I have been running a small AI team — a handful of agents doing research, writing, and content production. The biggest challenge was not the AI. It was managing the AI . Which agent is doing what? Who ran up the API bill? Is anyone stuck on a task? I was spending more time orchestrating than the agents spent working. Then I found Paperclip — and it changed everything. What is Paperclip? Paperclip calls itself the open-source OS for AI companies. With 60,000+ GitHub stars , it is the most popular solution nobody is talking about. Think of it as: - Asana/Trello → but designed for AI agents, not humans - AWS Budgets → but per-agent, per-project, with hard stops - PagerDuty → but for agent heartbeats and auto-recovery All in one open-source package. 3 Killer Features 1. Heartbeat Engine Agents are not always online. Paperclip wakes them up when there is work, checks their budget first, injects secrets, and monitors execution. If an agent crashes mid-task? Auto-recovery. 2.…