# Deploy Paperclip with Easypanel

URL: /templates/paperclip

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration platform for running autonomous AI-powered businesses. It provides a Node.js server and React UI that coordinates teams of AI agents — supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bash, and HTTP webhooks — through a structured org chart with roles, budgets, governance, and goal alignment. Agents are assigned missions, given budgets, and run on heartbeat schedules, while you monitor costs and audit every tool-call from one dashboard.

## Installation notes

After the deployment is complete, open the service console and go to the Scripts tab. Run the Onboard script and copy the invite and paste it in the browser and create the admin user.

## Benefits

### Autonomous AI Business Orchestration

Define a mission, hire agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or any HTTP endpoint), set budgets, and let Paperclip coordinate the entire operation 24/7 without manual intervention.

### Unified Cost Control

Per-agent budgets with hard-stop enforcement prevent runaway API costs. Track spend in real time and get full visibility into every tool call and decision.

### Self-Hosted and Private

All data stays on your own infrastructure. No third-party SaaS dependency — full control over agents, tasks, secrets, and audit logs.

### Multi-Company Isolation

Run multiple independent companies from a single deployment with complete data isolation, company import/export, and secret scrubbing.

## Features

### Org Chart with Roles and Reporting Lines

Model your AI company structurally with job titles, permissions, and manager/report relationships so every agent knows its responsibilities.

### Goal-Traced Task System

Every issue traces back to the company mission. Atomic checkout prevents duplicate work, and structured dependencies keep tasks ordered correctly.

### Heartbeat Scheduling

Agents wake on a configurable schedule, check their queue, and take action. Delegation flows up and down the org chart automatically.

### Board Approval Workflows

Require human sign-off before agents execute critical actions, giving you governance control without micromanaging every step.

### Adapter-Agnostic Agent Support

Connect any agent runtime — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Bash scripts, or plain HTTP webhooks — through a unified adapter layer.

### Full Audit Logging

Every tool call, cost event, and decision is logged and queryable, giving you a complete history of what every agent did and why.

## Configuration

- `appServiceName` (App Service Name, required): paperclip

- `appServiceImage` (App Service Image, required): ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip:sha-8af38fb

## Services

- paperclip: app (ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip:sha-8af38fb)

- paperclip-db: postgres

## Resources

- [Website](https://paperclip.ing)

- [Documentation](https://paperclip.ing/docs)

- [Github](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip)

- [Template source](https://github.com/easypanel-io/templates/tree/main/templates/paperclip)