HumanLayer - The multiplayer control plane for your software factory

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The Multiplayer Coding Agent Workspace

HumanLayer is a multiplayer coding agent IDE and cloud that works seamlessly from your workstation to anywhere you want to run background agents.

It brings agent sessions, plan artifacts, and code diffs together in one place for your team to collaborate and ship.

HumanLayer ships composable pieces to meet software factory builders where they already are. Bring your own compute, development environment, and agent harness, or run the HumanLayer stack on your workstation or remote workers.

$brew trust humanlayer/humanlayer

$brew install humanlayer/humanlayer/humanlayer


Multiplayer Coding Agent IDE + Cloud

Bring agent sessions, plan artifacts, and code diffs together so your team can collaborate and ship.


From the team that brought you Context Engineering

Leading experts on getting the most out of AI coding agents.

No Vibes Allowed

Solving hard problems in complex codebases. AI Engineer Code Summit, November 2025.

RPI to QRSPI

What we learned from thousands of engineers using our open-source workflows.

12 Factor Agents

The original "context engineering" repo, April 2025.



Pricing

Simple plans for individuals, teams, and enterprises.

Starter

Free for small teams

Everything in Pro, for small teams:

  • ✓ Up to 3 team members
  • ✓ Up to 200 sessions / month

Get Started

Includes:

  • ✓ BYOK for Claude Code, Codex, and more
  • ✓ Unlimited tasks and sessions
  • ✓Multi-Repo Workspaces & Worktrees
  • ✓Inline Diagrams & Mockups
  • ✓ Real-Time Human+Agent Collaboration on Artifacts
  • ✓Compounding Engineering — Agents get smarter over time
  • ✓ Remote Daemons and other Software Factory building blocks

Get Started

Everything in Pro, plus:

  • ✓ SSO/SAML
  • ✓ Audit Logs
  • ✓ Volume Pricing
  • ✓ Custom Terms
  • ✓On-Prem & Private VPC

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Security

SOC 2 Type II

HumanLayer is SOC 2 Type II compliant. We use Vanta to help monitor our security controls and maintain compliance.

ZDR and DPA agreements available on enterprise tiers.


FAQ

Do I bring my own AI subscription, or pay for tokens?

Bring your own. Plug in your existing Claude, Codex, and other AI subscriptions or API keys (BYOK) — there's no separate HumanLayer per-token bill to reason about.

Which agents and models are supported?

Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Fireworks, with new models/subscription providers added regularly.

Why not just use Notion or Google Docs for design reviews?

You can, but those are part of a fragmented, manual, pre-AI world. In HumanLayer, comments and decisions feed directly back to the agents, so your design docs live in the IDE, directly integrated with the implementation.

I already have my own skills and workflows

Today, HumanLayer supports a variety of RPI and experimental workflows, and we're actively working on ways for you to bring your own skills and workflows into HumanLayer.

Why not just stitch these workflows and tools together myself?

You can — but you'll spend months in the exploration phase trying things and seeing what sticks. HumanLayer is an opinionated system of agents that you can stand up in 10 minutes. We build HumanLayer with HumanLayer, so we know it works, and we've spent hundreds of hours working in the trenches with customers making the prompts and workflows "squishy" - that is, flexible to a broad range of problems and inputs, so there's no holding it wrong.

Is there a free plan?

Yes - the Starter plan is free for teams of three or less.

Is HumanLayer open source?

Not yet, but we'll be open-sourcing some of the building blocks in the coming weeks and months. Our Research, Plan, Implement (RPI) framework is already open source.


Ship Fast Without Sacrificing Quality

Let's make this the year of no more slop.

$brew trust humanlayer/humanlayer

$brew install humanlayer/humanlayer/humanlayer