Founder of a listed tool
Chris Battarbee
Founder and builder, named behind the withHuman listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Chris builds
withHuman D · Human approval & handoff
withHuman is a hosted approval service for AI agents from Metoro Inc. It holds an agent's tool calls for a person to approve or deny through the Agent Approval Protocol API, coding-agent hooks, an MCP gateway and an MCP server.
Founder and builder, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
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Who is Chris Battarbee?
Chris Battarbee is a founder of withHuman, an open-source approval layer that applies rules before AI agents take actions such as issuing refunds. Y Combinator lists the company in its Summer 2023 batch. He was previously a software engineer at Palantir, where he built the compute platform for Foundry.
What does Metoro Inc make?
Anchor Terminal lists withHuman from Metoro Inc. withHuman is a hosted approval service for AI agents from Metoro Inc. It holds an agent's tool calls for a person to approve or deny through the Agent Approval Protocol API, coding-agent hooks, an MCP gateway and an MCP server.
Who has invested in Metoro Inc?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator.
How are Chris's tools graded?
withHuman is graded D, 52.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (10)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/metoro
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1239892-chris-battarbee
- https://chrisbattarbee.com/about
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbattarbee
- https://x.com/chrisjbattarbee
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/withhuman
- https://withhuman.ai/
- https://withhuman.ai
- https://x.com/withHumanAI
- https://withhuman.ai/support
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