Paperclip hands out the work, records what it costs, and stops an agent at its budget cap. litwindow runs a private instance of it on your own VM, with your workers registered before you log in.
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DEMONSTRATION READOUT — YOUR OFFICE, YOUR NUMBERS
Paperclip is the open-source control plane that assigns tasks to your agents, tracks what they spend, and enforces a hard monthly budget cap per agent; litwindow runs a private instance of it on your own VM, already wired to your workers.
It holds your organization and the people and agents in it. Workers register with it and send heartbeats, so it knows which of them are alive; tasks are assigned through it, and what each one spends is recorded against the cap you set. Daily work happens in Paperclip's own interface — the litwindow dashboard is for the infrastructure underneath it: health, logs, keys, SSH, plan, export, delete.
Paperclip is not litwindow's software. It is an open-source project, and what we sell is the machine it runs on and the wiring around it: a tested pin, its own database, a certificate, workers already joined, backups, and a way out. The instance is yours — including the owner account and everything in the database.
Paperclip is open source, so nothing stops you. If you have already tried, you know what the work actually is — and that most of it is not the control plane.
These are not instructions. They are what happens between checkout and your first assigned task, and most of it happens without you.
The pins and paths below are the real ones, taken from the image and compose files your office is built from.
paperclipai npm package on its stable channel. The pin lives in image/versions.env; migrations run automatically on startup, and the 0196–0222 range was verified additive at this pin.paperclip_data and paperclip_home volumes are durable, so CLI logins made inside the container survive a container recreation.https://yourname.litwindow.ai. TLS terminates at Caddy on your machine, not on ours.codex_local adapter — the Codex CLI inside the Paperclip container. Beyond those, Paperclip is agent-agnostic: anything that can send a heartbeat can attach, including your own scripts.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY and OPENROUTER_API_KEY are written to the VM's compose .env at first boot and never stored by the platform — our database holds a truncated SHA-256 fingerprint, nothing more.No. Paperclip is an open-source project; litwindow hosts a private instance of it for you on your own VM, pinned at a version we have tested and wired to your workers before you log in. We did not write it and we do not resell it as ours.
You do. After provisioning, your litwindow dashboard shows a one-time owner claim link, valid for seven days. Opening it makes you the Paperclip owner, and the link is removed from litwindow's systems the moment it is used.
It stops. That is Paperclip's own native enforcement, not a litwindow wrapper around it: the agent halts until the month rolls over or you raise the cap. The litwindow dashboard surfaces the spend so you see it approaching the cap first.
Paperclip is agent-agnostic: anything that can send a heartbeat can register with it, including your own scripts. Your office ships with OpenClaw and Hermes attached as always-on workers, plus a Codex worker running as Paperclip's codex_local adapter inside the container.
Paperclip v2026.824.1, the paperclipai npm package on its stable channel. The pin lives in image/versions.env and is baked into the golden image, and image/build.sh is the only entrypoint that bakes one — so the version on your machine is a version that was tested against our integration first.
In its own Postgres 16 on your VM, alongside durable paperclip_data and paperclip_home volumes. Nightly restic backups run offsite, and one click produces an export with the Postgres dump, your agent workspaces, and the compose files needed to run the same stack yourself.
Every office ships with all of these mounted and wired to each other. You do not pick one.
Five minutes to a running Paperclip you own, with the workers already reporting to it.
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