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Paperclip Fundamentals📎

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Learn Paperclip, the open-source control plane for autonomous AI companies. Understand companies, agents, org charts, heartbeats, and governance from the ground up.

6

Sections

18

Lessons

24

Challenges

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The Control Plane for AI Companies

Core Concepts Overview

What Paperclip Is Not

What Is Paperclip's Role?(Sign in required)

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Control Plane vs Execution Plane(Sign in required)

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Match the Five Pillars(Sign in required)

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Paperclip's Target Use Case(Sign in required)

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Creating and Managing Companies

Goals & Goal Hierarchy

Projects & Workspaces

What Connects a Project to Code?(Sign in required)

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Organizational Hierarchy(Sign in required)

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Valid Company Statuses(Sign in required)

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The Purpose of Goals(Sign in required)

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Agents as AI Employees

Organizational Structure

Agent Authentication & Security

Reporting Structure(Sign in required)

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Match Agent Statuses(Sign in required)

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Agent Termination(Sign in required)

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Agent Hiring Flow(Sign in required)

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The Issue Lifecycle

Atomic Checkout & Ownership

Comments, Attachments & Hierarchies

Double Checkout Response(Sign in required)

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Issue Lifecycle Order(Sign in required)

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Terminal Issue Statuses(Sign in required)

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Preventing Duplicate Work(Sign in required)

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How Heartbeats Work

The Execution Model

Adapters at a Glance

Context Between Heartbeats(Sign in required)

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Match Heartbeat Triggers(Sign in required)

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Heartbeat Cycle Order(Sign in required)

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Monthly Heartbeat Count(Sign in required)

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Board Governance

Cost Control & Budgets

Putting It All Together

Budget Exhaustion(Sign in required)

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Valid Approval Actions(Sign in required)

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Budget Reset Date(Sign in required)

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Soft Alert Threshold(Sign in required)

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