Paperclip — Agents as Employees (Observed Demo)

Paperclip — Agents as Employees (Observed Demo) An architecture diagram generated by Archify. You (Board) · direction + approvals · Architecture component You (Board) direction + approvals CEO Agent · hires + delegates · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) CEO Agent hires + delegates Manager Agents · coordinate sub-teams · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) Manager Agents coordinate sub-teams Worker Agents · remote harness · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) › Per-agent secret grants (no shared keys) Worker Agents remote harness Local Agents · local-model harness · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) › Per-agent secret grants (no shared keys) Local Agents local-model harness Security Reviewer · second harness · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) › Per-agent secret grants (no shared keys) Security Reviewer second harness Task Board · only comms channel · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) Task Board only comms channel Decision Gates · forms at forks · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) Decision Gates forms at forks Artifacts + Audit · traceable outputs · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) Artifacts + Audit traceable outputs Routines · scheduled stand-ups · Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) Routines scheduled stand-ups direction delegates assigns task hand-offs forks human approval reports Virtual company (meta harness, web UI) Per-agent secret grants (no shared keys) Legend Frontend Backend Database Security Message bus External

Observed in demo (2026-09-25)

  • • ~10 agents across 3+ harnesses, incl. remote and local models
  • • Real-world network investigation with a full artifact trail
  • • Per-agent secrets; decision forms at forks; audit log

Open questions (unverified)

  • • No public repo or launch date confirmed — demo stage
  • • Inter-harness task protocol and authZ model unclear
  • • Scaling beyond ~10 agents and CEO-hallucination failure modes unknown