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Paperclip: Open Source Human Control Plane for AI Labor — Dotta Bippa
Original: Paperclip: Open Source Human Control Plane for AI Labor — Dotta Bippa
Takeaway
Paperclip operationalizes 'zero-human companies' by giving every part of the app an agentic surface inside an org-chart abstraction with built-in QA/approval roles.
Summary
- Paperclip is an open-source agent orchestrator framed as a human control plane for AI labor, modeling work as an org chart of agents with CEO/CTO/CMO roles.
- Bring-your-own-agent: Codex, Claude, Gemini, Pi, Hermes plug in as employees with shared memory and skill installation (e.g., skills.sh, Remotion best-practices).
- Vendor-neutral workflows enforce QA reviewer + approver gates around tasks, addressing the unreliability of hooks across Claude Code/Codex.
- Crossed 40k GitHub stars in ~34 days; demoed making an on-brand Remotion celebration video end-to-end via a single CEO-level prompt.
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Original description
Curator note: Dotta is anonymous, so we asked him to submit with just an avatar. He did amazing! Paperclip enables open source orchestration for zero-human companies. With Paperclip you can manage hundreds of ai-agent employees to run your business, even if you're not technical. In this talk we walk through how to setup paperclip, how to grow an ai organization, how to leverage skills and instructions for the best ai agents, and how you can start a zero human company. Speaker info: https://x.com/dotta https://paperclip.ing Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduces Paperclip 00:56 - Organizational Control 1:17 - Getting Started 04:42 - Skill Management 09:01 - Reliable Workflows 11:10 - Routine Automation 17:51 - Agentic Flexibility 21:39 - Future Roadmap