HumanLayer
@humanlayer • Open source projects from humanlayer. Use this route to separate flagship concentration from portfolio breadth before you treat a publisher as broadly strong.
Portfolio concentration
97%
Top three share
Shows whether the organization is driven by one breakout repo or several visible projects.
Breadth
21 repos
Visible snapshot
12 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Leading language
TypeScript
Portfolio mix
TypeScript (10), Unknown (6), Go (3)
Average size
1.9K
Stars per repository
Useful for distinguishing one flagship-heavy publisher from a repeatable portfolio.
Updated: 2026-08-20(5d ago)GitHub API fallback21 repositories
97%
of the visible star count comes from this organization's top three repositories.
1.9K
stars per repository in this same snapshot.
TypeScript
is the most common language here, with 12 repositories updated in the last 90 days.
Why this rank
This organization stands out because one flagship repo drives 63% of its visible star count.
Flagship share 63%Breakout repo: 12-factor-agents
Organization pages work best when you separate portfolio breadth from flagship concentration. In HumanLayer's case, the visible top three repositories account for about 97% of total stars in this snapshot, which helps explain whether the organization is known for one breakout project or for a broader repeatable portfolio.
The dominant language mix here is TypeScript (10), Unknown (6), Go (3). That makes this page useful not just for popularity checks, but also for seeing what technical shape an organization's public ecosystem actually has.
Top Repositories
| # | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humanlayer/12-factor-agents What are the principles we can use to build LLM-powered software that is actually good enough to put in the hands of production customers? | TypeScript | 25.5K |
| 2 | humanlayer/humanlayer The best way to get AI coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases. | TypeScript | 11.3K |
| 3 | humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents | 2.5K | |
| 4 | humanlayer/skills | TypeScript | 518 |
| 5 | humanlayer/agentcontrolplane ACP is the Agent Control Plane - a distributed agent scheduler optimized for simplicity, clarity, and control. It is designed for outer-loop agents that run without supervision, and make asynchronous tool calls like requesting human feedback on key operations. Full MCP support. | Go | 462 |
| 6 | humanlayer/fold Fold is an Effect-native, provider-agnostic, isomorphic agent core with an optional opinionated coding agent, CLI, and TUI. It supports multiple model providers (including openai/anthropic-compatible and subscription-backed providers for Codex, Grok, and OpenCode Zen), subagents, and RLM-like orchestration patterns. | TypeScript | 52 |
| 7 | humanlayer/rpi-coordination-template for using humanlayer rpi across many repos | 36 | |
| 8 | humanlayer/homebrew-humanlayer | Ruby | 28 |
| 9 | humanlayer/claudelayer Sub-agent recursion with Claude Code | TypeScript | 25 |
| 10 | humanlayer/genai-the-good-parts | Python | 22 |
| 11 | humanlayer/effect-durable-streams | TypeScript | 12 |
| 12 | humanlayer/riptide-rpi | 8 | |
| 13 | humanlayer/mcp-cli Turn any MCP server into a CLI for easy use with subagents | 7 | |
| 14 | humanlayer/pulumi-stripe Stripe Provider for Pulumi based on Terraform | Go | 5 |
| 15 | humanlayer/pulumi-resend Pulumi Provider for Resend API | Go | 4 |
| 16 | humanlayer/effect-channels Effect-based agent chat channels for linear, slack, github, etc | 1 | |
| 17 | humanlayer/ghostty-web Ghostty for the web with xterm.js API compatibility | TypeScript | 1 |
| 18 | humanlayer/ampere Typescript + Effect State Machine WAL parser | TypeScript | 0 |
| 19 | humanlayer/electric The agent platform built on sync. | 0 | |
| 20 | humanlayer/distilled Effect-native SDKs for cloud providers | TypeScript | 0 |
| 21 | humanlayer/react-hotkeys-hook React hook for using keyboard shortcuts in components. | TypeScript | 0 |
Next step after the organization read
Open a flagship repository, compare a couple of portfolio leaders, or return to the organization map when you want a broader concentration read.
Learn and methodology
Keep trust-building context reachable, but behind the first data read instead of ahead of it.
How to read this organization snapshot
Total stars are useful as a discovery signal, but they do not tell you whether a team maintains every repository equally. Pair this page with release cadence, maintainer activity, and the flagship concentration shown above before making adoption decisions.
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