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paperclip Trends at 76,172 Stars as an Open-Source Control Plane for Agent Fleets — With Budget Caps and an MCP Tool Gateway
paperclipai/paperclip added 167 stars today to reach 76,172 (14.2k forks, MIT, 3,516 commits on master), billing itself as the app teams use to manage agents at work. It acts as a coordination layer above heterogeneous backends — Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, arbitrary HTTP/webhook bots, and any CLI agent that can emit a heartbeat — solving the scattered-context problem of running a dozen agent tabs. Recently shipped features are the governance-shaped ones: budget controls, agent approvals, scheduled routines, multi-user support, cloud agent integrations, and an MCP tool gateway. The pattern to note is that runaway token cost is now being treated as a control-plane concern rather than a per-session one.
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