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Who it is forAn operator who wants agents to report on storage health each day without asking them by hand.
The problemRoutine checks get skipped when nobody remembers to run them, and status updates are scattered across agents.
The outcomeScheduled routines that run the daily storage check and daily agent standup, where agents ask each other questions.
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
- Follow chapter 8 (guide/08-routines-and-standups.md) to set up routines in your Paperclip company.
- Copy the daily storage check from prompts/routines/ into a routine and assign it to the storage agent.
- Copy the daily agent standup from prompts/routines/ into a second routine.
- Run each routine once by hand and read the output before you rely on the schedule.
Prompt for your agent
Using the repo theNetworkChuck/paperclip-guide, set up the daily storage check and daily agent standup routines from prompts/routines/ in a Paperclip company on <target machine>. Report each routine's schedule and the output of one manual run. Verify that the standup output includes questions the agents sent to each other.
Caveat. The guide's routines and standup are described in chapter 8 and the take-home prompts, and their exact screens may differ in the current Paperclip release.
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