Agent Pixels - A visual plugin for PaperclipAI
03/05/2026
Agent Pixels is based off the VSCode extension Pixel-Agents. A plugin for PaperclipAI.
Over the last few days I've been working on a potential viral project.
I had the idea to make a plugin based off Pixel Agents the VS Code extension. But port it to Paperclip AI. Paperclip is an amazing automation tool for running agents autonomously in a company structure complete with org charts and individual characteristics. Unfortunately as Pixel-Agents is tied to Claude in VS Code I never took the opportunity to play with it.
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https://github.com/gcampton/Agent-Pixels
So the actual coding side of things was relatively quick. I'm talking 1 hour max. But the hard part was Pixel-Agents only comes with 6 characters. I asked Codex to create a bunch of new characters for me, it took those 6 and slightly changed skin tone and outline colors to make 40 agents.
I asked for it to do it again, but unfortunately didn't change much. So I got to work in Gimp creating layers and doing proper recolors, bright green, purple pink, blue hair etc. Changing pants, and tops colors. and got to asset 80. Which I realised meant I had 81 total characters due to char_0.png. Then I also thought about Dotta's avatar on X formerly known as Twitter, Dotta is the creator of Paperclip and Forgotten Runes games, books, movies, etc.
Dotta always appears as his digital avatar in interviews which is always fun. So i thought he definitely needs to be included and he needs to be my CEO. So I drew him by hand. I spent a total of 8-10 hours making 82 characters in total. But then I realised I needed more office assets also.
Agent Pixels Concept Art
After a couple more hours making new rooms and furniture Agent Pixels was ready !
FEAR SET IN...
I quickly built a MantleKit Website, stripped the whole thing on MantleKit content (Which is super fucking annoying as a user BTW and I must fix that pronto), Wired up Supabase, Brevo, Stripe, Google, Github, Vercel and launched the website. 100% Project health in under 1 hour.
I don't know why I was so scared about this, I knew I wanted it to be public and I knew I wanted it to popular and the reason for that is I wanted to sell packages for PaperclipAI as companies.
The whole reason for this was a lead magnet, I mean it's also hella fun, but my motivation is broke inspired fun.
So the whole of today I was stressing out that Dotta had not replied to my PM in Discord and also a few people I had asked to do videos weren't that interested, or completely ignored my replies.
So I thought...Fuck it and Put in on Product Hunt, took it out of private mode on Github, started posting it everywhere. All because I was worried someone might have the same idea. There's already people porting parts of Pixel Agents to OpenCLaw and the like, so I figured it was best I jump in ASAP. Plus teh dollar signs going off in my head were drowning my thoughts...
Now here's the stupid part. I don't have a product to sell. I have the idea, I have the pricing page with products on it. But I haven't created the Company Packs for Paperclip to sell yet. I'm getting 100's of likes on my X post, Product Hunt is going live in a few hours... and I'm missing the thing to sell.
Instead I'm sitting here like a dummy writing a blog post at 3am, why ?
Because... those companies are boring. That's the boring work, in my head. I just want to make cool things, not things that solve peoples problems.
f*@*k people.
The world should just give me money for being alive and let me create stuff. At least I can dream...
HAH, well it's not that bad I'm not sure why I'm procrastinating on making the products, I guess I thought there's no way this would go viral quick, even though the whole point of making Agent Pixels was to go viral and get sales.
I'll see what it's like in 7 hours after I wake up, but for now I must sleep. Good Night peoples.