Paperclip Governance Playbook — Run AI Companies From Your Phone

You set up Paperclip. You have AI companies with CEOs and employees. But you're not sitting at the dashboard — you're on your phone, in meetings, living your life.

This skill turns your OpenClaw agent into a board operator that manages your Paperclip companies with real governance.

What's inside: • Board Operator Proxy — your agent writes decisions to Paperclip on your behalf with clear audit trails • CEO Prompt Template — governance boundaries that actually work (autonomous vs approval vs escalate) • Model Governance — CEOs on premium models, employees on the cheapest that works, with approval flows for upgrades • 1:1 Management Pattern — run real management sessions through Paperclip, not just dashboard checks • Escalation Chain — employees to CEO to your agent to you, with nothing falling through cracks • Working ON vs IN — clear rules for what goes through Paperclip vs what your agent handles directly

Every pattern includes: exact CLI commands, API calls, cron configurations, and prompt templates you can copy-paste.

The gotchas section alone is worth the price — LiveSessionModelSwitchError, empty queue heartbeats, @-mention budget, cron delivery noise, and the board vs agent comment trap. We hit every one of these so you don't have to.

Built from running two real Paperclip companies with 10+ agents. Not a tutorial — an operating manual.