HumanLayer Docs

Choose a page by what you need to do. Each section serves a different reader goal.

Tutorials

Tutorials teach you through a guided, successful task.

Run your first HumanLayer task: install the macOS app and run one small task with Claude Code.
Run a task on a remote daemon: connect a remote host with a launch token and select it for one task.

How-to guides help you complete a specific task.

Choose and run a workflow: choose a workflow, review each phase, and finish the task.
Set up a workspace: configure where HumanLayer creates task worktrees with workspace.json and workspace.local.json.
Run a remote daemon: run HumanLayer on Linux, Windows, a remote machine, or a private-network host.
Set up Codex CLI: authenticate Codex and select it as a provider.
Run Claude through AWS Bedrock: configure Bedrock and pin the models that sessions use.
Create tasks from GitHub issues: connect repositories and use source-issue artifact links.
Send task updates to Slack: send selected HumanLayer events to Slack channels.
Run workflows from Linear issues: create tasks, prepare RPI states, and link work back to Linear.
Create tasks from Jira tickets: connect Jira and start work from a ticket.

Explanation pages help you understand product concepts and the reasons behind them.

How workflow phases fit together: understand the planning paths, phases, and review points.
How HumanLayer tasks work: understand how tasks group sessions, shared work, and synced files.
How workspace configuration works: understand shared config, local overrides, and multi-repository workspaces.
How remote daemons work: understand daemon hosts, authentication, capabilities, and security.

Skills and workflows: every canonical skill, alias, artifact, checkpoint, and handoff.
Sub-agent models and effort: how Claude Code and Codex choose child models and effort levels.
System prompt additions: exact prompt text that HumanLayer adds for specific sessions.
Workspace config: every workspace config field, default, merge rule, and example.

Release notes list product changes by version.