humanlayer/humanlayer · freshness 59/100 · rescored August 4, 2026
HumanLayer
Approval and human-contact primitives for agents that take real actions.
The answer
Barely. HumanLayer is still open but slowing down — last commit 46 days ago, freshness 59/100.
| Signal | Value | Effect | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | 46 days ago | -18 | Last push 46 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 · 5 months ago | -12 | Last release 157 days ago against a 1-day cadence — over three times its own gap. |
| Release cadence | 1 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 4 sampled | not scored | |
| 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. |
| Stars | 11,195 | not scored | |
| Open issues | 58 | not scored |
The same verdict, in words
Against it: Last push 46 days ago. The commit line has slowed. Last release 157 days ago against a 1-day cadence — over three times its own gap. One person has committed in the last 90 days. Single point of failure. No license file — legally unsafe to depend on regardless of activity.
Last push 46 days ago, 1 commits in the last 90 days, last release nightly-0.1.0-nightly-20260227142452 5 months ago, 1 committer in 90 days. Read from the GitHub API; humanlayer/humanlayer carries 11,195 stars and 58 open issues.
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