# paperclipai/paperclip — health index 72/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository paperclipai/paperclip by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 72 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/paperclipai/paperclip
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/paperclipai/paperclip/report
- Badge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/inspect-software/badges/main/v1/p/paperclipai/paperclip.svg
- Inspected: 2026-07-15
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.11.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 86/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 89/100 | Excellent |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 50/100 | Moderate |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 68/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 73/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 70/100 | Good |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work |
| Homepage | https://paperclip.ing |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | MIT |
| Stars | 73,807 |
| Forks | 13,735 |
| Created | 2026-03-02 |
| Last push | 2026-07-15 |
| Latest release | v2026.707.0 |
| Commits (last year) | 3,090 |
| Bus factor | 1 |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | paperclipai | 2026.707.0 | 100,463 |
| npm | @paperclipai/server | 2026.707.0 | 100,857 |
| npm | @paperclipai/ui | 2026.707.0 | 41,149 |

## Vitality — 86/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 15.2 / 36 | 22/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 3090 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 17 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 8 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~7.7 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 89/100 (Excellent)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 99/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | met | 60 / 60 | 73,807 stars |
| Forks | met | 25 / 25 | 13,735 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 14.3 / 15 | 373 watchers |

### Community health — 77/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (MIT) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | not met | 0 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 90/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 71.8 / 80 | 242,469 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 50/100 (Moderate)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 32/100 (At risk)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 9 / 54 | 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 5.9 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 74% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 100 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 21/100 (Critical)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 7.5 / 46.8 | 16% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 10.5 / 38.2 | 1143/4174 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | excluded | 0 / 15 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Ownership & stewardship — 62/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 23.2 / 25 | 1,698 followers of paperclipai |
| Track record | partial | 8.3 / 25 | 10 public repos, account ~0 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 3 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | met | 35 / 35 | latest publish 8 days ago |
| Version history | met | 20 / 20 | 735 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 68/100 (Moderate)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 10 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | not met | 0 / 16 | — |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | excluded | 0 / 20 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Documentation — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | met | 15 / 15 | https://paperclip.ing |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | not met | 0 / 10 | — |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 73/100 (Good)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 73/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Dependency lockfiles. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security policy (SECURITY.md) | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Dependabot config | met | 25 / 25 | — |
| Dependency lockfiles | excluded | 0 / 25 | published library — lockfiles are an application concern, not expected |
| CodeQL workflow | not met | 0 / 20 | — |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 70/100 (Good)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 75/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | met | 45 / 45 | AGENTS.md, docs/api/agents.md, packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/agents/wiki-maintainer/AGENTS.md, packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/fixtures/basic-root/AGENTS.md, packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/templates/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/company-defaults/core-exec-team/agents/ceo/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/company-defaults/core-exec-team/agents/cto/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/company-defaults/core-exec-team/agents/qa/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/product/product-design/agents/ux-designer/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/software-development/product-engineering/agents/cto/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/software-development/product-engineering/agents/qa/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/bundled/software-development/product-engineering/agents/senior-coder/AGENTS.md, packages/teams-catalog/catalog/optional/content/content-machine/agents/content-lead/AGENTS.md, server/src/built-ins/agents/reflection-coach/AGENTS.md, server/src/onboarding-assets/ceo/AGENTS.md, server/src/onboarding-assets/default/AGENTS.md |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 60/100 (Moderate)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | not met | 0 / 11 | — |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | cli/tsconfig.json, packages/adapter-utils/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/claude-local/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/codex-local/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/cursor-cloud/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/cursor-local/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/gemini-local/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/grok-local/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/hermes-gateway/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/hermes/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/openclaw-gateway/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/opencode-local/tsconfig.json, packages/adapters/pi-local/tsconfig.json, packages/db/tsconfig.json, packages/google-sheets-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/kv-demo-mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/mcp-server/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/create-paperclip-plugin/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/examples/plugin-authoring-smoke-example/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/examples/plugin-file-browser-example/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/examples/plugin-hello-world-example/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/examples/plugin-kitchen-sink-example/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/examples/plugin-orchestration-smoke-example/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/paperclip-plugin-fake-sandbox/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/plugin-llm-wiki/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/plugin-workspace-diff/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/cloudflare/bridge-template/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/cloudflare/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/daytona/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/e2b/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/exe-dev/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/kubernetes/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/modal/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sandbox-providers/novita/tsconfig.json, packages/plugins/sdk/tsconfig.json, packages/shared/tsconfig.json, packages/skills-catalog/tsconfig.json, packages/teams-catalog/tsconfig.json, server/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json, ui/tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | Dockerfile, lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | partial | 5 / 8 | dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | excluded | 0 / 10 | OpenSSF Scorecard unavailable |

### Code legibility for models — 98/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 53.2 / 55 | 92/2875 source files over 60KB |

### Machine-readable interfaces — 60/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto) | not met | 0 / 40 | — |
| MCP server | met | 20 / 20 | — |
| Runnable examples | met | 40 / 40 | examples |

## Collection warnings

- OpenSSF Scorecard timed out after 240s; skipping Scorecard checks

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