Is Paperclip Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of paperclip.ing plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-05-13

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site
Open paperclip.ing→

The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.

Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports
DownDetector: Paperclip→

User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

Step 3 -- Live social
Search X for “Paperclipdown” →

Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

Step 4 -- Official status page
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Known issues we've tracked

PRODUCT (2026-05-13, TODAY): Paperclip v2026.513.0 shipped. Highlights from the GitHub release notes: (a) Source-scoped recovery actions -- stalled or missing-disposition recovery now creates first-class recovery actions on the source issue itself (rather than discarding state into a side queue), (b) Blocked Inbox attention view -- a new Blocked Inbox tab surfaces blocked work alongside active assignments so an agent can triage without the org chart, (c) Local plugin development workflow -- `paperclipai plugin init` scaffolding now ships with a CLI-first authoring loop (faster dev cycle for community plugins). Maintainer continues weekly cadence -- v2026.512.0 had been the prior release with planning mode + claude-sonnet-4-6/4-5 routing additions.
2026-05-13•GitHub releases (github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/releases/tag/v2026.513.0)
Embedded Postgres occasionally corrupts on unclean shutdown, recommended to move to external Postgres before production use
2026-04•GitHub Issues
Budget enforcement has a race condition on high-concurrency task checkout, can allow small overshoots on the first run after a restart
2026-04•GitHub Issues / Paperclip docs

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Paperclip is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

A

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0

8.4

Microsoft's MIT-licensed open-source agent orchestration framework -- GA on 2026-04-03. Merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK. Python and .NET. Native MCP and A2A protocol support. Connectors for Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, Gemini, Ollama

A

LangGraph

8.3

LangChain's graph-based framework for building stateful, controllable multi-agent and human-in-the-loop AI workflows

A

CrewAI

8.0

Python framework for building multi-agent systems with role-based agents, tasks, and sequential or hierarchical processes

A

Augment Code Intent

8.0

Spec-driven multi-agent orchestration for code -- coordinator + implementor agents in isolated git worktrees + verifier. Works with Augment's Auggie, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. Public beta 2026-02-10

B

Microsoft Agent 365

7.5

Microsoft's enterprise governance + observability platform for AI agents -- went GA 2026-05-01. Discovers + inventories + secures local agents (OpenClaw / GitHub Copilot CLI / Claude Code) AND cloud agents across AWS Bedrock + Google Cloud + Azure. $15/user/month or bundled in Microsoft 365 E7

About Paperclip

Tier A (8.6/10). Open-source orchestration layer that turns your AI agents into a company -- org charts, budgets, governance, and heartbeats for the whole team

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