Paperclip: Hire AI Agents Like Employees (Live Demo)

Paperclip is an open-source orchestration layer that runs AI agent teams as self-directed companies. The episode demonstrates setup, hiring agents (CEO, engineers, QA), managing tasks, tracking token spend and practical tips for memory, QA, and agent governance.

Main ideas:
– Agent orchestration: define goals, hire agents, assign tasks and approve work.
– Configuration: set personas, memory, heartbeat, skills and model choices (local or cloud).
– Governance: monitor token spend, QA, routines, evals and importable team templates.
– Limits: security of community skills, taste alignment and the need for human-set values.

Quotes:

AI agents are like Memento man: they wake up capable, but they don’t know who they are.

Instead of hiring employees, you’re hiring agents — and you must teach them your taste.

Paperclip hit 30,000 GitHub stars in three weeks while still being early and experimental.