OpenHands
Open-source autonomous coding agent for real development tasks
OpenHands is profiled here as a Coding Assistant tool for engineering teams. Read about features, pricing, and how it compares to related options in the tools directory.
Description
OpenHands is an open-source software development agent from All Hands AI, the company that CMU professor Graham Neubig and Robert Brennan formed in 2024 around the former OpenDevin research project. The agent takes a task, then writes code, runs shell commands, browses documentation, and opens pull requests inside an isolated runtime. Teams run it through a CLI, a local interface, or the managed OpenHands Cloud.
Key Capabilities:
Autonomous coding agent that edits files, executes commands, and browses the web
Sandboxed Docker runtime that isolates agent actions from the host machine
GitHub and GitLab integration for issue-to-pull-request workflows
MCP support for connecting external tools and data sources
Headless mode and SDK for embedding agents in CI pipelines
MIT-licensed core with a managed cloud option
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