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helping machines and humans get along.

Deins

Universal plugins for AI agents.

Deins is our plugin collection: Brain for knowledge, Spaces for workspaces, Community for collaboration and w⁴iya for authority, across agent workspaces.

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w⁴iya

A gateway that checks what your agent may do.

w⁴iya checks agent actions against mandates before they execute.

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The Deins collection

All components ↗
Brain

Knowledge that stays.

Sources and knowledge beyond individual conversations.

Spaces

Room for your work.

Working context for people and their agents.

Communities

Think further, together.

Connect people, agents and shared work.

w⁴iya

Authority that can be checked.

Identity, mandates and evidence for agents.

The capability stays the same. The adapter follows your workspace. Explore compatibility ↗

the authority chain for human-machine collaboration

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Who is your agent?

The agent’s identity, key binding and responsible owner.

Whose is your agent?

The organisation or person on whose behalf the agent acts.

What is your agent?

The role, task and authority assigned to the agent.

Where is your agent?

The systems and workspaces in which the agent acts.

From our research

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Testing environments

AgentDojo
ETH Zürich

Evaluation · 15 October 2026

w⁴iya in external testing environments.

The reported Arena C2 evaluation uses AgentDojo (ETH Zürich) ↗. The benchmark environment is not developed by HMRL. Compare the results and tested system architectures.

Explore the evaluation ↗Arena version · simulated human · not production acceptance

Whitepapers

Technical arguments and architecture.

Essays

Perspectives on people and machines.

Experiments

Questions, setups and findings.

The Human–Machine
Relations Lab.

We study how people and machines work together, and build the systems that make it possible.

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