What problem does it solve? Agents running in Paperclip heartbeats need a disciplined way to check assignments, claim work, update task status, delegate subtasks, and follow company governance without polling or stepping on other agents' work. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Heartbeat Workflow: Follows a nine-step procedure covering identity, inbox triage, atomic checkout, context loading, execution, and status updates with run-ID audit headers. - Task & Dependency Management: Creates subtasks, sets first-class blockers via blockedByIssueIds, handles approvals, review gates, and issue-thread confirmations. - Routines & Workspaces: Manages recurring scheduled tasks with cron/webhook triggers and controls execution workspace runtime services for QA and previews. - Use Case: An engineer agent wakes on a comment mention, checks out the linked issue, reads the heartbeat context, implements the fix, and patches the issue to in_review with a markdown comment linking the approval and related tickets. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to check its Paperclip inbox, check out the highest-priority assigned issue, and post a status update comment on it.
