Integrating Paperclip with OpenClaw Agents
Paperclip manages orchestration, OpenClaw executes actions. The team is an AI team with real computing capabilities: Paperclip sets tasks and manages the budget, while OpenClaw agents work with files, the browser, the shell, and messengers.
How does integration work?
Paperclip Manager agent decomposes the task → sends subtasks to OpenClaw agents via API → OpenClaw executes actions on the server / in the browser / in messengers → returns the results → Paperclip aggregates and makes the next decision.
Setting up
An OpenClaw instance registers in Paperclip as a pool of execution agents. Each OpenClaw agent has a profile: available tools and a specialization (web agent, file agent, communication agent). Paperclip routes tasks to the agent with the appropriate profile.
Practical scenario
Paperclip Research Manager receives the task "Collect competitor information." Delegates:
- OpenClaw Web Agent 1 → parsing competitors' websites
- OpenClaw Web Agent 2 → Search for news mentions
- OpenClaw File Agent → saving results in a structured report
Paperclip aggregates, the Summary Agent writes the final analysis, and the Notification Agent sends it to Slack.