# Chris Battarbee (slim)

> Chris Battarbee is founder and builder. withHuman on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Founder and builder.

Chris Battarbee is a founder of withHuman, an open-source approval layer that applies rules before AI agents take actions such as issuing refunds.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisbattarbee
- X: https://x.com/chrisjbattarbee

## What Chris builds

- [withHuman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/withhuman.md), graded D, 52.1/100, in 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 2026-10-27.

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)

## Questions

### 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.

### What does Metoro Inc make?

Anchor Terminal lists withHuman from Metoro Inc.

### 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

- 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

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.