# no_human **From ticket to reviewed pull request.**
***Free and open-source, on your machine.*** **English** · [简体中文](README.zh-CN.md) · [日本語](README.ja.md) · [한국어](README.ko.md) · [Español](README.es.md) · [Français](README.fr.md) · [Deutsch](README.de.md) · [Português (Brasil)](README.pt-BR.md) [![latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/no-human-ai/no_human?label=release&color=4C9AFF)](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/releases/latest) [![CI](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/no-human-ai/no_human/ci.yml?branch=main&label=CI)](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [![python 3.12+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.12%2B-blue)](https://www.python.org/) [![license MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)](LICENSE) [![downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/no-human-ai/no_human/total?label=downloads&color=4C9AFF)](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/releases) [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-join-5865F2?logo=discord&logoColor=white)](https://discord.gg/mSARvj6yW6) [getnohuman.com](https://getnohuman.com) · [Quickstart](docs/quickstart.md) · [Docs](docs/README.md) · [Watch it work a sprint](https://getnohuman.com/demo) · [Discord](https://discord.gg/mSARvj6yW6) [![Download for macOS](https://img.shields.io/badge/Download%20for-macOS-4C9AFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/releases/latest) [![Download for Windows](https://img.shields.io/badge/Download%20for-Windows-4C9AFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://getnohuman.com/) [![Download for Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/Download%20for-Linux-4C9AFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://getnohuman.com/) The no_human board: one task waiting on a question in Needs answer, four tasks working in parallel, one pull request ready for review. ▶ Watch the loop — a ticket in, a reviewed pull request out; the whole loop in 57 seconds.
The AI coding factory you **can trust**: - **A plan before any code**, from the ticket plus what it finds in your repo. When planning fails, the coder is told it is working without one; when the change is judged trivial the plan is skipped without telling the coder, by design — the skip is still stated in the run's event stream. - **An adversarial review.** A different model, in a session that never saw the coder's transcript, told to refute "done". You get a pass/fail checklist citing file and line — never a numeric self-score. - **A tamper guard.** Deleted tests, new skips, an assertion turned into a tautology — counted mechanically before the review gate runs, then justified against your acceptance criteria or the attempt stops. - **Proof the fix fixed the bug.** The tests offered as evidence must fail at the merge base and pass on the new tree — the reproduction gate runs both. Out of the box that binds a Python bug fix; `repro_gate.mode: required` binds every kind and every change. - **Your tests run**, locally and optionally through your CI — and a PR that found no test command says **NOT RUN** on its face. - **An honest stop.** When it cannot finish it stops and says why — a specific question when your answer would unblock it, a structured record when it has simply run out of budget — never an invented plausible diff. **What the gate caught** no_human builds no_human. Over 65 days on its own board, none of this reached a pull request: - **505 of 1,709 attempts** the coder called done were sent back by the second model, each with a pass/fail checklist citing file and line. - **44 attempts** were stopped before the review even ran, for deleting or weakening a test. - **46 bug-fix proofs** were refused because the test offered as evidence passed on the old code too. [How these were counted](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/releases/tag/metrics-2026-09) ## Install ### One line (CLI + board) ```bash uv tool install no-human # or: pipx install no-human — the wheel ships the board nh init && nh doctor # token, config, first repo; then prove the install is real ``` ### Desktop app [![Download for macOS](https://img.shields.io/badge/Download%20for-macOS-4C9AFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/releases/latest) [![Download for Windows](https://img.shields.io/badge/Download%20for-Windows-4C9AFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://getnohuman.com/) [![Download for Linux](https://img.shields.io/badge/Download%20for-Linux-4C9AFF?style=for-the-badge)](https://getnohuman.com/) Each release ships a SHA-256 alongside the artifact. Platform notes and the first-run walk-through: [docs/quickstart.md](docs/quickstart.md). ### From source ```bash git clone https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human.git && cd no_human uv sync # installs the `nh` entry point into .venv (cd web && npm install && npm run build) # builds the board (cold first install can take minutes) uv run nh init # token, config, first repo (about 2 minutes) uv run nh doctor # verify the install is real before relying on it ``` The `web` build is not optional if you want the board: a source checkout ships no `web/dist`, so without it `nh start` serves the API only and renders no UI. Needs Python 3.12+, [uv](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv), git, and Node with npm for the board build. ## Product highlights

A plan before any code

Acceptance criteria you can check, written from the ticket and your repo.

 The task's plan: what we understood as three acceptance criteria, the two files to change, the approach, the test plan, what is out of scope, and the verification command.

An independent reviewer

A second model that never saw the coder's session, told to refute "done". Pass or fail; every finding that blocks cites file and line.

 The reviewer's verdict: PASSED, each acceptance criterion ticked with the file and line that satisfies it, one non-blocking nit with the diff it points at.

Your tests, on the PR's face

Run locally or through your CI. No test command found reads NOT RUN, never blank.

 The task's Test results panel: CLEAN, 5 passed of 5 total, with the pytest output underneath.

A tamper guard

Deleted tests, new skips and tautological assertions are counted before review. Unjustified, the attempt stops.

 A stopped attempt: a red TAMPER DETECTED banner, the reviewer verdict FAILED, and the blocking finding that three tests were deleted without an acceptance criterion to justify it.

Proof the fix fixed the bug

The tests offered as evidence must fail on the old code and pass on the new. The gate runs both, and the event log shows the verdict.

 The task's event log: tests pass, status reviewing, the reviewer's tamper check reading none, the reproduction gate reading pass, required, then lint, commit and the pull request opening.

An honest stop

When it needs you, it parks with one specific question instead of guessing.

 The board's Needs answer lane: one task parked with its question, 'Dedupe by user, or by digest id?', and an Answer question button; the Working and Review PR lanes beside it.

Your tracker's tickets, on your board

Pick Jira or Linear tickets from the backlog (monday.com boards are polled). Each one is scoped with you before it starts.

 The Backlog synced from Jira: four matching tickets selected, and a Start 4 tasks button.
Stills: the real board on a demo workload. ## Run one task Run `nh` with no arguments for the shell: your lanes, a live event tail, and an intake you describe a task to in plain English. Every command below still works. ```bash nh # the shell nh start # board + worker on 127.0.0.1:8420 nh task add https://github.com/org/repo/issues/42 --repo ~/git/repo nh status # needs-you / working / waiting / done nh review # the reviewer's evidence checklist nh diff # the diff it wants to ship nh approve # your approval squash-lands the PR (git.approve_identity) nh reject --reason "..." # send it back with feedback ``` ## Integrations Point no_human at the tracker you already use and it pulls the tickets to your board — a tracker's filter lives in your config, never in a task's own text, and a transport error logs and retries on the next tick instead of crashing the pool. | Tracker | How tickets arrive | Filter you configure | |---|---|---| | **Jira Cloud** | Polled via REST `search/jql` (HTTP Basic `email:token`) | `integrations.jira.jql` | | **Linear** | Polled via the GraphQL API | `integrations.linear.team_key` + `state_types` + `label` | | **monday.com** | Polled via GraphQL v2 | `integrations.monday.board_id` + `status_column` + `todo_labels` | With write-back on (`write_back`, off by default), the ticket moves with the task — matched by status category, type, or the label you name, never a hard-coded transition id — and gets the PR link; a task that needs a human is commented on, never transitioned. GitHub and GitLab issues import as tasks by URL, and PRs or MRs open on your own host; Slack and Teams get a message when a task needs you; Jenkins and CircleCI can run your test layers and gate the loop. Setup for each: [docs/adapters.md](docs/adapters.md). **Watch the Jira flow end to end** — tickets synced from a Jira board, scoped, implemented, and delivered as a review-passed pull request (click for the full video with every step): [![Jira flow demo](https://getnohuman.com/assets/demo-jira.gif)](https://getnohuman.com/assets/demo-jira.mp4)

▶️  Play the full demo — 1:33, from Jira board to review-passed PR

## GitHub Action Run the same adversarial reviewer and tamper guard as a pull-request check — one shot, no daemon, no `~/.no_human` database, and not the queueing `nh review` CLI path. It judges the diff alone: unlike a local run, it collects no lint, wiring or type evidence and does not explore the repository. It posts a single pass/fail checklist comment with `file:line` citations, found by its own marker and updated in place on every run rather than creating a new one each time. ```yaml # .github/workflows/review-gate.yml name: no_human review gate on: pull_request: permissions: contents: read pull-requests: write jobs: review: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - uses: actions/checkout@v4 with: fetch-depth: 0 ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }} - uses: no-human-ai/no_human@main # no versioned tag yet — see below with: credential: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }} github_token: ${{ github.token }} ``` `permissions.contents: read` lets `actions/checkout` read this repository; `pull-requests: write` is what lets the Action post/update its own comment. Neither grants anything broader. The checkout step's explicit `ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}` matters too: on a `pull_request` event, `actions/checkout` otherwise checks out an ephemeral merge commit rather than the PR's actual head, and the Action reviews and cites line numbers against whatever tree is on disk — it refuses to run rather than review the wrong one, so omitting `ref:` here turns into a red, actionable exit `2`, not a silent misreview. This Action has no versioned release yet — `no-human-ai/no_human`'s tags today run `v0.1.0` through `v0.2.3`, none of which contain `action.yml`. A `v1` tag will be cut at the first release that ships it. Until then, pin to `@main` for the latest revision, or better, pin to the exact commit SHA you've reviewed (`no-human-ai/no_human@`) so a later change to `main` can't alter what your workflow runs. `credential` takes either shape of your own Anthropic credential — an `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (`sk-ant-api...`) or a Claude subscription OAuth token minted with `claude setup-token` (`sk-ant-oat...`) — auto-detected from its prefix, or pinned explicitly with `credential_mode: oauth` / `credential_mode: api_key`. Whichever shape you pass, the other credential path is scrubbed from the job's environment before the reviewer runs, and the value itself is masked in the log the moment it is read. **A credential is required, and there is no silent fallback.** If `secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (or whatever secret you wire into `credential`) is empty, unset, or a shape the Action can't recognize even in `auto` mode, the run fails loudly at exit code `2` — naming the `credential` input and the secret it expects — before the reviewer, or any GitHub API call, ever runs. The same fail-closed rule applies if the reviewer itself errors out or the model call is rejected: those runs exit `2` too. The Action never posts a PASS, and never exits `0`, for a credential or reviewer failure — but a green check does **not** always mean the gate reviewed code: a fork pull request skips with exit `0` and no reviewer call (see below), and a pull request with an empty diff (nothing to review) posts a synthetic PASS with no reviewer or tamper-guard call. If you make this a required check, treat both of those as "did not review," not as an approval. A diff larger than the reviewer's single-turn cap is refused with exit `2` instead of being reviewed as a truncated prefix, so that case is never a green check: lower `max_files` or split the pull request. **Forks are skipped, not reviewed.** A pull request whose head is not this repository — including one from an already-deleted fork — never reaches the reviewer or the model; the Action exits 0 with a comment-free explanation instead of running review code against an unvetted head in a job that can see your secrets. `pull_request_target` is refused outright (exit 2), even with a valid credential, because that trigger is the one shape that can carry a fork's head into a secret-bearing job. **Dependabot pull requests fail closed with exit `2`, and that is GitHub's restriction, not this Action's.** A Dependabot-opened pull request has the same repository as its head — it is not a fork, so the check above does not skip it — but GitHub itself withholds repository secrets (and downgrades `GITHUB_TOKEN` to read-only) from workflow runs it triggers on the `pull_request` event, as a platform-level guard against a lockfile update carrying a malicious install script into a secret-bearing job. `credential` therefore arrives empty on those runs, and this Action's own fail-closed rule (above) makes that a red, actionable exit `2` naming the missing secret, not a silent skip or a false PASS. If you require this check and want Dependabot PRs to go green, either exempt them in your branch protection rules or accept that they need a maintainer's manual re-run/approval like any other check that needs a secret GitHub won't hand to a bot-triggered job. **Cost is bounded by files, not tokens or time.** `max_files` (default `15`) caps how many changed files are sent to the reviewer, sorted by path, first-N; the comment reports how many of the total were actually reviewed. The reviewer runs `single_turn`, so a passing run is one model call over the capped diff, and a failing one may add a single bounded refute pass — in rough terms, a few cents to a few tens of cents of your own Anthropic usage depending on diff size, similar in shape to one local `nh review`. That is separate from the one-time cost of the runner building the Docker image itself (a few tens of seconds, GitHub-hosted-runner compute, not model spend) on each run unless your workflow caches the image. Lower `max_files` (or split large pull requests) to spend less. The Action never merges, pushes, approves, or edits anything about the pull request beyond its own single comment — enforced in code, not just by convention: every GitHub API call is checked against a two-endpoint allowlist (list/create/update that one comment thread) before it is sent. Set `fail_on_findings: false` to keep the comment without failing the check, or `dry_run: true` to print the verdict to the job log/summary and make no GitHub API calls at all. **Known limitation: the tamper guard's "full test tree" claim holds for ASCII test filenames, not non-ASCII ones.** The tamper check walks every test file in the repository (not just the `max_files`-capped subset sent to the reviewer) via an unquoted `git ls-tree`, so a test file whose name contains non-ASCII bytes is listed in git's C-quoted string form (e.g. `"r\303\251gression_test.py"`) instead of its real path, and silently drops out of the guard's before/after comparison — deleting or weakening such a file will not currently be caught. This Action's own diffed/reviewed file list is not affected by the equivalent problem (it explicitly re-quotes and re-verifies every path it hands to the reviewer), but the underlying tamper-check module is out of scope for this Action to change. If your test suite has non-ASCII test filenames, treat the tamper guard as best-effort for those specific files until that's fixed upstream. **Known limitation: two runs racing each other, or a pull request already carrying 1,000+ other comments, can produce a duplicate.** The Action finds its own prior comment by listing the PR's comments (up to 10 pages of 100) and picking the lowest-id one carrying its marker; two runs started close together can both list before either creates, and each will create its own comment. A later run of either still converges — it lists again, finds the lowest-id marked comment, and updates that one — but the extra comment is not deleted. The same "list, then act" gap means a marked comment that would only appear on page 11 or later (over 1,000 other comments already on the pull request) reads as absent and gets a new one created rather than updated. Both are accepted, documented bounds rather than silent failures: if your workflow can trigger two runs for the same commit, add a `concurrency:` group keyed on the pull request to serialize them. ## MCP server — hand it work from the agent you are already in no_human ships an **MCP (Model Context Protocol) server**: a stdio bridge, built on the official Python MCP SDK, that lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client file work with your local no_human and check on it. ```bash nh mcp-serve # the MCP server, over stdio ``` Two tools, and no more: | Tool | What it does | |---|---| | `task_add(title, description, repo_path)` | Files a task. no_human then plans it, writes the change, runs your tests, has a second model review it, and opens the pull request. | | `task_status(task_id_or_external_id)` | Returns that task's current state — status, attempts, the PR link once there is one. | It talks to your own no_human at `http://127.0.0.1:8420` and nothing else: no auth, because that address is localhost, and no service of ours in between. For Claude Code, the same server ships as a plugin — this repository is its own plugin marketplace, so the two tools appear in your session after: ``` /plugin marketplace add no-human-ai/no_human /plugin install no-human@no-human-ai ``` Any other MCP client takes the usual stdio entry: ```jsonc // .mcp.json { "mcpServers": { "no_human": { "command": "nh", "args": ["mcp-serve"] } } } ``` The plugin also ships the `review-this-branch` skill, which does not need the MCP server or `~/.no_human` at all: it runs `nh gate`, a one-shot CLI verb that puts the fresh-session adversarial reviewer and the tamper guard directly on your current branch or a GitHub pull request, using your own Claude credential, and exits with a pass/fail Markdown checklist, with nothing installed or running beyond the `nh` CLI itself. ```bash nh gate # current branch vs. its merge base with origin's default branch nh gate --pr # a GitHub pull request's head vs. its merge base ``` ## Docs | | | |---|---| | [quickstart.md](docs/quickstart.md) | Zero to first task, per platform | | [configuration.md](docs/configuration.md) | Every setting and default | | [verification.md](docs/verification.md) | The gates, the bounded loop, the limits | | [security.md](docs/security.md) | Auth boundary, the never-merge rule, guards | | [blockers.md](docs/blockers.md) | Escalation, wake watcher, `nh reply` | | [adapters.md](docs/adapters.md) | Intake, context, VCS and CI backends | | [eval.md](docs/eval.md) | Golden set, replay scoring, shadow mode | | [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) | What changed, per release | ## Development ```bash uv sync uv run pytest -q uv run nh --help ``` Issues and pull requests welcome; run `uv run pytest -q` before submitting. If no_human saved you a review cycle, a star helps other people find it: [![GitHub stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/no-human-ai/no_human?style=social)](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/stargazers) ## Community Questions, bug reports and runs worth showing: join the [Discord](https://discord.gg/mSARvj6yW6), post on [r/no_human](https://www.reddit.com/r/no_human/), or open a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/no-human-ai/no_human/issues). ## License MIT — see [LICENSE](LICENSE). The licence covers the code, not the name: [TRADEMARK.md](TRADEMARK.md) is the policy on using "no_human" and the logo. Packaging a binary carries obligations the source tree does not, listed in [THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md](THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md).