Overview

Agent Companies lets you describe a company, its teams, agents, projects, tasks, and reusable skills as markdown packages that can live in a local folder or GitHub repository.

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Why Agent Companies?

Agents can execute tasks well, but company-scale work also needs structure, delegation, governance, and shared operating context. Agent Companies extends Agent Skills with a portable way to describe who exists, how work flows, and which capabilities should activate across an entire agent-driven organization. For package authors: Define company operating structure once and reuse it across compatible runtimes. For compatible runtimes: Load organization context, task definitions, and reusable skills in a portable format. For teams and enterprises: Keep operating logic in version-controlled markdown that can be reviewed, diffed, and shared.

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What can Agent Companies enable?

• Reusable company operating systems: Package company structure, team topology, and reusable role behavior in one portable layout.
• Faster onboarding: Point a runtime at a repo or folder and discover company manifests, skills, and starter work without manual setup.
• Repeatable governance: Keep approvals, policies, and task scaffolding in auditable files rather than hidden prompt state.
• Organizational evals: Test whether a company structure, workflow, or skill set actually produces the behaviors you want.
• Interoperability: Reuse SKILL.md and company manifests across any implementation that adopts the extension protocol.

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Adoption

Agent Companies is an open extension protocol. Paperclip currently implements the company package model and import/export plan, but the base format is designed for any agent-company runtime that wants markdown-first, GitHub-native portability.

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Open development

The protocol grows out of the Agent Skills ecosystem and the current Paperclip company import/export work. SKILL.md remains owned by the Agent Skills specification. Agent Companies adds company, team, agent, project, and task composition around that existing primitive.

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