Welcome to getting started with Paperclip and I'm Doda, your host and the creator of Paperclip and I'm so excited to show you how to get started with this brand new open-source agent orchestrator. I'm going to walk you through your first steps of how to get Paperclip started, what it looks like when you have a huge organization, and some of my best advanced tips for working with AI agents and so you can create your own uh zero-human company.

Now, the tagline that we have for Paperclip is that it's for open-source orchestration for zero-human companies. Um, you can hire employees, set goals, automate jobs, your business can nearly run itself. Well, you know, maybe that's a bit of a headline. I would say that Paperclip is the human control plane for AI labor. Really, the idea behind Paperclip is that you're able to set up an org chart of agents where you can manage them all and um invoke your taste in what these agents how they work and have them complete real work.

The first thing that you do is you should just open up your terminal and run NPX Paperclip AI onboard. You can pass dash dash yes if you want the default options, but let me talk about like what is Paperclip. Paperclip is a um a a way you can accomplish real work that you are accountable for using AI agents. You maybe have seen tools um where they have you create a task and then it automatically creates a business for you. With Paperclip, um you actually are involved in the steps to have your preferences accounted for and um and you are involved in the task process from the higher-level design all the way to actually executing.

So, this is the company that I use to manage Paperclip itself. You've got here the CEO who's the man in charge. We've got a CTO and under him he has quite a lot of coders. Um, I would say that the two coders that I use the most would be the Codex coder as well as the Claude coder.

And an important thing about Paperclip is that you bring your own agent. So, you can use Gemini, you can use Pi, you can use Hermes, you can use Open Claw. A key part of Paperclip is that any agent that you want to use can be brought into Paperclip as an employee and then it can sort of negotiate and communicate and have its memory stored with the rest of Paperclip.

I created a new issue. And I assigned it to my CEO. The idea behind Paperclip is that you are the CEO and you are basically giving your CEO instructions and then your CEO is designed to break down the tasks to your executive branch and then down to the individual contributors. So, one of the things that I did is I asked the CEO, "Please hire a video writer and have them write a Remotion video celebrating 40,000 stars."

Every piece of the Paperclip app has an agentic surface. So, your CEO knows how to hire new agents. They know how to install new skills. There is a skills manager built into Paperclip. So, for example, I'm sure you've seen skills.sh. From there, um we would install the Remotion best practices skill. The CEO hired our video writer agent and gave her the Remotion best practices skill.

I was able to create a prompt to say, "Plan this video for the stats dashboard." I wrote this prompt and then the agent wrote this plan. Paperclip has first-class support for plans. And then after I read the plan briefly, I gave it some feedback. Within about 5 minutes we had this beautiful animation that is on brand.

With Paperclip, all of those things are built into the system. We already have a Paperclip branding guide, which the agents already know about. Something that might have taken me a week actually becomes an afterthought with Paperclip. We actually can go over the list of feedback that we've given our agents and learn how to make the skill better where we have not only a generic Remotion skill, but also a Paperclip specific skill that has our branding guides, our preferences, our style like pacing choices.

Paperclip provides um a variety of kind of workflows that are important to the orchestrator in order to um actually uh complete the work successfully. So, for example, one of the main things that you will often see in a good Paperclip organization would be QA. Um the QA agent has the agent browser skill, which is a skill that lets you trigger tasks like open a website, fill out a form, click a button.

Paperclip gives you this kind of vendor-neutral harness where you can create these higher-level workflows where you can say when the assignee is finished with this task, you must have the QA agent boot and give a review on it. You also can have um an approver, right? So these are two sort of different roles because um QA might review it and then you iterate between the coder and the reviewer. And but the manager might be the one who kind of approves it.

One of the things that I use paperclip for a lot is um I I use um Twitter bookmarks to be able to track ideas. Within the routines uh section, what you're able to do is is set up things like write the release change log. For the open-source project, we use greptile in order to do code reviews. Paperclip is not a code review tool. Paperclip is designed for creating uh businesses. Um you can use paperclip to um to to run your marketing, to help deal with uh sales leads, to uh deal with finance operations.

We're adding uh features like the CEO chat. We're adding maximizer mode, which is when you've got uh a dream and tokens to burn, and you want the agents to work as hard as they can um to do whatever it takes to create your uh business, and you want them to keep going without stopping. That would be the Paperclip maximizer.

Another piece you'll notice is missing is that there's not multiple human users. That is a huge gap. We are working on this feature really this week um because you should be able to deploy it to a cloud and have your entire team work on Paperclip. We're also working on cloud and sandboxing agents, so that you'll be able to uh run agents in E2B or dev.exe or cloud agent deployments.

Paperclip is a free product that will give you the power as a human to to to have control over AI labor. Do not worry about AI taking your job. When you use a something like Paperclip, you will be in charge of thousands of agents um helping you build your business, helping you with your company.