About

NorthHarbor Development and its open source mission.

NorthHarbor Development is the open source home for principled tools and frameworks focused on human-AI collaboration. Our projects are developed in public, governed transparently, and designed to be useful to practitioners and researchers alike.

What We Build

We focus on the intersection of human agency and AI capability — frameworks, specifications, and tools that help people work with AI responsibly.

Our flagship project, HALOS (Human-Agent Living Operating System), is an open framework for principled collaboration between humans and intelligent agents. It defines core principles, governance processes, and machine-readable specifications that any team or tool can adopt.

How We Work

• Public by default. Code, specifications, and governance discussions happen in the open on GitHub.
• Principled. Human primacy, attribution, transparency of AI involvement, and ethical guardrails are foundational to everything we ship.
• Governed through process. Changes to frameworks and specifications go through an RFC-style proposal process with public review.

Get in Touch

We welcome questions, thoughtful feedback, and collaboration ideas at [email protected].

You can also follow project updates on LinkedIn or browse our work on GitHub.