Projects

A project is the container Paperclip uses to group related work. If goals answer "why are we doing this?" and issues answer "what exactly needs doing?", projects sit in between: they bind a body of work to a concrete place — a repository, a working directory, a budget envelope, a set of execution workspaces — where agents can actually pick up tasks and make progress.

Every issue in Paperclip lives under a project. Every execution workspace is scoped to a project. Budgets can be pinned to a project. When you tell an agent "work on the marketing site", you are really telling it "work on issues in the Marketing Site project, using the code and configuration the project points at". Projects are how the abstract strategy the CEO writes becomes something concrete an agent can check out and run.

This guide walks through the project list, then the five tabs you see when you open a project: Overview, Issues, Workspaces, Configuration, and Budget.

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Project List

The Projects page lists every active (non-archived) project in the currently selected company, sorted by creation order, with an Add Project button in the top right.

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Row anatomy

Each row is a single project entry. Reading left to right you see: