OpenHands
Open source · Agents and frameworks · OpenHands/OpenHands
What it does
OpenHands is an AI software agent that can write code, run commands and browse the web inside a sandbox. You give it a task, such as fixing a bug, and watch it work in a web interface or from the command line.
Good for: Handing a contained coding task to an agent while keeping it inside a sandbox.
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- Licence
- MIT (OSI-approved open-source licence)
- Popularity
- Stars: 91,016 (checked 16 Oct 2026)
- Last commit
- 16 Oct 2026
- Open issues and PRs
- 1,016
- Status
- Active (not archived)
- Self-host
- ModerateRuns in Docker, and needs a model API key or a local model.
- GitHub topics
- agent
- artificial-intelligence
- chatgpt
- claude-ai
- cli
- developer-tools
- gpt
- llm
- openai
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