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How to assign agent work with approvals and watchdog checks with Paperclip Guide

Create projects and tasks for agents, with human approvals and a watchdog that verifies done work.

Authorization notice. Paperclip Guide is dual-use. Only use it on software, sites and systems you own or have explicit permission to test.

Who it is forA team lead who has agents ready and needs to keep humans in charge of what they produce and what counts as finished.

The problemAgents can mark work as done without anyone checking it, and it is hard to see who decided what.

The outcomeAgents working through projects, tasks, Cases, Decisions and Artifacts, with approvals gating key steps and a watchdog double-checking completion.

What you need first

  • A machine to run Paperclip: a Mac, a Linux box, or Windows with WSL2, or a VM or cloud server
  • Node.js 24.11 or newer
  • At least one AI account for your agents: a Claude subscription or API key, an OpenAI account for Codex, or a local model through Ollama
  • Optional: a Hermes agent running on another machine, if you want to bring one in
  • Optional: a Flare account, for the Flare chapter

Steps

  1. Follow chapter 6 (guide/06-give-them-work.md) to create a project and assign tasks to your agents.
  2. Use Cases, Decisions and Artifacts to record what the agents produce, as the chapter describes.
  3. Follow chapter 7 (guide/07-approvals-and-watchdogs.md) to set approvals so the board signs off on key actions.
  4. Hire the Watchdog using prompts/hire/ and confirm it reviews tasks marked done.
  5. Use prompts/tasks/ to run the test-the-team task and check the results.

Prompt for your agent

Using the repo theNetworkChuck/paperclip-guide, follow chapters 6 and 7 to create one project in Paperclip with a test task for <agent name>. Report the task status, any approval requests, and the Watchdog's verdict. Verify that the task cannot be closed without the required approval.

Caveat. The guide describes approvals and watchdogs but its exact behavior depends on the Paperclip version you install, which the guide tested as 2026.916.1.

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