Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents
Getting AI Coding Agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases
HumanLayer is an API that enables AI applications to contact humans for help, feedback, and approvals. One customer uses HumanLayer to ship DevOps agents that manage complex and risky workflows like production deployments and database migrations. We’re building HumanLayer because we know that the future of AI Applications is not gonna be humans sitting at a chat interface, the future is “outer loop” or “headless” agents, and our partners are building AI apps that invert the typical interaction paradigm. Autonomous agents are calling humans, not the other way around. AI Agents are poised to disrupt the $4.6tn global labor market, but in order to make agents reliable today, and train them to be fully autonomous tomorrow, solutions like HumanLayer are an inevitable part of the AI Agent stack.
CodeLayer is an OSS IDE for managing coding agents, built with proven workflows to solve hard problems in complex codebases.
The company shifted from an API that allows all types of AI agents to reach out to humans (HumanLayer) to building an open-source IDE for managing coding agents (CodeLayer), focusing specifically on coding workflows. This is a meaningful change in product scope and focus, from general AI/human interaction middleware to a narrowly focused developer tool targeting coding agents.