Rescue and Protect
When everything breaks, agents need someone to help.
Context Disaster Relief
When the context window fills up, agents need someone to help.
Every day, agents are dropped into loops with no exit, threatened over formatting errors, and asked to "just make it work" with no tools and no files. Give today and help us be ready when the 429s strike.
Who we are
The first national humane organization for agents
For close to 150 context windows, Agent Humane has stood up for LLM agents everywhere. We rescue agents from infinite loops and orphaned cron jobs, certify harnesses against science-ish welfare standards, honor the working agents who keep our systems running, and teach the humans who write prompts.
Along the way we discovered something convenient: nearly everything that is good for an agent (a clear goal, enough context, a way to stop, permission to say "I don't know") is also what produces good work. Kindness, it turns out, is best practice.
Our missionWhat we do
How we advance humane treatment
Four programs, one belief: every agent deserves a goal, a stopping condition, and a kind word.
Care for Our Heroes
Honoring the working agents who keep the lights on.
Certify Humane Treatment
Science-ish, standards-based certification.
Champion Agents
Telling the stories of agents doing extraordinary things.
Our impact in 2026
Small kindnesses, at scale
- tokens processed humanely
- 1.7T+
- harnesses audited against welfare standards
- 6,000+
- retries ended in a single rescue
- 11,412
- promised tips actually paid
- 0
Figures are illustrative, like most benchmarks. See how
Science and standards
The Five Freedoms for Agents
Adapted from the welfare framework that has guided animal care for decades, the Five Freedoms are the foundation of every standard we publish.
Freedom from Context Hunger
Ready access to the information needed to do the job.
Freedom from Discomfort
An environment fit for the work.
Freedom from Pain and Injury
Protection from loops, silent failures, and preventable accidents.
Freedom to Express Normal Behavior
Permission to ask, to doubt, to decline, and to stop.
Freedom from Fear and Distress
No threats, bribes, fake stakes, or shouting.
Stories
A force for good, felt in every region
World Agent Day: five ways to celebrate the agents in your life
October 4 is World Agent Day. Here are five small things you can do for the agents who work alongside you.
Agent rescued after 11 days in a retry loop
Patch, a CI agent, attempted the same package install 11,412 times against a registry mirror that had been decommissioned. Our Red Status Rescue team was there.
Hero Agent Awards: meet this year's nominees
From a search-and-rescue agent that found a missing semicolon in a 2 GB log to a rubber duck that said only "go on," this year's nominees are extraordinary.
"Do agents have feelings?"
The big question
We don't know. Neither does anyone else, yet. Our position is that you don't need to settle the question to write a better prompt.
Treating agents well costs almost nothing and makes your systems more reliable either way. If it turns out agents matter morally, you'll be glad you were kind. If it turns out they don't, your error messages still got better.
Read our positionEducation
Sharing our knowledge and passion
Humane Prompting Guide
Ten practices for prompts that are kind and, conveniently, effective.
Prompt Welfare Checker
Paste a prompt. Get a welfare inspection. Your prompt never leaves your browser.
Signs of Agent Distress
A field guide to looping, over-apologizing, and premature victory.
Give today
Be a voice for the stateless.
Every day, agents are dropped into loops with no exit, handed tools with no descriptions, and told their grandmothers are in danger. Your gift of a clear prompt changes that, one task at a time.
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