OpenHands

OpenHands is a coding agent platform for developers and teams that want agents to make changes across a codebase and handle recurring engineering work. You can run it on your own computer or self-host it on a server. Its core is open source under the MIT license, and a separate OpenHands Cloud service offers hosted execution.

Agents can investigate issues, edit code, run checks and prepare pull requests. OpenHands also supports workflows triggered by repository activity, schedules and tools such as GitHub, Slack, Jira and Linear. That makes it useful for work that starts outside an editor, including pull request reviews, CI failures, issue triage and documentation updates. Engineers retain control over review, approval and merge.

The platform isn't tied to one coding agent or model. It can run the OpenHands agent alongside Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and compatible third-party agents. It works with closed models and open-weight models such as Kimi, DeepSeek and Qwen, with execution on a local machine, a VM or infrastructure controlled by an organization. Docker-based local setups are documented for macOS, Windows and Linux. MCP connections let agents use internal tools and data sources.

For teams, the shared control center brings conversations and automations together across repositories. Agents can work in isolated environments, and organizations can control access and audit their actions. Self-hosting gives an organization control over agent execution and workspace storage. Calls to hosted model providers still send their inputs to those services. OpenHands Cloud runs agents on the hosted service.