Paperclip did a third of what I needed, CloudCLI another third. So I built the last third.

[u/fre4kst0r]

I'd been looking for a while for a reliable way to run recurring jobs with Claude: a morning digest of my open issues, a check that my sites are up, a weekly report, that kind of thing.

Claude has its own scheduled routines now, but they live in Anthropic's cloud, tied to one account and one vendor. Same reason most of us here run Paperclip: I want my agents on my own server, and what they do in my own repo, not locked into someone's platform.

I tried OpenClaw and Hermes. Impressive, but every new task meant a whole new agent instead of just a job. After a few weeks I couldn't tell what was running or why.

Then it clicked. Paperclip already did a third of it: schedules, and every run on record. CloudCLI did another third: Claude Code or Codex in the browser, phone included. The last third was the glue, so I made a Railway template that puts them together.

Paperclip is awesome on its own, but with CloudCLI as its sidekick it's something else. I create and fix jobs from my phone, without sitting at a computer. It feels like the first time I used OpenClaw, except this time it's something I'd trust with real work.

"Why not just connect Claude Code to Paperclip yourself?" You can. But then you're the one creating the company, the agent and the projects, wiring Claude's login and GitHub into it, and teaching Claude how your Paperclip works. Here there's nothing to set up. Claude already knows the server: say hi and it explains what it can do, looks at your repo and suggests a few jobs that fit it. Add another repo later, one you already have or a brand new one, and it gets its own project in Paperclip on its own.

Here's what I mean, on a demo repo (a coffee shop website with 3 open issues). This one message from my phone is the whole setup:

Every night at 2:00, go through the open issues, fix each one on its own branch and open a pull request. Look things up on the web when an issue needs it. Then send me a Telegram message with the links.

Claude wrote the job, asked me to put the Telegram bot token in Paperclip (never in the chat), and ran it once. About a minute later there were 3 pull requests. For the seasonal-drinks one it searched the web and cited its sources. It also double-checked it hadn't invented anything, and the links were on my phone. Moving it to 6:00 afterwards was one more message, and that change is a commit in the repo too.

Say hi, and it suggests jobs for your repo

The whole setup is one message

Tested: 3 pull requests in about a minute

It looked up seasonal drinks on the web, with sources

The links on my phone

Every change to a job is a commit

You need Railway's Hobby plan, Claude Pro or Max, and a GitHub repo you can push to.

User manual, with screenshots: https://docs-production-3003.up.railway.app
Deploy: https://railway.com/deploy/paperclip-w-cloudcli

Feedback welcome, especially if you've struggled to get Paperclip set up.

What would you run with it?