HumanLayer
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Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
1
open roles
Backers
1
Y Combinator
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 12
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: /show-me: agent skill for compact visual representations
Oct 2024
Went through Y Combinator
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview
HumanLayer is an AI-powered IDE, collaboration platform, and developer infrastructure designed to build human-in-the-loop workflows into software engineering and AI agent development. The platform acts as a system of agents and building blocks that coordinates software development across six distinct phases - from initial research and design reviews to implementation - allowing developer teams and AI agents to collaborate in real time on codebases without sacrificing architecture quality.
News
show-me: a coding agent skill for compact visual representations
A small skill that makes coding agents explain software with diagrams, trees, diffs, and focused visual artifacts.
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advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/benchmarking-sol-fable-kimi-on-slop-code-bench.md at main humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.
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advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md at main humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.
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advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/wsff.md at main humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents
Contribute to humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Context Forking to Save Time, Tokens and Trouble
Context forking is a powerful coding agent primitive that allows you to build up high-quality context and then reuse it multiple times.
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Long-Context Isn't the Answer
We tried Opus with 1M context for coding agents, and now we're switching back. It turns out it's not about the size of the context window - it's about the quality.
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Skill Issue: Harness Engineering for Coding Agents
Harness engineering is the art and science of leveraging your coding agent's configuration points to improve output quality and increase task success rates.
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A Brief History of Ralph
The Ralph Wiggum Technique went viral in the last week of 2025. Here's the story of ralph since the first time I met Geoff in June of 2025.
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Writing a good CLAUDE.md
CLAUDE.md is a high-leverage configuration point for Claude Code. Learning how to write a good CLAUDE.md (or AGENTS.md) is a key skill for agent-enabled software engineering.
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Human Layer Clone now available as a Claude plugin
Human Layer https://www.humanlayer.dev/ is a YC startup working on creating a better workflow for agentic tooling, and I have developed a Claude Code plugin with GitHub workflow scripts that let you build a similar workflow to Human Layer.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at HumanLayer over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
17
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
80/100
Languages
Bash
Go
Rust
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Databases
ElasticSearch
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Figma
Linux
Developer tools
Claude Code
OpenAI Codex
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Context Engineering
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$250k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $250k | $250k |
Highest paying role
Founding Product Engineer
$250k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
58/100
Growing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~17 hours
09/30/2026
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
100% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Rust to stack
Sep 2026
Added Redis to stack
Sep 2026
Added React.js to stack
Sep 2026
Added Go to stack
Sep 2026
Added Figma to stack
Sep 2026
Added ElasticSearch to stack
Sep 2026
Added Bash to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS to stack
Sep 2026
Added OpenAI Codex to stack
Aug 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack
Aug 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Product
Jobs
$180k – $250k per year • Equity 1–3% • In office • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
Go
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Bash
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
AI/ML
Claude Code
AI Agents
OpenAI Codex
Context Engineering
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
AWS
Linux
Design
Figma
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