HumanLayer

Hyperagent is an AI agent platform presented by Airtable founder Howie Liu that deploys a fleet of agents to research, draft, build, deliver, and maintain outputs such as websites, videos, presentations, documents, and dashboards using an organization's data, tools, and working style. Agents run in dedicated computing environments with access to real browsers, shells, files, and connected software; their execution can be inspected as searches, decisions, and generated artifacts. The platform supports always-on agents with scheduled or heartbeat wake-ups, agent-to-agent orchestration, human approval steps, and learning through generated memories and skills. Agents can be invoked from Slack, email, or Telegram, through webhooks, or on a schedule, and are managed from a central command center.

12-Factor Agents is an open-source guide from HumanLayer covering principles for building reliable LLM-powered applications for production customers; it is maintained as a public repository that welcomes feedback and contributions. Its 12 factors address owning prompts and context windows, treating tools as structured outputs, unifying execution and business state, pausing and resuming through simple APIs, human interaction through tool calls, control-flow ownership, compacting errors into context, focused agents, user-triggered execution, and stateless reducers. The guide describes an agent loop in which an LLM selects a structured tool call or completion, deterministic code executes the call, and the result is appended to the context before the next decision; it advocates incorporating small, modular agent concepts into existing software rather than depending wholly on a framework. The content and images are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, while code is licensed under Apache 2.0.

Munder Difflin is a free, open-source desktop multi-agent harness that runs multiple terminal-based AI coding agents as coordinated local agents. It wraps agents including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, and custom commands, working with users' existing subscriptions and hourly usage limits. Each agent runs as a real node-pty process and is rendered through xterm.js, while an Electron and React interface displays sessions as avatars on a Pixi.js office floor. A GOD orchestrator called Michael assigns and routes work, adjudicates agent messages, and escalates spending, destructive operations, scope changes, and other configured approvals. Agents coordinate through a local Git-backed hive of plain-file memory, atomic mailboxes, a shared blackboard, and an append-only event log; a markdown-first semantic memory layer supports recall across sessions. Optional Git worktrees isolate parallel agents.

Hera is an AI-native creative canvas for generating images, designs, and motion graphics on one canvas. Users can brief multiple AI agents at the same time, generate and compare results, and refine outputs as editable layers rather than flattened images; the canvas supports design work, animation, and launch-film creation. The video describes Hera as offering an API and MCP, while the product page says it provides editable-layer generation and tools for directing, iterating on, and animating designs.