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OpenHands

Self-hosted hub for running OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents, plus scheduled automations.

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Once called OpenDevin, OpenHands has grown into a family of repositories, and this main one now holds Agent Canvas, a self-hosted dashboard for running coding agents and scheduled jobs. In its web UI you open conversations where an agent edits files, runs shell commands, and works through tasks inside your projects, using the bundled open source OpenHands agent or Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and other agents that speak the Agent Client Protocol. One Canvas can attach to several Agent Servers, the REST backend from the companion Python SDK, so personal agents on a laptop and shared review bots on a cloud VM appear side by side. Automations fire on a schedule or a webhook and can post into Slack, GitHub, Linear, or Notion. Install the agent-canvas package from npm on Node.js 24 with uv, or pull the Docker image; per-conversation Docker sandboxes are safer, since plain local mode gives the agent your entire filesystem. You supply your own LLM key from any provider. The code is MIT, as is the SDK, while OpenHands Cloud and Enterprise are optional paid hosting. Worth a look for teams wanting agents on machines they control.

Should you use OpenHands?

Pick it when

Pick it when you want to build or run autonomous agents from your own code: the Python SDK defines agents programmatically, runs them locally or scales out to many cloud runs, and a CLI and local GUI cover interactive work.

Look elsewhere when

Skip it if you only want an interactive helper in your editor or terminal: it rates harder to set up than Cline or OpenCode, and its strength is programmatic, autonomous runs rather than quick inline edits.

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Details

Price
Free
Platform
Local/Desktop
Difficulty
Intermediate (3/5)
License
MIT
Added
Apr 3, 2026

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