RUST · AI AGENT GOVERNANCE

paperclip-rs — Autonomous AI Company Control Plane & Token Budget Governance in Rust

paperclip-rs is a memory-safe Rust control plane for organizing teams of autonomous AI agents with explicit org charts, role permissions, and hard financial budgets. It tracks per-agent token burn rates, enforces human-in-the-loop approval gates, and records immutable audit trails for every tool invocation.

$ cargo install paperclip-rs

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STAGE // ACYCLIC ORG CHART HIERARCHY, KANBAN STATE MACHINE & BUDGET GATE GOVERNANCE: ADMITTED // ALL AGENTS IDLE/RUNNING

DAILY BURN RATE

$12.00 / day

ENFORCER DECISION

OK (NONE)

KANBAN PIPELINE

2 TODO / 2 IN_PROG / 4 DONE

SUPERVISOR ISOLATION

kill_on_drop + Watchdog

TICK LATENCY

0.019 ms (58.7x)

EMPIRICAL PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS // PAPERCLIP-RS VS NODE.JS CONTROL PLANE

Subsystem / Operation	Node.js / TS Control Plane	paperclip-rs (Rust)	Speedup	Peak Memory
Acyclic Org-Chart Validation & Tree Build (1k runs)	142.80 ms	2.15 ms	66.4x	1.4 MB (vs 185 MB)
Budget Policy & Runway Forecasting (10k checks)	96.40 ms	1.40 ms	68.9x	0.9 MB (vs 150 MB)
Kanban Issue Assignment & State Transitions (1k ticks)	384.50 ms	6.80 ms	56.5x	3.2 MB (vs 310 MB)
Axum REST /api/v1/heartbeat/tick Dispatch (1k ticks)	518.20 ms	9.10 ms	56.9x	4.8 MB (vs 420 MB)
End-to-End 25-Agent Company Heartbeat Cycle	1,141.90 ms	19.45 ms	58.7x	4.8 MB (vs 420 MB)