OpenHands

A self-hosted AI coding agent platform runs locally or on servers, supports Claude Code and Codex, and automates engineering workflows.

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OpenHands is an AI coding agent platform for developers and teams that want agents to carry out code changes and recurring engineering work. Agent Canvas provides a control center for agent conversations and automations.

Code changes and checks: Agents can plan and apply changes, investigate failures, run checks and prepare pull requests, with engineers controlling review, approval and merge.
Engineering automations: GitHub, Slack, Jira, Linear and schedules can trigger issue triage, pull request reviews, CI fixes and documentation updates.
Agent and model choice: Use OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or an ACP-compatible agent, with closed models or open weights such as Kimi, DeepSeek and Qwen.
Parallel work: Run multiple agents concurrently, optionally giving each conversation a separate Docker sandbox.
Internal tools: MCP connections let agents use internal tools, APIs and data sources.

The open source core uses the MIT license. OpenHands runs locally by default and can connect to agent backends on VMs or infrastructure you control. Docker deployment supports macOS, Windows and Linux. The separate commercial OpenHands Cloud service offers optional hosted agent execution.

Running an agent directly on the host without a sandbox gives it full access to that machine's filesystem.