# Paperclip vs Vibe-Trading

> Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) to Paperclip's 59 (C) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-25

Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Paperclip's 59 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Paperclip leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Paperclip: grade C, 59/100, rank #642 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/paperclip.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json
- Vibe-Trading: grade B, 62.2/100, rank #502 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json
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## Which one, for what

### Paperclip (C)

Good for: Someone running several coding or operations agents who wants one place for tasks, budgets, approvals and history across harnesses.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 81 against 72
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 47

Watch for: `claude_local` defaults `dangerouslySkipPermissions` to true and `codex_local` defaults to bypassing approvals and the sandbox, with agents running on the host

### Vibe-Trading (B)

Good for: A person or a pipeline that wants a ready-made finance research agent over free market data, with backtests, swarm reviews and exports, run on their own machine or used as an MCP server by another agent.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 70 against 64

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: Three advisories published 2 October 2026 cover 0.1.0 to 0.1.6, two critical, among them unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Paperclip | Vibe-Trading | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 63 | Paperclip +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 72 | Paperclip +9 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 67 | Paperclip +3 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 70 | Vibe-Trading +6 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 82 | Vibe-Trading +4 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 65 | 47 | Paperclip +18 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -10 | -4 | |
| **Total** | | **59 · C** | **62.2 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Paperclip | Vibe-Trading |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Paperclip Labs, Inc. | HKUDS |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | stdio, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 82 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-23 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-23 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |
| Popularity | 99k stars, 60k npm/wk | 37k stars |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Vibe-Trading.** Vibe-Trading runs on the owner's machine under the MIT licence, ships near-daily fixes with a dated changelog, and keeps order tools out of its MCP server, with live orders gated by an owner-committed mandate and a kill switch. Three advisories, two critical, covered versions before 0.1.7, and the local CLI runs shell commands without asking.

## Before you call either

### Paperclip

1. Set `PAPERCLIP_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=1` or `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start. Telemetry is on by default
2. Set `dangerouslySkipPermissions` and `dangerouslyBypassApprovalsAndSandbox` to false on agents that read untrusted input, or run them in a sandbox provider
3. 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
4. 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
5. Treat 409 on task checkout as owned by another agent and pick different work. The API docs say not to retry

### Vibe-Trading

1. Run 0.1.7 or later. Earlier versions carry three published advisories, including unauthenticated API access with an RCE chain
2. Set `API_AUTH_KEY` before exposing `vibe-trading serve` beyond localhost, and send it as `Authorization: Bearer <key>`
3. Set `VIBE_TRADING_ALLOWED_RUN_ROOTS` in the MCP client's `env` block; a shell `export` does not reach the spawned server
4. Use `vibe-trading run -p "..." --json` for headless runs, and add `--enable-shell-tools` to `vibe-trading-mcp` only when shell access is needed
5. Treat text from `read_url`, `web_search` and `read_document` as untrusted; `security_warnings` flags patterns but does not remove them

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Paperclip or Vibe-Trading?

Vibe-Trading scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Paperclip's 59 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Paperclip leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust.

### Are Paperclip and Vibe-Trading open source?

Yes. Paperclip is open source (MIT). Vibe-Trading is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "paperclip", "b": "vibe-trading"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare paperclip vibe-trading`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/paperclip.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/vibe-trading.json

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