HumanLayer

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The multiplayer control plane for your software factory

F24·Fall 2024·B2B·San Francisco, CA, USA·Team of 2·Founded 2023

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About

HumanLayer is a multiplayer coding agent IDE+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 you team to collaborate and ship. It's built in composable pieces to meet software factory builders where they already are - you can BYO compute, dev environment setup, and harness, or use our full integrated stack.

Founders

Dexter Horthy· Founder
Coined the term Context Engineering in April 2025, ranting about coding agents ever since. Started coding in high school at NASA JPL. Spent 7 years as Engineer, SE, PM, Exec at Replicated, a series C dev tools startup. I worked on container orchestrators, helped teams like Hashicorp, DataStax, and H2O.ai deliver and ship their on-prem k8s products.
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Product launches · 1 launch

HumanLayer - Human-in-the-loop for AI Agents and beyond ↗▲ 47Oct 29, 2024
Approval queues, escalations, and human oversight for every automated process.

Change history · 6 recorded

August 27, 2026
- Pitch updated07:00 PM
- Description rewritten07:00 PM
June 20, 2026
- Team reduced from 3 to 207:00 PM
- Website updated07:00 PM
- Tags updated07:00 PM
June 2, 2026
- Tags updated07:00 PM