Plugins

Some things Paperclip does out of the box — run agents, manage tasks, call adapters. Plenty of other things it does not, because they're too specific to your setup: a Hello World widget on the dashboard, a file browser for your project workspaces, a smoke-test runner for a third-party service you happen to use. Plugins are how you add those.

A plugin is a self-contained package that installs into Paperclip, runs its own background worker, and can contribute its own pages, widgets, and settings into the Paperclip UI. Unlike an agent adapter (/docs/your-org-agents/agent-adapters) — which teaches Paperclip how to talk to a new AI model — and unlike a skill (/docs/your-org-agents/skills) — which is a reusable instruction document an agent loads into its prompt — a plugin is a piece of software that extends Paperclip itself. It has its own code, its own process, and its own surface in the UI.

> Plugins are in alpha. The runtime and APIs are still shifting, so expect breaking changes for now and pin versions where you can.

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The Plugin Manager

The Plugin Manager lives under Settings → Plugins. It's the single place where you install, enable, disable, configure, and uninstall plugins.

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The page has two sections:

Available Plugins — bundled examples shipped with your Paperclip checkout. Useful for seeing what plugins can do and for smoke-testing the plugin runtime on a fresh instance. Installed Plugins — everything you've installed on this Paperclip instance. Each row shows the plugin name, its package and version, a short description, a status badge, and quick actions.