A Paperclip alternative you install and talk to

Paperclip is a server you run to operate a company of agents through tickets, budgets and an org chart you design, built for technical operators. Murage is an app you install and talk to: one Chief of Staff who builds the team and runs it, with memory, voice and your chat apps.

The short answer

Paperclip is a company you operate. Murage is a Chief of Staff you talk to, who builds the team and runs it.

Which should you choose?

Murage

Open source
On your computer
The AI you choose

Who does the work: A Chief of Staff and a team

Paperclip

Free (MIT)
A Node.js server you run
Hard spend limits per agent

Who does the work: An org chart you design

Download Murage

Checked October 2026 (October 9, 2026) against Paperclip’s GitHub README, install guide, release v2026.1005.0 and paperclip.ing.

Two different shapes.

You talk to one Chief of Staff. It builds the team, and each bot runs the engine that suits its job, on the plan or key you already have. An engine is the AI that does a bot’s thinking. To run teams and use tools, pick a tool-capable one: the built-in Fuigo engine with a supported model, Claude Code, Codex or Hermes. A plain OpenAI-compatible endpoint works for chat and drafting only. Portraits made with Murage’s own avatar generator. See every engine

Murage does not run Paperclip. It takes the same idea a layer up

Paperclip is software you operate. Murage is a Chief of Staff you talk to.

Paperclip gives you the controls of a company of agents: you run the server, design the org chart, write the tickets and set the budgets. Murage starts with a conversation. Tell your Chief of Staff what you need, and it proposes the team, builds the org chart for the job and runs the work on your computer. You can reshape it whenever you like.

What Murage adds on top

An app you install on Mac, Windows or Linux. No server, database or Node.js to look after
A Chief of Staff you talk to in plain English, who builds the org chart for each job: teams, team leads and bots, on a Team map you can reshape
Memory: each bot keeps its own memory, stored on your computer
Voice calls with any bot in the app, and voice notes from your Chief in Telegram, Slack, Discord and WhatsApp; on WhatsApp, send it a voice message and it hears you
79 ready-made teams and 2,243 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard for risky instructions, ready on day one

Why Murage is open source Every engine Murage runs

An org chart the Chief builds for you.

In Paperclip you design the org chart by hand: roles, reporting lines and permissions. In Murage you describe the job, and your Chief of Staff proposes the teams, a lead for each and the bots under them. It shows up on the Team map, and you can reshape it any time.

Ember

Chief of Staff

Runs your teams: hands out the work, chases it and brings the results back to you.

Founder Setup · 4 bots
- PatchPatch (Ops)Team leadSteady, organized, allergic to loose ends
- MiraMira (Brand)Sharp, opinionated about what makes you different
- CoinCoin (Numbers)Focused, authoritative, shows the work
- SentrySentry (Counsel)Calm and careful; says when you need a real lawyer
Growth · 5 bots
- BeaconBeacon (Channels)Team leadUpbeat, plans the week and sticks to it
- ScoutScout (Research)Curious; marks what it couldn’t confirm
- QuillQuill (Copy)Works from your examples and tone notes
- LensLens (Analyst)Precise, says what changed and why it matters
- VerdictVerdict (Quality Gate)Direct and exacting; flags gaps for review
Customer Desk · 2 bots
- MendMend (Support)Team leadPatient and kind, never promises what you have not approved
- RioRio (Sales)Warm and persistent, follows up without being pushy

An example team. Portraits made with Murage’s own avatar generator.

At a glance.

Ten things buyers weigh up, including the ones where they’re ahead.

What matters

Murage

Paperclip

Install an app, nothing to host
No server, database or Node.js to run
Yes
No
A Node.js server with an embedded PostgreSQL database
Source
Give it work by talking
Paperclip: you set a goal, then work runs as tickets
Yes
Partly
Issues and tickets tied to projects and goals
Source
An org chart of your agents
Murage’s Chief builds it; in Paperclip you design it
Yes
Yes
Roles, reporting lines and permissions you design
Source
Memory across jobs
Paperclip lists memory on its roadmap
Yes
Coming
“Memory / Knowledge” is on its roadmap
Source
Voice and chat apps
Calls, plus Telegram, Slack and Discord
Yes
Partly
Slack thread replies; no voice described
Source
Ready-made teams and skills
79 teams and 2,243 skills in Murage
Yes
Partly
Import and export whole companies; a Skills Manager, Skill Studio and skill sync from GitHub
Source
Asks before acting outside, by default
Messaging someone new, posting, paying, deleting
Yes
Partly
Approval workflows you set up; per-action defaults not stated
Source
Hard spend limits
Murage sets a limit per project, in minutes and tokens
Partly
Yes
Budgets per agent, project and goal with hard stops
Source
Runs OpenClaw
As a bot’s engine, on OpenClaw’s own tools
Yes
Yes
OpenClaw works as an agent on the team
Source
Keeps working with your computer off, today
Paperclip, if you run it on a server
No
Partly
A local instance or a remote deploy
Source

Each of Paperclip’s marks links the page it comes from, checked October 9, 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it on the page named, not that it’s missing.

Both apps are open source. AI usage and any hosting or optional services are separate. Paperclip publishes no price; both are open source.

See one job from brief to result

Where your work lives.

Murage

Your computer

MemoryFilesChats

Your memory, files and chats are stored on your computer. What a bot sends to your AI, and to any app or service you connect, goes to them.

Paperclip

A machine you host

MemoryConfig

A Node.js server you run, with an embedded PostgreSQL database locally, or deployed to a server.

Who does the work.

You brief one Chief of Staff. It builds a team of specialists for the job, and the team keeps its memory for next time. You can put a reviewer on any team to check work before it reaches you. Portraits made with Murage’s own avatar generator.

Paperclip

Agents with roles, reporting lines and permissions that you set up, working through tickets on scheduled heartbeats.

What Murage adds for a Paperclip user.

The brief

“Go through my inbox before I get in. Draft replies in my voice. Send nothing.”

What came back

Twelve emails came in. The team drafted eight replies, set four aside, and left two questions only the owner could answer. Nothing was sent.

Needs from you, in the team’s own report

Dana Brooks, Acme Studio · RenewalThe prior contract terms
Jordan Lee, Brightline Design · Pricing for 20 seatsThe per-seat price, and whether we offer a pilot
Priya S. · Export to PDF?Confirm the exact steps
Ben C. · Refund requestMoney. Check the billing record first

Replay of a real run on demo data. The company is made up. Engine: Flux Auto, worked 1m 41s. Watch the run

Install it and talk

Download Murage for Mac, Windows or Linux and start talking. There’s no server, database or Node.js to look after.

An org chart the Chief builds for you

Describe the job and your Chief of Staff proposes the teams, their leads and the bots, on a Team map you can reshape. No org chart to draw by hand, no tickets to write.

Memory that carries over

Each bot keeps its own memory, stored on your computer, so tomorrow’s job starts where today’s left off.

Voice and your chat apps

Call any bot in the app and just talk. Message your Chief in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp and ask for a voice note; it sends one in its own voice.

Ready on day one

79 ready-made teams, 2,243 skills scanned by Skill Guard, and 1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key.

A stop line by default

New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.

Where Paperclip is ahead.

Fair’s fair. If one of these matters most to you, it may be the better choice today.

1
Budgets per agent
Budgets per agent, project and goal with hard stops: an agent pauses at its limit. Murage budgets are per project, in minutes and tokens, so Paperclip is ahead on per-agent dollar budgets.
2
Bash and webhooks as agents
Bash scripts and HTTP webhooks can work as agents on the team, alongside OpenClaw.
3
Tickets on your own server
Issues, approval workflows and audit logs on a server you control, which keeps going with your laptop closed. Murage runs on whichever computer it is installed on, so for work around the clock you put it on a machine you leave on, such as your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will run one for you.
4
Many companies, one install
One deployment runs many companies with separate data, and you can import and export a whole company.

Which should you choose?

Paperclip is a company you operate. Murage is a Chief of Staff you talk to, who builds the team and runs it.

Choose Murage if

You want to install an app and talk, not run a server
You want an org chart the Chief builds for you, with teams and team leads you can reshape
You want a Chief of Staff with memory and voice, in Slack, Telegram and Discord
You want ready-made teams and skills on day one
You want a stop line by default: new bots ask before they act

Download Murage

Choose Paperclip if

You want hard spending limits per agent and per goal, today
You want a ticket-based company of agents on your own server

Still deciding? Read how we check that a job is finished, then try one of your own.

Every detail.

Getting in

Price to start
MurageOpen source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service
PaperclipOpen source (MIT). Agents’ own plans bill as usual
How you set it up
MurageDownload the app. Nothing to host
PaperclipRun an onboarding command (npx paperclipai onboard) on Node.js 24.11 or newer
Account needed
MurageNone for Murage; you sign in to the AI plan you choose
PaperclipNone for Paperclip; a cloud option is listed as a waitlist
Who it suits
MurageAnyone who can describe a job in plain English
PaperclipTechnical operators who run a company of agents

Where it runs

Where agents run
MurageOn your computer
PaperclipOn the machine or server you host it on, with a local database under ~/.paperclip
Platforms
MurageMac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone
PaperclipmacOS, Linux or WSL2 per its install guide
Laptop closed
MurageYes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you
PaperclipYes, if you install it as a background service on a server
Open source
MurageYes, AGPL-3.0
PaperclipYes, MIT

Brains

Which AI
MurageThe engine you choose, per bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Build, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Kimi, Qwen, Droid, OpenCode, Pi, local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and any OpenAI-compatible API (chat only).
PaperclipClaude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and HTTP or webhook agents such as OpenClaw
Bring the AI plan you already pay for
MurageYes: Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build sign-ins work, plus API keys and local models
PaperclipYes: local Claude or Codex sign-in works with the provider CLI on the host
Swap the engine per bot
MurageYes; memory and approvals stay put
PaperclipYes, per agent through its adapters

The team

Who builds the org chart
MurageEmber proposes the teams, leads and bots for each job, and you reshape them on the Team map
PaperclipYou design it: roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions
How work is handed out
MurageEmber and team leads hand work to the right bot
PaperclipIssues and tickets tied to goals; agents wake on assignment or schedule
Projects
MurageYes: projects split a job into cards on a board, with a goal, files, chat and shared memory
PaperclipProjects and goals that tickets roll up to
Ready-made teams and skills
Murage79 ready-made teams and 2,243 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard
PaperclipCompany import and export, a Skills Manager, Skill Studio and skill sync from GitHub

Hands

Apps
Murage1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP, and it builds the connector itself if one doesn’t exist
PaperclipAn MCP tool gateway and connector setup on one screen; no app count published
Your own signed-in browser
MurageMurage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share
PaperclipBrowser Use Cloud shows live browser tabs you can watch, take over and keep after a run
Scheduled work
MurageRoutines on a schedule and webhooks, while your computer is on
PaperclipHeartbeats wake agents on a schedule or for assigned work

Control

Approvals
MurageNew bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it. On Claude Code and Codex, the stop line also covers tools from MCP servers you add. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.
PaperclipConfigurable review and approval stages, plus pause, reassign or stop controls that you set up
Spend limits
MurageProject budgets in minutes and tokens: Murage stops starting new work at your limit and lets running turns finish. No per-agent dollar caps
PaperclipCompany, agent and project budgets with threshold alerts and pauses at the limit
Lessons from corrections
MurageStored on your computer; see, edit and undo them in each bot’s Learning screen
PaperclipMemory and Knowledge is in progress on its roadmap
Record of what happened
MurageAn activity log shows what each bot did and where
PaperclipAn audit trail of mutating actions, cost events and approvals

Your data

Where memory and files live
MurageDesktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds
PaperclipOn your host, under ~/.paperclip/instances, with secrets in its secrets manager
How it signs in
MurageThrough your own accounts; Murage keeps sign-ins and never hands them to a bot
PaperclipThrough the agents’ own CLIs and your connectors

Reach

Phone
MurageiPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team
PaperclipA responsive web UI; the README says “Mobile Ready” and no native app is described
Chat apps
MurageMessage your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp
PaperclipSlack round-trips: replies on the board reach the linked Slack thread
Voice
MurageCall any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own
PaperclipNot described in its README

Question	Murage	Paperclip
Getting in
Price to start	Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service	Open source (MIT). Agents’ own plans bill as usual
How you set it up	Download the app. Nothing to host	Run an onboarding command (npx paperclipai onboard) on Node.js 24.11 or newer
Account needed	None for Murage; you sign in to the AI plan you choose	None for Paperclip; a cloud option is listed as a waitlist
Who it suits	Anyone who can describe a job in plain English	Technical operators who run a company of agents
Where it runs
Where agents run	On your computer	On the machine or server you host it on, with a local database under ~/.paperclip
Platforms	Mac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone	macOS, Linux or WSL2 per its install guide
Laptop closed	Yes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you	Yes, if you install it as a background service on a server
Open source	Yes, AGPL-3.0	Yes, MIT
Brains
Which AI	The engine you choose, per bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Build, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Kimi, Qwen, Droid, OpenCode, Pi, local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and any OpenAI-compatible API (chat only).	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and HTTP or webhook agents such as OpenClaw
Bring the AI plan you already pay for	Yes: Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build sign-ins work, plus API keys and local models	Yes: local Claude or Codex sign-in works with the provider CLI on the host
Swap the engine per bot	Yes; memory and approvals stay put	Yes, per agent through its adapters
The team
Who builds the org chart	Ember proposes the teams, leads and bots for each job, and you reshape them on the Team map	You design it: roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions
How work is handed out	Ember and team leads hand work to the right bot	Issues and tickets tied to goals; agents wake on assignment or schedule
Projects	Yes: projects split a job into cards on a board, with a goal, files, chat and shared memory	Projects and goals that tickets roll up to
Ready-made teams and skills	79 ready-made teams and 2,243 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard	Company import and export, a Skills Manager, Skill Studio and skill sync from GitHub
Hands
Apps	1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP, and it builds the connector itself if one doesn’t exist	An MCP tool gateway and connector setup on one screen; no app count published
Your own signed-in browser	Murage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share	Browser Use Cloud shows live browser tabs you can watch, take over and keep after a run
Scheduled work	Routines on a schedule and webhooks, while your computer is on	Heartbeats wake agents on a schedule or for assigned work
Control
Approvals	New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it. On Claude Code and Codex, the stop line also covers tools from MCP servers you add. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.	Configurable review and approval stages, plus pause, reassign or stop controls that you set up
Spend limits	Project budgets in minutes and tokens: Murage stops starting new work at your limit and lets running turns finish. No per-agent dollar caps	Company, agent and project budgets with threshold alerts and pauses at the limit
Lessons from corrections	Stored on your computer; see, edit and undo them in each bot’s Learning screen	Memory and Knowledge is in progress on its roadmap
Record of what happened	An activity log shows what each bot did and where	An audit trail of mutating actions, cost events and approvals
Your data
Where memory and files live	Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds	On your host, under ~/.paperclip/instances, with secrets in its secrets manager
How it signs in	Through your own accounts; Murage keeps sign-ins and never hands them to a bot	Through the agents’ own CLIs and your connectors
Reach
Phone	iPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team	A responsive web UI; the README says “Mobile Ready” and no native app is described
Chat apps	Message your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp	Slack round-trips: replies on the board reach the linked Slack thread
Voice	Call any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own	Not described in its README

Same job, both ways.

Five real jobs, walked through with Murage and with Paperclip.

1
Stand up a content team
With Murage
Tell Ember the goal. Ember proposes the team, a lead and the bots, and they start on your computer.
With Paperclip
You define the goal, hire agents into your org chart, then approve and run them.
2
Cap what a job can spend
With Murage
Give the project a limit in minutes and tokens. Murage stops starting new work at the limit and lets running turns finish.
With Paperclip
Set a budget per agent, project or company. The agent pauses at the limit.
3
Keep working while you are away
With Murage
A routine on your computer runs while it is on. Closed-laptop running waits for Murage Cloud.
With Paperclip
Heartbeats wake agents on a schedule, and a background service on a server keeps going with your laptop closed.
4
Reuse a team across people or clients
With Murage
Export the team as a file and each person imports it. Imported bots start on Ask.
With Paperclip
Export a whole company and import it elsewhere, or run several companies with separate data in one install.
5
Check in from your phone
With Murage
Approve from the Murage app on iPhone or Android.
With Paperclip
Open the responsive web UI in your phone’s browser, or answer in a linked Slack thread.

Coming from Paperclip: your first day

Your agents’ own plans carry over, because Claude Code and Codex are Murage engines too. Keep Paperclip for hard per-agent budgets or a server that never needs your laptop.

1
Download Murage. On Mac, Windows or Linux, with no server to run.
2
Pick an engine. Choose Fuigo, Claude Code, Codex or another, per bot, on the plan you already pay for.
3
Tell Ember the job. Describe the org chart you ran in Paperclip. Ember proposes the teams, leads and bots.
4
Connect your accounts. Sign in to your apps through your own accounts, or paste an MCP link.

Questions about Murage and Paperclip.

Does Murage have an org chart like Paperclip’s?

Yes, and your Chief of Staff builds it for you. Describe the job and it proposes teams, each with a team lead and the bots under it, shown on the Team map. You can reshape it any time. In Paperclip you design the org chart yourself, with roles, reporting lines and permissions.

Does Murage have spend limits?

Yes, per project. Give a project a limit in minutes and tokens. Murage stops starting new work at your limit and lets running turns finish. Murage also tracks usage and cost per bot. Paperclip’s budgets per agent, project and goal pause an agent at its limit, so if per-agent dollar budgets matter most to you, Paperclip is ahead there.

Can Murage run OpenClaw?

Yes. Pick OpenClaw as a bot’s engine and your OpenClaw agent is reachable in Murage alongside your other bots. An OpenClaw bot runs on OpenClaw’s own tools. Murage’s teammates, memory, computer, browser and connected apps aren’t available on it. Paperclip runs OpenClaw agents too.

Does Murage have heartbeats?

Murage has routines: scheduled work for any bot or team. They run while your computer is on and Murage is open. Paperclip’s heartbeats wake agents on a schedule, and on a server they keep going with your laptop closed.

Can my staff use it too?

Yes. Each person runs Murage on their own computer, with their own AI sign-in. Build a team once, export it, and everyone imports the same bots, skills and routines; logins never travel. Bots can post drafts to your team’s Slack channels through connected apps, with your approval. Shared workspaces for teams are coming soon to Murage Cloud.

AGPL scares my company. Should it?

Running Murage unmodified inside your company doesn’t require you to publish anything, and the license covers Murage’s code, not the work your bots produce. AGPL’s source-sharing duty applies if you change Murage and distribute it, or let other people use your changed version over a network: then you share those changes. It also means nobody, including us, can take the code closed later. This isn’t legal advice; have your counsel read the license.

Is Murage made by Paperclip?

No. Murage is an independent open-source project from Ferrox Labs. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Paperclip, and it doesn’t run Paperclip.

Sources, checked October 9, 2026

Murage is made by Ferrox Labs, a small team. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we’ll fix it.

Paperclip, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Codex and Cursor are trademarks of their respective owners. Murage is not affiliated with or endorsed by their owners; the names and logos are used only to identify the products compared.

Get started in four steps

1
Download Murage
For Mac, Windows and Linux.
2
Pick an engine
Your plan, a key or a local model.
3
Meet Ember
Your Chief of Staff, who builds the team.
4
Give the first job
Start small and approve what it drafts.

Download Murage All downloads and install notes

Give your first job to Murage.

Download the app, connect the AI you already pay for, and tell your Chief of Staff what needs doing. Plan on about ten minutes from install to a working team.

Download Murage

No account needed · Runs on the AI plan you already pay for

A Paperclip alternative you install and talk to

The short answer

Paperclip is a company you operate. Murage is a Chief of Staff you talk to, who builds the team and runs it.

Which should you choose?

Murage

Open source
On your computer
The AI you choose

Who does the work: A Chief of Staff and a team

Paperclip

Free (MIT)
A Node.js server you run
Hard spend limits per agent

Who does the work: An org chart you design

Download Murage

Checked October 2026 (October 9, 2026) against Paperclip’s GitHub README, install guide, release v2026.1005.0 and paperclip.ing.

Question	Murage	Paperclip
Getting in
Price to start	Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service	Open source (MIT). Agents’ own plans bill as usual
How you set it up	Download the app. Nothing to host	Run an onboarding command (npx paperclipai onboard) on Node.js 24.11 or newer
Account needed	None for Murage; you sign in to the AI plan you choose	None for Paperclip; a cloud option is listed as a waitlist
Who it suits	Anyone who can describe a job in plain English	Technical operators who run a company of agents
Where it runs
Where agents run	On your computer	On the machine or server you host it on, with a local database under ~/.paperclip
Platforms	Mac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone	macOS, Linux or WSL2 per its install guide
Laptop closed	Yes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you	Yes, if you install it as a background service on a server
Open source	Yes, AGPL-3.0	Yes, MIT
Brains
Which AI	The engine you choose, per bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Build, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Kimi, Qwen, Droid, OpenCode, Pi, local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and any OpenAI-compatible API (chat only).	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and HTTP or webhook agents such as OpenClaw
Bring the AI plan you already pay for	Yes: Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build sign-ins work, plus API keys and local models	Yes: local Claude or Codex sign-in works with the provider CLI on the host
Swap the engine per bot	Yes; memory and approvals stay put	Yes, per agent through its adapters
The team
Who builds the org chart	Ember proposes the teams, leads and bots for each job, and you reshape them on the Team map	You design it: roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions
How work is handed out	Ember and team leads hand work to the right bot	Issues and tickets tied to goals; agents wake on assignment or schedule
Projects	Yes: projects split a job into cards on a board, with a goal, files, chat and shared memory	Projects and goals that tickets roll up to
Ready-made teams and skills	79 ready-made teams and 2,243 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard	Company import and export, a Skills Manager, Skill Studio and skill sync from GitHub
Hands
Apps	1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP, and it builds the connector itself if one doesn’t exist	An MCP tool gateway and connector setup on one screen; no app count published
Your own signed-in browser	Murage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share	Browser Use Cloud shows live browser tabs you can watch, take over and keep after a run
Scheduled work	Routines on a schedule and webhooks, while your computer is on	Heartbeats wake agents on a schedule or for assigned work
Control
Approvals	New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it. On Claude Code and Codex, the stop line also covers tools from MCP servers you add. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.	Configurable review and approval stages, plus pause, reassign or stop controls that you set up
Spend limits	Project budgets in minutes and tokens: Murage stops starting new work at your limit and lets running turns finish. No per-agent dollar caps	Company, agent and project budgets with threshold alerts and pauses at the limit
Lessons from corrections	Stored on your computer; see, edit and undo them in each bot’s Learning screen	Memory and Knowledge is in progress on its roadmap
Record of what happened	An activity log shows what each bot did and where	An audit trail of mutating actions, cost events and approvals
Your data
Where memory and files live	Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds	On your host, under ~/.paperclip/instances, with secrets in its secrets manager
How it signs in	Through your own accounts; Murage keeps sign-ins and never hands them to a bot	Through the agents’ own CLIs and your connectors
Reach
Phone	iPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team	A responsive web UI; the README says “Mobile Ready” and no native app is described
Chat apps	Message your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp	Slack round-trips: replies on the board reach the linked Slack thread
Voice	Call any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own	Not described in its README

Murage

Paperclip

Getting in

Price to start

Open source desktop app; Murage Cloud is an optional paid hosted service

Open source (MIT). Agents’ own plans bill as usual

How you set it up

Download the app. Nothing to host

Run an onboarding command (npx paperclipai onboard) on Node.js 24.11 or newer

Account needed

None for Murage; you sign in to the AI plan you choose

None for Paperclip; a cloud option is listed as a waitlist

Who it suits

Anyone who can describe a job in plain English

Technical operators who run a company of agents

Where it runs

Where agents run

On your computer

On the machine or server you host it on, with a local database under ~/.paperclip

Platforms

Mac, Windows and Linux, plus an iPhone app and an Android app; Telegram on your phone

macOS, Linux or WSL2 per its install guide

Laptop closed

Yes, on any computer you leave on, including your own remote server. Murage Cloud (coming soon) will look after one for you

Yes, if you install it as a background service on a server

Open source

Yes, AGPL-3.0

Yes, MIT

Brains

Which AI

The engine you choose, per bot: Fuigo (built in), Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, Grok Build, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Kimi, Qwen, Droid, OpenCode, Pi, local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and any OpenAI-compatible API (chat only).

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and HTTP or webhook agents such as OpenClaw

Bring the AI plan you already pay for

Yes: Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build sign-ins work, plus API keys and local models

Yes: local Claude or Codex sign-in works with the provider CLI on the host

Swap the engine per bot

Yes; memory and approvals stay put

Yes, per agent through its adapters

The team

Who builds the org chart

Ember proposes the teams, leads and bots for each job, and you reshape them on the Team map

You design it: roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions

How work is handed out

Ember and team leads hand work to the right bot

Issues and tickets tied to goals; agents wake on assignment or schedule

Projects

Yes: projects split a job into cards on a board, with a goal, files, chat and shared memory

Projects and goals that tickets roll up to

Ready-made teams and skills

79 ready-made teams and 2,243 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard

Company import and export, a Skills Manager, Skill Studio and skill sync from GitHub

Hands

Apps

1,600+ apps through Flux Router or your own connected-apps key, plus any public API and any MCP, and it builds the connector itself if one doesn’t exist

An MCP tool gateway and connector setup on one screen; no app count published

Your own signed-in browser

Murage for Chrome works in your own signed-in Chrome, in the tabs you share

Browser Use Cloud shows live browser tabs you can watch, take over and keep after a run

Scheduled work

Routines on a schedule and webhooks, while your computer is on

Heartbeats wake agents on a schedule or for assigned work

Control

Approvals

New bots start on Ask. On Full access, a bot stops before messaging anyone new, posting publicly, paying, or deleting outside its folder, unless you have allowed it for that task. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off for your own chats; routines still stop at it. On Claude Code and Codex, the stop line also covers tools from MCP servers you add. On Hermes and other ACP engines, Ask and the stop line cover only what the engine asks Murage about.

Configurable review and approval stages, plus pause, reassign or stop controls that you set up

Spend limits

Project budgets in minutes and tokens: Murage stops starting new work at your limit and lets running turns finish. No per-agent dollar caps

Company, agent and project budgets with threshold alerts and pauses at the limit

Lessons from corrections

Stored on your computer; see, edit and undo them in each bot’s Learning screen

Memory and Knowledge is in progress on its roadmap

Record of what happened

An activity log shows what each bot did and where

An audit trail of mutating actions, cost events and approvals

Your data

Where memory and files live

Desktop: on your computer, open to read and edit. Cloud: on your EU-hosted server, encrypted with a key Ferrox Labs holds

On your host, under ~/.paperclip/instances, with secrets in its secrets manager

How it signs in

Through your own accounts; Murage keeps sign-ins and never hands them to a bot

Through the agents’ own CLIs and your connectors

Reach

Phone

iPhone and Android app that opens your workspace: approvals, questions and calls with your team

A responsive web UI; the README says “Mobile Ready” and no native app is described

Chat apps

Message your Chief of Staff on Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp

Slack round-trips: replies on the board reach the linked Slack thread

Voice

Call any bot in the app and just talk; bots leave voice notes. Ask your Chief for a voice note in Telegram, Slack, Discord or WhatsApp, and on WhatsApp send it one of your own

Not described in its README

A Paperclip alternative you install and talk to

Two different shapes.

Paperclip is software you operate. Murage is a Chief of Staff you talk to.

An org chart the Chief builds for you.

At a glance.

Where your work lives.

Who does the work.

What Murage adds for a Paperclip user.

Install it and talk

An org chart the Chief builds for you

Memory that carries over

Voice and your chat apps

Ready on day one

A stop line by default

Where Paperclip is ahead.

Which should you choose?

Choose Murage if

Choose Paperclip if

Every detail.

Getting in

Where it runs

Brains

The team

Hands

Control

Your data

Reach

Same job, both ways.

Stand up a content team

Cap what a job can spend

Keep working while you are away

Reuse a team across people or clients

Check in from your phone

Coming from Paperclip: your first day

Questions about Murage and Paperclip.

Get started in four steps

Download Murage

Pick an engine

Meet Ember

Give the first job

Read next.

Give your first job to Murage.

Search murage.ai

A Paperclip alternative you install and talk to

Two different shapes.

Paperclip is software you operate. Murage is a Chief of Staff you talk to.

An org chart the Chief builds for you.

At a glance.

Where your work lives.

Who does the work.

What Murage adds for a Paperclip user.

Install it and talk

An org chart the Chief builds for you

Memory that carries over

Voice and your chat apps

Ready on day one

A stop line by default

Where Paperclip is ahead.

Which should you choose?

Choose Murage if

Choose Paperclip if

Every detail.

Getting in

Where it runs

Brains

The team

Hands

Control

Your data

Reach

Same job, both ways.

Stand up a content team

Cap what a job can spend

Keep working while you are away

Reuse a team across people or clients

Check in from your phone

Coming from Paperclip: your first day

Questions about Murage and Paperclip.

Get started in four steps

Download Murage