HumanLayer is joining Factory

I'm thrilled to announce today that HumanLayer is joining Factory to accelerate building autonomous, self-improving software for enterprises and developers. We have long admired Eno and Matan, and we are thrilled to be building the future of software factories together.

At HumanLayer, we've been power users of coding agents since early 2025, early on ideas like agent swarms and publishing the Research/Plan/Implement framework, one of the first viral skill packs in August 2025. We'll be hard at work getting all the most loved HumanLayer features into Factory ASAP, including multiplayer tasks/workstreams, in-app collaboration on docs and plans, and live session diff streaming.

Going forward, we will be open sourcing HumanLayer and, as we get these features landed, inviting HumanLayer users to Factory. The current HumanLayer platform will remain up and running during a transition period of at least 30 days, where we will support users in any or all of: exporting their data, migrating to Factory, or self-hosting the HumanLayer open source.

We'll also be refunding paying customers for the last several months.