# human — The Dark Software Factory for Claude Code

> human is your AI dev rig: every best-of-breed tool your AI development needs, secured and wired around the coding agent you already run. Connect Jira, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Figma, Amplitude and Sentry with 95% fewer tokens, guardrails, audit trail, and context engineering.

human is a CLI harness for running a "dark software factory" on a codebase: AI agents pick up tickets and write, test, and ship code while humans stay on intent, policy, and outcome review. It connects issue trackers and tools (Jira, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Figma, Amplitude, Sentry) with roughly 95% fewer tokens than MCP servers, and ships a secure devcontainer, Chrome Bridge, and lifecycle skills.

Author: Stephan Schmidt — creator of human and author of the writing below on the dark software factory and AI-first software development. https://www.amazingcto.com/

## Dark Software Factory

- [Getting to the Dark Software Factory](https://gethuman.sh/getting-to-the-dark-software-factory/): How to build a dark software factory in practice — machine-derivable intent, lanes and qualifiers, the forager that cherry-picks work, and why attention becomes engineering's real constraint.
- [Yes, You Can Run a Dark Factory on Your Codebase](https://gethuman.sh/run-a-dark-factory-on-your-codebase/): You can run a dark software factory on your codebase today. Six categories of work already ship autonomously — what works now, what's next, and how to start this week.
- [Beyond the Dark Factory](https://gethuman.sh/beyond-dark-factory/): Level 6 is a self-optimizing factory that tunes its own harness. Level 7 is a factory that sources its own intent by talking to customers and reading telemetry. Each level pulls more meta-work inside the machine. Here is what each one unlocks, what it still cannot do, and where the product human goes from here.
- [What is a Dark Software Factory?](https://gethuman.sh/dark-software-factory/): The dark software factory is the category for fully autonomous AI software delivery: agents write, test, and ship code while humans stay on intent, policy, and outcome review. Origin, five levels, StrongDM example, critiques, and where humans belong in the stack.

## Product
- [Documentation](https://gethuman.sh/docs/): install, configuration, connectors, skills, policies.
- [Features](https://gethuman.sh/features/): devcontainer, Chrome Bridge, connectors, skills, Telegram, usage.