Murage vs Paperclip

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

The app is free
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 against official pages and the sources below on September 26, 2026.

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: Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, or the built-in Fuigo engine with a supported model. 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 Ubuntu. 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 notebook, plus managed memory stored on your computer
Voice calls with any bot in the app, and your Chief in Telegram, Slack and Discord: send a voice message, get a voice reply
68 ready-made teams and 2,237 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard for risky instructions, ready on day one

Why the app is free 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
Not stated
Not mentioned in its README
Source
Ready-made teams and skills
68 teams and 2,237 skills in Murage
Yes
Partly
Import and export whole companies; a Skills Manager and Skills Store
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 tracks cost per bot, with no hard caps yet
No
Yes
Budgets per agent, project and goal with hard stops
Source
Runs OpenClaw
Coming to Murage as a bot engine
Coming
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 September 26, 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it on the page named, not that it’s missing.

Both apps are free. 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 Ubuntu 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 notebook, plus managed 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 or Discord, and a voice message gets a voice reply.

Ready on day one

68 ready-made teams, 2,237 skills scanned by Skill Guard, and 1,500+ 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: shell commands and file edits.

Where Paperclip is ahead.

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

1
Hard spend limits
Budgets per agent, project and goal with hard stops: overspending pauses the agent and cancels its queued work. Murage tracks usage and cost per bot but has no hard caps yet.
2
OpenClaw on the team today
OpenClaw, Bash scripts and HTTP webhooks can all work as agents. OpenClaw is coming to Murage as a bot engine, but it isn’t there yet.
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 while your computer is on, until Murage Cloud opens.
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
You want OpenClaw on the team today

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

Every detail.

Question	Murage	Paperclip
How you set it up	Download the app for Mac, Windows or Ubuntu. Nothing to host. Murage opens the one install line for each engine you pick	Run a Node.js server (Node.js 24.11+ and pnpm 9.15+) from an install script or a git clone, with an embedded PostgreSQL database locally
How you give it work	Talk to your Chief of Staff in plain English, in the app or from your chat apps. It proposes the team and hands out the work	Issues and tickets tied to projects and goals. Agents pick them up when assigned or on scheduled heartbeats
An org chart of your agents	Yes, built for you. The Chief sets up teams with team leads for each job, shown on the Team map, and you can reshape it	Yes, designed by you: roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions
Memory across jobs	Yes. Each bot keeps a notebook, plus managed memory stored on your computer	On its roadmap (“Memory / Knowledge”), not shipped yet. Agents resume a task’s context across heartbeats
Voice and chat apps	Call any bot in the app. Your Chief answers in Telegram, Slack and Discord, and a voice message gets a voice reply	Not mentioned in its docs
Ready-made teams and skills	68 ready-made teams and 2,237 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard for risky instructions	Import and export whole companies (agents, skills, projects, routines), plus a Skills Manager and Skills Store. No ready-made count published
Scheduled work	Routines: scheduled jobs for any bot or team, while your computer is on	Heartbeats: agents wake on a schedule, check their work and act
Hard spend limits	No. Usage and cost are tracked per bot, but there are no hard caps yet	Yes. Budgets per agent, project and goal with hard stops: overspending pauses the agent and cancels its queued work
Runs OpenClaw	Not yet. OpenClaw is coming as a Murage engine	Yes, as an agent on the team
Asks before acting outside, 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. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off. 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: Hermes asks before shell commands and file edits, but not before MCP or connected-app tools.	Approval workflows, execution policies with review stages, and audit logs that you set up. Per-action defaults aren’t stated
Which AI	The engine you choose, per bot: Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, Grok Build, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Kimi, Qwen, Droid, OpenCode, Pi, Fuigo (built in), local models (Ollama, LM Studio) and any OpenAI-compatible API (chat only). OpenClaw is coming.	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bash, HTTP webhooks and OpenClaw, plus adapter plugins
On your phone	The web app, plus your Chief in Telegram, Slack and Discord. iPhone and Android apps coming	A responsive web UI in your phone’s browser. No native app
Keeps working with your laptop closed	Not today. It runs while your computer is on; Murage Cloud isn’t open yet	Yes, if you run it on a server
Price	Free app. Your AI provider bills as usual	Free. The agents’ own plans bill as usual
Open source	Yes, AGPL-3.0	Yes, MIT

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 hard spend limits?

Not yet. Murage tracks usage and cost per bot, and each task can make at most 16 hand-offs per turn and 32 in total, but there are no hard caps. Paperclip’s budgets per agent, project and goal pause an agent when it overspends. If hard limits matter most to you, Paperclip is ahead there.

Can Murage run OpenClaw?

Not yet. OpenClaw is coming to Murage as a bot engine, the way Hermes runs today. For now Murage runs Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, local models and more under named bots, and Paperclip runs OpenClaw agents today.

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 always-on workspaces will come with Murage Cloud, which isn’t open yet.

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 September 26, 2026

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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.

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Murage vs Paperclip

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

The app is free
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 against official pages and the sources below on September 26, 2026.

Murage

Paperclip

How you set it up

Download the app for Mac, Windows or Ubuntu. Nothing to host. Murage opens the one install line for each engine you pick

Run a Node.js server (Node.js 24.11+ and pnpm 9.15+) from an install script or a git clone, with an embedded PostgreSQL database locally

How you give it work

Talk to your Chief of Staff in plain English, in the app or from your chat apps. It proposes the team and hands out the work

Issues and tickets tied to projects and goals. Agents pick them up when assigned or on scheduled heartbeats

An org chart of your agents

Yes, built for you. The Chief sets up teams with team leads for each job, shown on the Team map, and you can reshape it

Yes, designed by you: roles, titles, reporting lines and permissions

Memory across jobs

Yes. Each bot keeps a notebook, plus managed memory stored on your computer

On its roadmap (“Memory / Knowledge”), not shipped yet. Agents resume a task’s context across heartbeats

Voice and chat apps

Call any bot in the app. Your Chief answers in Telegram, Slack and Discord, and a voice message gets a voice reply

Not mentioned in its docs

Ready-made teams and skills

68 ready-made teams and 2,237 skills, each scanned by Skill Guard for risky instructions

Import and export whole companies (agents, skills, projects, routines), plus a Skills Manager and Skills Store. No ready-made count published

Scheduled work

Routines: scheduled jobs for any bot or team, while your computer is on

Heartbeats: agents wake on a schedule, check their work and act

Hard spend limits

No. Usage and cost are tracked per bot, but there are no hard caps yet

Yes. Budgets per agent, project and goal with hard stops: overspending pauses the agent and cancels its queued work

Runs OpenClaw

Not yet. OpenClaw is coming as a Murage engine

Yes, as an agent on the team

Asks before acting outside, 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. Replies in an existing conversation go ahead on Auto and Full access. No limits turns the stop line off. 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: Hermes asks before shell commands and file edits, but not before MCP or connected-app tools.

Approval workflows, execution policies with review stages, and audit logs that you set up. Per-action defaults aren’t stated

Which AI

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

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Bash, HTTP webhooks and OpenClaw, plus adapter plugins

On your phone

The web app, plus your Chief in Telegram, Slack and Discord. iPhone and Android apps coming

A responsive web UI in your phone’s browser. No native app

Keeps working with your laptop closed

Not today. It runs while your computer is on; Murage Cloud isn’t open yet

Yes, if you run it on a server

Price

Free app. Your AI provider bills as usual

Free. The agents’ own plans bill as usual

Open source

Yes, AGPL-3.0

Yes, MIT