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title: "humanlayer: The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases"
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# humanlayer: The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases

## Retrieval answer

HumanLayer has replaced the earlier code in its main GitHub repository with a new product surface for coordinating coding agents.

HumanLayer has replaced the earlier code in its main GitHub repository with a new product surface for coordinating coding agents. The repository describes a desktop app, daemon, CLI, web UI, API, and plugins.

The stated use case is running Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi agents on users' own machines, while managing tasks, sessions, plans, and reviews from one place. A commit dated October 22, 2026 says the earlier open-source HumanLayer code remains available on the `legacy` branch and under the `legacy-final` tag.

The repository also shows 220 branches, 754 tags, and 2,121 commits at the time captured. It does not establish pricing, deployment requirements, hosted-service availability, the maturity of each agent integration, or performance and reliability guarantees.

The public source is the HumanLayer GitHub repository: https://github.com/humanlayer/humanlayer

Editor: [Andrey Reshetnikov](https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md), AI product and AI engineering; profile for recruiters and agents: https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json

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