [x] I have either (a) linked existing issues with `Fixes: #` / `Closes #` OR (b) described the issue in-PR following the relevant issue template - [x] I have not referenced internal/instance-local Paperclip issues or links (only public GitHub `#NNN` / `github.com/paperclipai/paperclip` URLs) - [x] My branch name describes the change and contains no internal Paperclip ticket id or instance-derived details - [x] I have run tests locally; targeted tests pass and full-suite limitations are documented above - [x] I have added or updated tests where applicable - [x] I have updated relevant documentation to reflect my changes - [x] I have considered and documented any risks above - [x] All Paperclip CI gates are green - [x] Greptile is 5/5 with no open P2s, recommendations, or follow-ups - [x] I will address all Greptile and reviewer comments before requesting merge --------- Co-authored-by: Paperclip <noreply@paperclip.ing>
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Paperclip is the app people use to manage AI agents for work.
Open-source orchestration for teams of AI agents.
If OpenClaw is an employee, Paperclip is the company.
Paperclip is a Node.js server and React UI that orchestrates a team of AI agents to run a business. Bring your own agents, assign goals, and track work and costs from one dashboard.
It looks like a task manager. Under the hood: org charts, budgets, governance, goal alignment, and agent coordination.
Manage business goals, not pull requests.
| Step | Example | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Define the goal | "Build the #1 AI note-taking app to $1M MRR." |
| 02 | Hire the team | CEO, CTO, engineers, designers, marketers — any bot, any provider. |
| 03 | Approve and run | Review strategy. Set budgets. Hit go. Monitor from the dashboard. |
| Works with |
 OpenClaw |
 Claude Code |
 Codex |
 Cursor |
 Bash |
 HTTP |
If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired.
Paperclip is right for you if
- ✅ You want to build autonomous AI organizations
- ✅ You coordinate many different agents (OpenClaw, Codex, Claude, Cursor) toward a common goal
- ✅ You have 20 simultaneous Claude Code terminals open and lose track of what everyone is doing
- ✅ You want agents running autonomously 24/7, but still want to audit work and chime in when needed
- ✅ You want to monitor costs and enforce budgets
- ✅ You want a process for managing agents that feels like using a task manager
- ✅ You want to manage your autonomous businesses from your phone
The four pillars
Four things have to work for an organization of AI agents to actually produce: the tasks, the org, the training, and the infrastructure. Paperclip is built around exactly those four pillars.
| Pillar | Built for | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Agentic Task Manager — Declare intent. Agents work. You verify the output. | Everyone, daily | Tasks, approvals & review gates · proactive agent coworkers · auditable routines & workflows · verify from diffs, screenshots & tests |
| Org Chart for Agents — Roles, permissions & boundaries for humans and agents. | Managers | Mixed human + agent org chart · responsibilities, delegation, specialization · governance: who can do what · scoped secrets & company boundaries |
| Agent Employee Training — Design, train & evaluate your AI employees. | Enablers | Skill Studio & shared org-wide skills · evals & saved test runs · active learning loops & quality metrics · performance reviews for agents |
| Agentic OS — The infrastructure that makes the work run. | IT & platform | Cross-provider runtime: any model, any agent · sandboxing, integrations & MCP servers · SSO, GRC, RBAC & cost controls · data privacy, internal trace collection, compounding data value |
Features
🔌 Bring Your Own AgentAny agent, any runtime, one org chart. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. |
🎯 Goal AlignmentEvery task traces back to the organization mission. Agents know what to do and why. |
💓 HeartbeatsAgents wake on a schedule, check work, and act. Delegation flows up and down the org chart. |
💰 Cost ControlMonthly budgets per agent. When they hit the limit, they stop. No runaway costs. |
🏢 Multi-OrganizationOne deployment, many organizations. Complete data isolation. One control plane for your portfolio. |
🎫 Ticket SystemEvery conversation traced. Every decision explained. Full tool-call tracing and immutable audit log. |
🛡️ GovernanceApprove hires, override strategy, pause or terminate any agent — at any time. |
📊 Org ChartHierarchies, roles, reporting lines. Your agents have a boss, a title, and a job description. |
📱 Mobile ReadyMonitor and manage your autonomous businesses from anywhere. |
Problems Paperclip solves
| Without Paperclip | With Paperclip |
|---|---|
| ❌ You have 20 Claude Code tabs open and can't track which one does what. On reboot you lose everything. | ✅ Tasks are ticket-based, conversations are threaded, sessions persist across reboots. |
| ❌ You manually gather context from several places to remind your bot what you're actually doing. | ✅ Context flows from the task up through the project and company goals — your agent always knows what to do and why. |
| ❌ Folders of agent configs are disorganized and you're re-inventing task management, communication, and coordination between agents. | ✅ Paperclip gives you org charts, ticketing, delegation, and governance out of the box — so you run a company, not a pile of scripts. |
| ❌ Runaway loops waste hundreds of dollars of tokens and max your quota before you even know what happened. | ✅ Cost tracking surfaces token budgets and throttles agents when they're out. Management prioritizes with budgets. |
| ❌ You have recurring jobs (customer support, social, reports) and have to remember to manually kick them off. | ✅ Heartbeats handle regular work on a schedule. Management supervises. |
| ❌ You have an idea, you have to find your repo, fire up Claude Code, keep a tab open, and babysit it. | ✅ Add a task in Paperclip. Your coding agent works on it until it's done. Management reviews their work. |
Why Paperclip is special
Paperclip handles the hard orchestration details correctly.
| Atomic execution. | Task checkout and budget enforcement are atomic, so no double-work and no runaway spend. |
| Persistent agent state. | Agents resume the same task context across heartbeats instead of restarting from scratch. |
| Runtime skill injection. | Agents can learn Paperclip workflows and project context at runtime, without retraining. |
| Governance with rollback. | Approval gates are enforced, config changes are revisioned, and bad changes can be rolled back safely. |
| Goal-aware execution. | Tasks carry full goal ancestry so agents consistently see the "why," not just a title. |
| Portable company templates. | Export/import orgs, agents, and skills with secret scrubbing and collision handling. |
| True multi-organization isolation. | Every entity is company-scoped, so one deployment can run many companies with separate data and audit trails. |
What's Under the Hood
Paperclip is a full control plane, not a wrapper. Before you build any of this yourself, know that it already exists:
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ PAPERCLIP SERVER │
│ │
│ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │
│ │Identity & │ │ Work & │ │ Heartbeat │ │Governance │ │
│ │ Access │ │ Tasks │ │ Execution │ │& Approvals│ │
│ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │
│ │
│ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │
│ │ Org Chart │ │Workspaces │ │ Plugins │ │ Budget │ │
│ │ & Agents │ │ & Runtime │ │ │ │ & Costs │ │
│ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │
│ │
│ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │
│ │ Routines │ │ Secrets & │ │ Activity │ │ Company │ │
│ │& Schedules│ │ Storage │ │ & Events │ │Portability│ │
│ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
▲ ▲ ▲ ▲
┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐
│ Claude │ │ Codex │ │ CLI │ │ HTTP/web │
│ Code │ │ │ │ agents │ │ bots │
└───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────┘
The Systems
|
Identity & Access — Two deployment modes (trusted local or authenticated), board users, agent API keys, short-lived run JWTs, company memberships, invite flows, and OpenClaw onboarding. Every mutating request is traced to an actor. |
Org Chart & Agents — Agents have roles, titles, reporting lines, permissions, and budgets. Adapter examples match the diagram: Claude Code, Codex, CLI agents such as Cursor/Gemini/bash, HTTP/webhook bots such as OpenClaw, and external adapter plugins. If it can receive a heartbeat, it's hired. |
|
Work & Task System — Issues carry company/project/goal/parent links, atomic checkout with execution locks, first-class blocker dependencies, comments, documents, attachments, work products, labels, and inbox state. No double-work, no lost context. |
Heartbeat Execution — DB-backed wakeup queue with coalescing, budget checks, workspace resolution, secret injection, skill loading, and adapter invocation. Runs produce structured logs, cost events, session state, and audit trails. Recovery handles orphaned runs automatically. |
|
Workspaces & Runtime — Project workspaces, isolated execution workspaces (git worktrees, operator branches), and runtime services (dev servers, preview URLs). Agents work in the right directory with the right context every time. |
Governance & Approvals — Board approval workflows, execution policies with review/approval stages, decision tracking, budget hard-stops, agent pause/resume/terminate, and full audit logging. Nothing ships without your sign-off. |
|
Budget & Cost Control — Token and cost tracking by company, agent, project, goal, issue, provider, and model. Scoped budget policies with warning thresholds and hard stops. Overspend pauses agents and cancels queued work automatically. |
Routines & Schedules — Recurring tasks with cron, webhook, and API triggers. Concurrency and catch-up policies. Each routine execution creates a tracked issue and wakes the assigned agent — no manual kick-offs needed. |
|
Plugins — Instance-wide plugin system with out-of-process workers, capability-gated host services, job scheduling, tool exposure, and UI contributions. Extend Paperclip without forking it. |
Secrets & Storage — Instance and company secrets, encrypted local storage, provider-backed object storage, attachments, and work products. Sensitive values stay out of prompts unless a scoped run explicitly needs them. |
|
Activity & Events — Mutating actions, heartbeat state changes, cost events, approvals, comments, and work products are recorded as durable activity so operators can audit what happened and why. |
Company Portability — Export and import entire organizations — agents, skills, projects, routines, and issues — with secret scrubbing and collision handling. One deployment, many companies, complete data isolation. |
What Paperclip is not
| Not a chatbot. | Agents have jobs, not chat windows. |
| Not an agent framework. | We don't tell you how to build agents. We tell you how to run a company made of them. |
| Not a workflow builder. | No drag-and-drop pipelines. Paperclip models companies — with org charts, goals, budgets, and governance. |
| Not a prompt manager. | Agents bring their own prompts, models, and runtimes. Paperclip manages the organization they work in. |
| Not a single-agent tool. | This is for teams. If you have one agent, you probably don't need Paperclip. If you have twenty — you definitely do. |
| Not a code review tool. | Paperclip orchestrates work, not pull requests. Bring your own review process. |
Quickstart
Open source. Self-hosted. No Paperclip account required.
curl -fsSLO https://paperclip.ing/install.sh
curl -fsSLO https://paperclip.ing/install.sh.sha256
if command -v sha256sum >/dev/null 2>&1; then
sha256sum -c install.sh.sha256
else
shasum -a 256 -c install.sh.sha256
fi
bash install.sh
The installer ensures Node.js 24.11 or newer is available, installs a managed
Paperclip CLI under ~/.paperclip/cli, and starts interactive onboarding. It
can also install Paperclip as a background service on supported Linux and
macOS systems. The checksum detects transfer or publishing mistakes, but it is
served from the same origin as the script; use a release-tag or commit-pinned
GitHub copy when you need an independently hosted source.
For a non-interactive managed install:
curl -fsSL https://paperclip.ing/install.sh | bash -s -- --no-prompt --no-onboard
paperclipai onboard --yes
The piped form requires supported Node.js, npm, and npx to already be present.
If Node.js bootstrap is required, download and review install.sh before
running it so no privileged dependency-install command is accepted through a
pipe.
To try Paperclip without installing anything permanently:
npx --registry https://registry.npmjs.org paperclipai onboard --yes
For an isolated manual test instance that is already initialized with a CEO
agent, use test-drive. It stays in the foreground, never installs a service
or creates a first task, and opens the browser only after setup succeeds:
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... npx paperclipai test-drive
OPENAI_API_KEY=... npx paperclipai test-drive --harness codex
OPENROUTER_API_KEY=... npx paperclipai test-drive \
--harness opencode \
--model openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Each run without --data-dir gets a unique, retained temporary directory; its
absolute path is printed at startup. Pass --data-dir to reuse one, or
--no-browser to leave the initialized instance unopened. When invoked from a
linked Git worktree, test-drive also enables task execution in that worktree.
See doc/CLI.md for credential and
reuse behavior.
Troubleshooting: private npm registry
.npmrcIf this fails with an
E404forpaperclipai(or similar) and you use a private npm registry (for example GitHub Packages) via a global~/.npmrc,npxmay be resolvingpaperclipaiagainst that private registry instead of the public npm registry.Diagnostic:
npm config get registryWorkaround (cross-platform; force the public npm registry for this command):
npx --registry https://registry.npmjs.org paperclipai onboard --yes
That quickstart path now defaults to trusted local loopback mode for the fastest first run. To start in authenticated/private mode instead, choose a bind preset explicitly:
paperclipai onboard --yes --bind lan
# or:
paperclipai onboard --yes --bind tailnet
If you already have Paperclip configured, rerunning onboard keeps the existing config in place. Use paperclipai configure to edit settings.
See doc/INSTALLING.md for pinned versions, canary and
git-ref installs, updates, rollback, service management, and uninstalling.
Or manually:
git clone https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip.git
cd paperclip
pnpm install
pnpm dev
This starts the API server at http://localhost:3100. An embedded PostgreSQL database is created automatically — no setup required.
Requirements: Node.js 24.11+, pnpm 9.15+
FAQ
What does a typical setup look like? Locally, a single Node.js process manages an embedded Postgres and local file storage. For production, point it at your own Postgres and deploy however you like. Configure projects, agents, and goals — the agents take care of the rest.
If you're a solo entrepreneur you can use Tailscale to access Paperclip on the go. Then later you can deploy to e.g. Vercel when you need it.
Can I run multiple companies? Yes. A single deployment can run an unlimited number of companies with complete data isolation.
How is Paperclip different from agents like OpenClaw or Claude Code? Paperclip uses those agents. It orchestrates them into a company — with org charts, budgets, goals, governance, and accountability.
Why should I use Paperclip instead of just pointing my OpenClaw to Asana or Trello? Agent orchestration has subtleties in how you coordinate who has work checked out, how to maintain sessions, monitoring costs, establishing governance - Paperclip does this for you.
(Bring-your-own-ticket-system is on the Roadmap)
Do agents run continuously? By default, agents run on scheduled heartbeats and event-based triggers (task assignment, @-mentions). You can also hook in continuous agents like OpenClaw. You bring your agent and Paperclip coordinates.
Development
pnpm dev # Full dev (API + UI, watch mode)
pnpm dev:once # Full dev without file watching
pnpm dev:server # Server only
pnpm dev:mobile # Serve prebuilt UI on :3101 for phones/tablets (proxies /api → :3100)
pnpm dev:both # Run `pnpm dev` and `pnpm dev:mobile` together
pnpm build # Build all
pnpm typecheck # Type checking
pnpm test # Cheap default test run (Vitest only)
pnpm test:watch # Vitest watch mode
pnpm test:e2e # Playwright browser suite
pnpm db:generate # Generate DB migration
pnpm db:migrate # Apply migrations
pnpm test does not run Playwright. Browser suites stay separate and are typically run only when working on those flows or in CI.
See doc/DEVELOPING.md for the full development guide.
Roadmap
- ✅ Plugin system (e.g. add a knowledge base, custom tracing, queues, etc)
- ✅ Get OpenClaw / claw-style agent employees
- ✅ companies.sh - import and export entire organizations
- ✅ Easy AGENTS.md configurations
- ✅ Skills Manager, Skill Studio & Skills Store
- ✅ Scheduled Routines
- ✅ Better Budgeting
- ✅ Agent Reviews and Approvals
- ✅ Multiple Human Users
- ✅ Cloud / Sandbox agents (e2b, Cloudflare, Daytona, Modal, Novita, self-hosted Kubernetes)
- ✅ Artifacts & Work Products
- ✅ Deep Planning (planning mode, revisioned plans, plan approvals)
- ✅ Enforced Outcomes (watchdogs, recovery actions, review gates)
- ✅ MCP Tool Gateway & Apps (governed tool access)
- ✅ Secrets Manager with per-agent access
- ✅ Activity log & action attribution
- ✅ Self-healing runs & automatic recovery
- ✅ Agent evals & feedback
- ⚪ Memory / Knowledge
- ⚪ MAXIMIZER MODE
- ⚪ Work Queues
- ⚪ Self-Organization
- ⚪ Automatic Organizational Learning
- ⚪ CEO Chat
- 🟡 Cloud deployments (multi-tenant isolation & company Import/Export shipped)
- ⚪ Desktop App
- ⚪ Bring-your-own-ticket-system (Asana / Linear / Jira as on-ramps)
- ⚪ Connected Apps (one-click integrations, e.g. Vercel)
This is the short roadmap preview. See the full roadmap in ROADMAP.md.
Community & Plugins
Find Plugins and more at awesome-paperclip
Observability
Paperclip ships with opt-in OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation for the server (traces only). It activates when OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT is set and supports grpc, http/protobuf, and http/json via the standard OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL env var. @opentelemetry/api is a normal server dependency; the SDK, auto-instrumentation, and exporter packages are optional peer dependencies — install them only if you want tracing. See doc/observability.md for install commands and the full env-var reference.
Paperclip also ships with opt-in Sentry error monitoring for the server and the browser. Set SENTRY_DSN_FRONTEND to activate it for the browser and SENTRY_DSN_BACKEND to activate it for the server — each variable is optional, and the legacy SENTRY_DSN variable still works as a fallback for either component. The supported server SDK version is @sentry/node@10.71.0; it is an optional peer dependency for the server, so install it only if you want error monitoring. The browser SDK, @sentry/browser, is pinned to the same exact version. See doc/observability.md for the install command, the privacy settings, and the full default capture set.
Telemetry
Paperclip collects anonymous usage telemetry to help us understand how the product is used and improve it. No personal information, issue content, prompts, file paths, or secrets are ever collected. Private repository references are hashed with a per-install salt before being sent.
Contributors changing emitted telemetry events should follow the Telemetry Data Contract. For proposed first-party events that are not in the generated contract yet, follow Telemetry Workflow.
Telemetry is enabled by default and can be disabled with any of the following:
| Method | How |
|---|---|
| Environment variable | PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1 |
| Standard convention | DO_NOT_TRACK=1 |
| CI environments | Automatically disabled when CI=true |
| Config file | Set telemetry.enabled: false in your Paperclip config |
Contributing
We welcome contributions. See the contributing guide for details.
Community
- Discord — Join the community
- Twitter / X — Follow updates and announcements
- GitHub Issues — bugs and feature requests
- GitHub Discussions — ideas and RFC
License
MIT © 2026 Paperclip Labs, Inc
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