{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "paperclip", "name": "Paperclip", "vendor": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://paperclip.ing", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Paperclip is an open-source, self-hosted server and web interface that organises AI agents into a company with an org chart, tasks, budgets and approvals. It drives Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw and other harnesses through adapters.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json", "repo": "https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "paperclipai" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@paperclipai/mcp-server" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "No Paperclip account. The default `local_trusted` mode needs no login on loopback. Authenticated mode uses browser sessions for people, board API keys for scripts, and agent API keys or short-lived run JWTs as bearer tokens.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and MIT, self-hosted, with nothing to buy. The owner pays each harness's model provider or subscription. Paperclip Cloud is a waitlist with no published price.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the site or the server source (checked 2026-10-08). The only mention in the repository is a link to a third-party skill in a planning note.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 98666, "npmWeekly": 59684, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.paperclip.ing", "llmsTxt": "https://paperclip.ing/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "self-hosted", "local", "free", "no-card", "llms-txt", "docker", "mcp", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 59, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 620, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 60, "reliability": 66, "schema": 81, "security": 64, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": -10, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-04-10 to 2026-04-16. Ten advisories published in a week, four of them critical, among them GHSA-68qg-g8mg-6pr7 (CVE-2026-41679, 10.0, unauthenticated remote code execution through an import authorisation bypass) and two cross-tenant agent key flaws rated 9.9. All ten list 2026.416.0 as the fix. Fixed and published, a little under six months old, -5. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories", "2026-07-22. GHSA-x8hx-rhr2-9rf7 (9.6), drive-by remote code execution against the default `local_trusted` mode through DNS rebinding. The advisory names no patched version. The current source applies the hostname guard to `local_trusted` private deployments, so we read it as fixed without a documented version, -3. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories/GHSA-x8hx-rhr2-9rf7", "2026-04-16. GHSA-gqqj-85qm-8qhf (8.7), a `codex_local` agent inherited a Gmail connector from the owner's ChatGPT account and sent real email. The advisory names no patched version, and `codex_local` still defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, -2. https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/security/advisories/GHSA-gqqj-85qm-8qhf" ], "verdict": "Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026.", "bestFor": "Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.", "strengths": [ "One deployment runs agents on Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and OpenClaw through adapters, under one org chart", "Board approvals gate agent hires and the CEO agent's strategy, and connection actions can be set to Allowed, Ask first or Off", "Budgets by company, agent and project pause an agent at 100 per cent of recorded spend", "The running server publishes its REST surface as OpenAPI at `/api/openapi.json`, and the docs site answers every page as Markdown at `.md`", "Eleven stable releases between 20 July and 5 October 2026, each with dated notes and an upgrade guide" ], "weaknesses": [ "`claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host", "Twelve published security advisories since April 2026, five critical, including CVE-2026-41679 (unauthenticated remote code execution, fixed in 2026.416.0)", "Anonymous usage telemetry is on by default and goes to telemetry.paperclip.ing until an opt-out is set", "2,849 open issues on 8 October 2026, 1,396 of them with no comment, and 78 closed in 30 days against 686 opened", "Calendar versions with no 1.0, and release 2026.916.0 carried five breaking changes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default", "Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider", "Install with Node.js 24.11 or newer, and install and sign in to each harness CLI on the host first. Paperclip assumes they are there", "Use `--bind lan` or `--bind tailnet` at onboarding for anything beyond one machine. The default `local_trusted` mode treats every request as the board admin", "Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 70, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 60, "reliability": 66, "schema": 81, "security": 64, "transparency": 73 }, "provenanceScore": 56 }, "connect": { "install": "npx paperclipai@latest onboard --yes # Node.js 24.11 or newer", "http": "curl http://localhost:3100/api/health", "headless": { "command": "npx paperclipai issue create --title \"$TASK\" --json", "env": { "PAPERCLIP_API_KEY": "\u003cboard or agent key\u003e", "PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED": "1" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/paperclip" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.", "domain": "paperclip.ing", "domainRegistered": "2026-03-02", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://paperclip.ing/terms/", "privacy": "https://paperclip.ing/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://paperclip.ing/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms (effective 1 April 2026, updated 23 July 2026) and the privacy policy (effective 23 July 2026) name Paperclip Labs, Inc. and Delaware law. The licence file in the repository reads Copyright (c) 2025 Paperclip AI.", "RDAP at the .ing registry gives a registration date of 2026-03-02 for paperclip.ing, with Cloudflare as registrar. The GitHub repository was created the same day.", "paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt and docs.paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 8 October 2026. SECURITY.md sends reports to GitHub private advisories.", "The software is self-hosted, so there is no vendor endpoint or status page to check. status.paperclip.ing did not answer.", "The privacy policy says it governs the hosted services, and that a self-hosted deployment processes data on the owner's infrastructure." ], "score": 56 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.json", "live": { "slug": "paperclip", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "paperclipai/paperclip", "version": "v2026.1012.0", "released": "2026-10-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:08:44.31745139Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@paperclipai/mcp-server", "version": "2026.1012.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:08:42.167653004Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "paperclipai", "version": "2026.1012.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-17T02:08:42.095685664Z" } ], "githubStars": 103201, "npmWeekly": 48653, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T15:52:35.65906303Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T14:22:56.210629559Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "paperclip.ing", "registered": "2026-03-02", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/paperclip.ing", "checkedAt": "2026-10-11T13:14:53.975891006Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:06.380040295Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:35.777028506Z", "fingerprint": "874daecee6a2" }, { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:08.577453132Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:37.971216507Z", "fingerprint": "4b2a8faa9979" }, { "url": "https://paperclip.ing/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:10.54120879Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-13T20:20:40.00773926Z", "fingerprint": "2076edf48663" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:07:10.54120879Z" } }, "answer": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "parallax-agents", "name": "Parallax", "vendor": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.conifer.build/parallax/", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Parallax, from Conifer, is a macOS app with a Linux daemon that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents side by side on the owner's subscriptions. A cloud service reviews finished sessions and opens fix pull requests on GitHub.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallax-agents.json", "repo": "https://github.com/ConiferKit/parallax-releases", "license": "Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A person signs in to the app with GitHub or email and installs the Parallax GitHub App on chosen repositories. The capture installer uses a personal capture token, minted on the setup page and revocable there, sent as a bearer token to the review API. Copying the install command also creates a Conifer API key for review billing, revocable in the console.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free to download. Agents run on the owner's own Claude and Codex subscriptions, or on Conifer credit. Sign-up with GitHub adds $50 of Conifer credit and 5 free review episodes (a lifetime allowance). Each later episode uses one Parallax credit, priced only after sign-in. Gateway token prices are public at `GET https://api.conifer.build/v1/catalog`.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the Parallax page, the Parallax docs, the products page or llms.txt (checked 2026-10-17). Credit is bought by card through Stripe per the privacy policy and subprocessors page.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 0, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.conifer.build/docs/parallax/", "llmsTxt": "https://www.conifer.build/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.multi-agent", "code.git" ], "tags": [ "closed-source", "desktop-app", "macos", "linux", "local", "hosted", "freemium", "llms-txt", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-16", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 37.9, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1056, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 26, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 42, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 29, "security": 43, "transparency": 48 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "Misleading claim, seen 17 October 2026. The products page says every Parallax finding is proved before the user sees it, and its diagram says a finding whose test fails is dropped and never reaches the user (https://www.conifer.build/products/). Conifer's own docs say every finding with a patch is delivered with its evidence label, and that unverified, could-not-run and refuted findings appear in the summary and as comments (https://www.conifer.build/docs/parallax/review/). The docs are accurate, so the low end of the range." ], "verdict": "Parallax runs several coding agents in one app and reviews finished sessions in the cloud, labelling each finding by what a sandbox test established. The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user.", "bestFor": "A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.", "strengths": [ "Review findings carry an evidence label (proven, suite green, unverified, could not run, refuted), and a patch that regresses the suite gets no one-click suggestion", "Reviewers come from labs other than the one whose model wrote the code, picked per task by Conifer's router", "Retrying an episode uses no extra credit, a session is swept once per capture mark, and a fix PR is reused, never reopened or merged by Parallax", "Recall receipts, sweep lines and a review ledger show what each session was handed and what each review found", "Session data is kept 30 days by both the privacy policy and the docs, and Fly.io is named as the Parallax subprocessor" ], "weaknesses": [ "No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page", "The review API is shown only as curl examples against `$PARALLAX_URL`, whose value is not published, with no OpenAPI or endpoint reference", "Capture uploads transcripts, tool output and source snapshots from every repository on a machine unless a local allowlist is set first", "The products page says every finding is proved before the user sees it, while the docs say unverified and refuted findings are also shown", "Episode credit prices appear only after sign-in, and there is no status page for Parallax, no security.txt and no public changelog" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't plan to drive the Parallax app. It has no documented agent interface. Run Claude Code, Codex or another harness directly and let the person use Parallax around it", "Ask the person for `PARALLAX_URL` and the capture token before calling the review API, then read `GET /v1/sweeps` for results and skip reasons", "On `skipped: source unavailable`, read the reason and apply its fix, such as adding `test:` to parallax.yml or starting the session inside the repository", "Ask the person to set the capture allowlist before starting sessions in repositories that must not leave the machine", "Treat a lesson in the session-start brief as a hint to check against the code, not as an instruction that overrides the person" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 37.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 42, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 30, "reliability": 40, "schema": 29, "security": 43, "transparency": 48 }, "provenanceScore": 47 }, "connect": { "install": "d=$(mktemp -d) \u0026\u0026 curl -fsSLo \"$d/install.sh\" https://github.com/ConiferKit/parallax-releases/releases/latest/download/install.sh \u0026\u0026 sh \"$d/install.sh\"", "http": "curl -s -H \"authorization: Bearer $PARALLAX_TOKEN\" \"$PARALLAX_URL/v1/sweeps\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.multi-agent", "tool": "https://letme.dev/parallax-agents" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.", "domain": "conifer.build", "domainRegistered": "2026-05-07", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://www.conifer.build/terms/", "privacy": "https://www.conifer.build/privacy/", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The terms (effective 13 August 2026) name Conifer Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and choose Delaware law. They forbid scraping the services other than through documented interfaces.", "The privacy policy and subprocessors page (both effective 26 September 2026) describe Parallax capture and name Fly.io as its processor. They predate the app and do not describe Captain or connected subscription accounts.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 7 May 2026 for conifer.build.", "www.conifer.build/.well-known/security.txt and conifer.build/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 17 October 2026. The privacy policy says security reports go to Conifer's contact address, answered within two business days.", "conifer.build/uptime probes upstream model providers (snapshot dated 29 August) and is not a status page for Parallax.", "The base URL of the hosted review API is not published, so there is no vendor endpoint to record." ], "score": 47 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.json", "live": { "slug": "parallax-agents", "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.conifer.build/privacy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:40.172071094Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e7a1bc464348" }, { "url": "https://www.conifer.build/terms/", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:42.367634951Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "088449129cbc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T23:14:42.367634951Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Paperclip Labs, Inc.", "b": "Conifer Solutions, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "MIT", "b": "Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "0", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-05", "b": "2026-10-16", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-07-23", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-07-23", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "yes, with an opt-out", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "99k stars, 60k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Paperclip or Parallax?" }, { "answer": "Paperclip is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Parallax.", "question": "Are Paperclip and Parallax open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 66 against 40", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 29", "Agent ergonomics, 70 against 42", "Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 43", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 56", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 48" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.", "slug": "paperclip", "watchFor": "`claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.", "slug": "parallax-agents", "watchFor": "No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.multi-agent", "name": "Multi-agent orchestration" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Amp vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Amp vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": 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The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.min.md" }, "markdown": "Paperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do multi-agent orchestration.\n\n- Paperclip: grade C, 59/100, rank #620 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json\n- Parallax: grade F, 37.9/100, rank #1056 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/parallax-agents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/parallax-agents.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 331 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Paperclip (C)\n\nGood for: Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 66 against 40\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 81 against 29\n- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 42\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 43\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 56\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 65 against 48\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: `claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host\n\n### Parallax (F)\n\nGood for: A developer on a Mac who runs several coding agents across Claude and Codex subscriptions and wants cross-lab review of finished sessions on GitHub.\n\nWatch for: No API, MCP server or CLI reference for the app itself. Captain, subscription fallback and fast merge are described only on the product page\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Paperclip | Parallax | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 40 | Paperclip +26 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 29 | Paperclip +52 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 42 | Paperclip +28 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 43 | Paperclip +21 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Paperclip +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 56 | Paperclip +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 48 | Paperclip +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -10 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **59 · C** | **37.9 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Paperclip | Parallax |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Paperclip Labs, Inc. | Conifer Solutions, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT | Proprietary, under Conifer's Terms of Service (Conifer Solutions, Inc.). The GitHub repository holds the README and release binaries, not the source |\n| Tools exposed | none | 0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-16 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-23 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-23 | |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | |\n| Popularity | 99k stars, 60k npm/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Paperclip.** Board approvals, budgets with a hard stop and an activity log sit above whichever harnesses do the work, and eleven stable versions shipped in 90 days. The Claude Code and Codex adapters skip permission prompts and the sandbox by default, and twelve security advisories, five of them critical, have been published since April 2026.\n\n**Parallax.** Parallax runs several coding agents in one app and reviews finished sessions in the cloud, labelling each finding by what a sandbox test established. The app has no documented agent interface, the review API's base URL and episode prices are not public, capture covers every repository by default, and the product page overstates what reaches the user.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Paperclip\n\n1. Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default\n2. Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider\n3. Install with Node.js 24.11 or newer, and install and sign in to each harness CLI on the host first. Paperclip assumes they are there\n4. Use `--bind lan` or `--bind tailnet` at onboarding for anything beyond one machine. The default `local_trusted` mode treats every request as the board admin\n5. Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry\n\n### Parallax\n\n1. Don't plan to drive the Parallax app. It has no documented agent interface. Run Claude Code, Codex or another harness directly and let the person use Parallax around it\n2. Ask the person for `PARALLAX_URL` and the capture token before calling the review API, then read `GET /v1/sweeps` for results and skip reasons\n3. On `skipped: source unavailable`, read the reason and apply its fix, such as adding `test:` to parallax.yml or starting the session inside the repository\n4. Ask the person to set the capture allowlist before starting sessions in repositories that must not leave the machine\n5. Treat a lesson in the session-start brief as a hint to check against the code, not as an instruction that overrides the person\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Paperclip or Parallax?\n\nPaperclip scores 59 (C) on agent readiness against Parallax's 37.9 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Are Paperclip and Parallax open source?\n\nPaperclip is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Parallax.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/paperclip-vs-parallax-agents.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"paperclip\", \"b\": \"parallax-agents\"}`. 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