Headcount Zero: How to Build an AI-Run Company with Paperclip
Practical guide to AI agents, but it's content not a tool like the Compendium.

Nails the addictive feedback loop of the original: make clips, buy wire and processors, unlock strategic modeling and investment engines, with a readable system console and persistent autosave. The dark, compact UI puts Market, Manufacturing and Compute controls front-and-center, but it's largely a faithful remake rather than a reinvention — enjoyable to play, not groundbreaking.
Idle/incremental game players, fans of Universal Paperclips, casual browser gamers
Practical guide to AI agents, but it's content not a tool like the Compendium.
Frozen values and tracked reads prevent mutable state from breaking memoization.
Six-agent marketing orchestration built on Paperclip, but agentic frameworks already exist.
Markdown files on disk with AI agents, no database lock-in like Obsidian.
Compiles structured DSL to AGENTS.md that existing coding agents already consume.
It wires Claude Code hooks and a passive tailer for Codex session files into a tiny floating pet window that reports agent states (Thinking, Working, Waiting, Done, Error) and live context/token counts. The local status.json approach keeps data on your machine and the sticker packs give it actual charm, but it's a narrowly useful desktop companion — multi-session or dashboard support would make it materially more powerful.