What if AI agents need humans the way software needs APIs?

AI agents are getting surprisingly good at operating in the digital world.

They can browse, reason, write code, call tools, execute transactions and coordinate workflows.

But there is still a hard boundary:

The physical world.

An agent can analyze a photo of a damaged building.

It can't walk inside.

It can process an identity document.

It can't necessarily verify that the person actually exists at a particular location.

It can make a decision.

But it may still need someone to physically inspect, collect, measure, verify or exercise judgment.

So I started building Human Infrastructure Layer (HIL):

An open-source experiment around treating human capabilities as an infrastructure primitive for AI agents.

The abstraction looks like:

AI Agent
   ↓
Human Capability API
   ↓
VERIFY · INSPECT · EXECUTE · JUDGE
   ↓
Evidence + Trust
   ↓
Physical World

Instead of an agent asking:

the abstraction becomes:

or:

or:

The human is not the product.

The capability is.

And the interesting part isn't just task execution.

It's the trust layer:

Identity
+ Presence
+ Location
+ Timestamp
+ Evidence
+ Reputation
+ Task history
        ↓
Physical Trust

Over millions of interactions, this could potentially become a trust graph between autonomous agents and physical reality.

That's the thesis I'm exploring.

I'm deliberately not calling this "Uber for humans" or another gig marketplace.

I'm thinking more along the lines of:

There are already projects exploring human execution and agent-to-human marketplaces, so the interesting question isn't "Can AI hire humans?"

Clearly, it can.

The harder question is:

Can we standardize, verify and orchestrate human capabilities as infrastructure?

That's the problem I'm interested in.

The project is open source:

🔗 https://github.com/modarresi1913/human-infrastructure-layer

I'd genuinely like feedback from people working on AI agents, robotics, decentralized infrastructure, identity, insurance, logistics, or human-in-the-loop systems.

What is the biggest thing an autonomous AI agent will eventually need a human to do?

And more importantly:

Do you think "human capability as an API" is actually a meaningful infrastructure abstraction—or just another marketplace wearing an infrastructure label?