OpenHands

OpenHands is the open, model-agnostic platform designed to deploy and orchestrate autonomous AI coding agents, directly targeting the repetitive and complex "toil" that burdens engineering backlogs. By equipping AI with the full suite of a human developer's tools—from code modification and command execution to API calls and web browsing—OpenHands enables teams to scale from managing single tasks to coordinating thousands of parallel runs. It’s built for engineering teams seeking transparent, secure, and highly customizable automation across their entire software development lifecycle.

Key Features

OpenHands agents are engineered for real-world development workflows, offering functional depth and architectural flexibility essential for enterprise adoption.

• 🌐 Deep Toolchain Integration: Delegate tasks directly from where your team works. OpenHands integrates natively with major version control systems (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket), communication hubs (Slack), and project management tools, allowing you to summon agents based on conversations or ticketing status, ensuring seamless automation without forcing workflow changes.
• 🧠 Model-Agnostic Flexibility: Avoid vendor lock-in by adapting OpenHands to your preferred large language model (LLM). The platform is designed to work seamlessly with leading providers like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini, or even your own custom models, providing fine-grained configurability to match your specific performance, privacy, and cost requirements.
• 🔒 Secure, Sandboxed Runtime: Every agent executes within its own ephemeral, containerized environment. Whether deployed in the cloud or self-hosted in Docker or Kubernetes, this secure sandbox architecture ensures isolation, full access control (RBAC), and detailed audit trails, giving you complete visibility and control over agent activities and code access.
• 🛠️ Extensible Agent SDK and Customization: Tailor the platform precisely to your codebase and environment. Utilize the Agent SDK to build custom workflows, create specialized knowledge prompts using Microagents, or define Setup Scripts that initialize the agent's environment every time it starts work on a repository, ensuring context and consistency.
• ⚡ Asynchronous Task Execution: Scale from a single fix to large-scale, multi-repo changes effortlessly. Agents handle tasks asynchronously, enabling efficient parallel processing necessary for major initiatives like dependency upgrades, large refactoring efforts, or mass security vulnerability fixes across your entire organization.

Use Cases

OpenHands automates critical engineering tasks, reducing the "Outer Loop" of toil and freeing up human developers for innovation.

1. Accelerate Code Review and Feedback Loops: Speed up the time-to-merge by deploying specialized agents to automate the code review process. Agents can instantly summarize complex pull requests, apply minor feedback, fix failing tests, and push immediate corrections, transforming code review cycles from hours into minutes.
2. Eliminate Security and Technical Debt: Tackle large-scale, cross-repository maintenance tasks that are often deprioritized. Use OpenHands to automatically upgrade outdated dependencies, patch security vulnerabilities across multiple services simultaneously, or refactor legacy codebases, reducing operational risk and modernizing your stack without stalling your roadmap.
3. Ensure Comprehensive Test Coverage and Documentation: Guarantee reliability by automating the creation and maintenance of tests for new features. Furthermore, agents can generate accurate, up-to-date documentation and release notes directly from commit history and pull request summaries, eliminating manual updates and ensuring consistency.

Why Choose OpenHands?

OpenHands is the only open, secure, and scalable agent platform built specifically for sophisticated engineering workflows, prioritizing transparency and control.

Conclusion

OpenHands provides the foundation for secure, transparent, and highly effective autonomous software development. By putting control, scalability, and model flexibility in your hands, you can delegate engineering toil, accelerate complex workflows, and empower your team to focus on high-value development.