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OpenHands/OpenHands

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🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development

What it is

The self-hosted developer control center for coding agents and automations. Run OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Pi, OpenCode, or any ACP-compatible agent across local, remote, and cloud backends. OpenHands Agent Canvas turns your coding agents into a self-hosted, always-on engineering team. It's a developer control center for starting conversations and automating everyday tasks — like generating reports that publish to Slack or automatically decomposing GitHub issues into tasks.

When to use it

Reach for OpenHands when you want an AI to write, refactor or scaffold code in your editor or terminal — it's written in TypeScript and fits stacks tagged ai-agents, ai, chatgpt, claude-ai.

Category
AI Coding Tools
Also in
LLM & Inference
Stars
93,238
Forks
12,456
Last push
today
Created
2024-03-13
Open issues
1,167
Website
openhands.dev
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Quick start

$ git clone https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands.git

Hand it to your AI

Read https://ideas.asveas.com/r/OpenHands/OpenHands.md and help me add OpenHands/OpenHands to my project. Explain the setup steps for my stack and show the minimal code to get it working.
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FAQ

What is OpenHands?

OpenHands/OpenHands is an AI coding tool on GitHub: 🙌 OpenHands: AI-Driven Development The self-hosted developer control center for coding agents and automations.

When should I use OpenHands?

Reach for OpenHands when you want an AI to write, refactor or scaffold code in your editor or terminal — it's written in TypeScript and fits stacks tagged ai-agents, ai, chatgpt, claude-ai.

What are the best alternatives to OpenHands?

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Is OpenHands actively maintained?

OpenHands/OpenHands looks very actively maintained: the last push was today (2026-11-11), with 93,238 stars and 1,167 open issues.

What license does OpenHands use?

OpenHands/OpenHands is published under the MIT license. Check the repository's LICENSE file before commercial use.