Claude Code + Paperclip Just Destroyed OpenClaw
The video demonstrates Paperclip, an open-source tool for creating AI-only companies with multiple autonomous agents. The creator shows how to set up a complete organization with a CEO, engineers, and other specialized agents that can hire each other, complete tasks, and run continuously without human intervention.
Summary
The video begins with the creator showing his mission control center running seven AI agents with five active tasks for his existing AI automation business. He explains that Paperclip allows users to create companies with no human employees, where AI agents can hire other agents, set goals, and automate entire business operations. The tool launched in early March and gained over 36,000 GitHub stars in just a few weeks, addressing the pain point of managing multiple Claude Code sessions and terminals simultaneously.
The creator demonstrates setting up a new company called 'Proof Shot' from scratch, which aims to provide AI-cleaned customer testimonials. He walks through the onboarding process, starting with creating a CEO agent using Claude Sonnet, setting the first task to hire an engineer, and configuring agent instructions including heartbeat files, soul files, and tools files. The system includes a ticketing system for tracking all conversations and tasks, with an inbox for approvals and comments.
Key features highlighted include heartbeats that keep agents running on schedules (every 4-12 hours), budget controls per agent, the ability to run multiple companies within one dashboard, and integration with GitHub repositories. The creator shows how agents can be assigned different models and providers, and demonstrates the skills marketplace (skills.sh) where users can add capabilities like front-end design and web design guidelines to their agents. He also covers the beta routines feature for recurring workflows and the ability to import pre-built company templates with complete teams of specialized agents. The video concludes with discussion of environment variables and API key management, emphasizing how Claude Code can help optimize Paperclip setups.
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Key Insights
- One of Paperclip's founders explained the pain point that led to the tool's creation: developers were running 20 different terminals and 20 different Claude Code sessions daily, losing visibility and forgetting which agents were doing what tasks
- Paperclip gained explosive growth with over 36,000 GitHub stars in just 3 weeks since launching in early March, indicating strong demand for AI agent orchestration tools
- Heartbeats are crucial for agent proactivity - agents wake up on schedules with fresh context and memory, requiring them to check their work and get familiarized with their environment each time, which is why this feature made OpenClaw blow up
- The creator advocates setting up a dedicated Claude Code project to understand Paperclip's architecture, API, and configurations, arguing that having an AI assistant that knows everything about the tool helps with setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Companies can 'acquire' other AI companies by importing pre-built templates from Paperclip's catalog, with some templates containing up to 48 specialized agents with specific knowledge and skills already configured
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Transcript
[0:00] What you're looking at right here is my mission control center. You can see I've got seven agents enabled. I've got five tasks in progress. You can see what all of them are doing right here. We can see all of the recent activity and all the tasks. And in my inbox, I can see what is needed to be approved by me or what I have to look at. Down here, you can see the seven different agents we have. And you can see what they're actually working on. So, right now, the AIS marketer is running. And for each of our different agents, we can control their instructions, their skills, their configuration, everything. So now in a…
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