HumanLayerSlowing
Approval and human-contact primitives for agents that take real actions.
Is it still shipping?
Barely. HumanLayer is still open but slowing down. The last commit was 3 months ago, and it scores 48/100.
freshness 48/100
Every night it was read41 nightly readings, August 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026. Bar height is freshness out of 100; the ink is the verdict that night.
65, maintained25, dead
August 1, 2026September 13, 2026
How the verdict was reached
read September 13, 2026 from the GitHub API for humanlayer/humanlayer| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base | 100 | 100 | Every row starts at 100, and the effects below move it. |
| Last commit | 3 months ago, June 19, 2026 | -28 | Last push 86 days ago. The commit line has slowed. |
| Commits, 90 days | 1 | none | Only 1 commit in the last 12 weeks. Too few to earn the volume credit. |
| Last release | nightly-0.1.0-nightly-20260227142452, 7 months ago | -5 | Last release 197 days ago (nightly-0.1.0-nightly-20260227142452). |
| Release cadence | 0 days, median | not scored | |
| Issue response | too few issues to sample | none | Not enough recent issues to measure a response time. |
| Unanswered issues | 100% of 8 sampled | -8 | 100% of the recent issues sampled have no maintainer reply at all. |
| Committers, 90 days | 1 | -5 | One person has committed in the last 90 days. Single point of failure. |
| Bus factor | 1 | not scored | |
| Archived | no | not scored | |
| Licence | none declared | -6 | No license file. Legally unsafe to depend on regardless of activity. |
| Freshness | 48/100 | 48 | 26 to 64 is slowing. |
Nights the verdict changed
2 in the readings above| August 13, 2026 | slowing to maintained | 66 | freshness 59 the night before, 66 that night |
| August 19, 2026 | maintained to slowing | 56 | freshness 66 the night before, 56 that night |