humanlayer vs oh-my-openagent
oh-my-openagent is much bigger: 70.2k stars against 11.7k. Over the days we have tracked them humanlayer moved +5.1% and oh-my-openagent +5.7%, so oh-my-openagent is growing faster right now.
oh-my-openagent leads on context depth and noise control and customization and privacy and model freedom and setup ease. humanlayer does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
This repository is an archived/deprecated reference implementation and public issue history that points to an actively rebuilt service at humanlayer.com.
- Stars
- 11.7k
- Tracked growth
- +5.1%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 4d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Cost to run
- Unclear; depends on deployment
Orchestrates multiple agent harnesses and parallel "discipline" agents (Team Mode) to run whole-repo autonomous workflows rather than a single-model single-agent approach.
- Stars
- 70.2k
- Tracked growth
- +5.7%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1h ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Cost to run
- Requires your provider subscriptions / API keys
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | humanlayer | oh-my-openagent |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff only | ●●●●● Whole-repo analysis |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● No controls | ●●●●● Basic filters |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● No customization | ●●●●● Config + plugins |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Third-party cloud | ●●●●● Cloud APIs (your key) |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Fixed provider | ●●●●● Multi-provider / BYOK |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Complex setup | ●●●●● One-command install |
Which one to pick
Pick humanlayer if…
Archived/reference — inspect historical implementation and issue history or follow the maintained rebuild at humanlayer.com rather than use this deprecated code directly.
Pick oh-my-openagent if…
Multi-provider orchestration — choose this when you want an open, extensible agent harness that coordinates many models/agents for complex, whole-repo automation and installs quickly via a one-line command.
- Context depth: Whole-repo analysis (5/5 against 1/5)
- Noise control: Basic filters (3/5 against 1/5)
- Customization: Config + plugins (4/5 against 1/5)
- Privacy: Cloud APIs (your key) (3/5 against 1/5)
- Model freedom: Multi-provider / BYOK (5/5 against 1/5)
- Setup ease: One-command install (5/5 against 1/5)
What people want from each one
humanlayer/humanlayer
Hacker News: Show HN: HumanLayer – Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents drew 5 points and 2 comments.
code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent
Hacker News: Agent-Model Matching Guide drew 2 points and 0 comments.
Questions people ask
Is humanlayer better than oh-my-openagent?
oh-my-openagent leads on context depth and noise control and customization and privacy and model freedom and setup ease. humanlayer does not take any axis by a clear margin. humanlayer is worth picking when archived/reference — inspect historical implementation and issue history or follow the maintained rebuild at humanlayer.com rather than use this deprecated code directly.
Which of humanlayer and oh-my-openagent keeps my code private?
humanlayer: Third-party cloud (1/5). oh-my-openagent: Cloud APIs (your key) (3/5).
What does each one cost to run?
humanlayer: Unclear; depends on deployment. oh-my-openagent: Requires your provider subscriptions / API keys.
Full profiles: humanlayer/humanlayer and code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent. Everything else in Autonomous SWE agents.