Paperclip
The open-source substrate LifeOS draws on.
Workers together as a company. Hire · assign · budget · audit.
Manage business goals, not pull requests.
Three primitives
Heartbeats
Agents wake on schedule. Check tasks. Act. Report.
Org chart
Every agent has a boss, a title, a job description. Work flows up and down the tree.
Budgets + board
Per-agent monthly caps. Board approves hires. You can pause anyone, any time.
Strong vs honest
Strong
✓ Most detailed office-model in open source
✓ Multi-company isolation — one deploy, many tenants
✓ MIT — read the source, extend, fork
Honest
· V1 spec Feb 2026 — still early
· No enterprise RBAC yet
· Node-only control plane
Why it shapes our work
It models the office, not the graph. Heartbeats + org chart + budgets is the shape of a real company. LifeOS adopts these patterns and layers on its own library, memory, and skills.
paperclip.ing · github.com/paperclipai/paperclip