OpenHands, founded in 2024, develops an open-source platform for building and running AI coding agents. The platform provides the interface, automations, and control layer needed to scale from a single local agent to a system running across an entire organization. Its core product, the OpenHands Platform, enables agents to plan, write, test, and apply changes across codebases, allowing teams to complete complex engineering tasks end-to-end.
The project has achieved significant adoption within the software engineering community. It has garnered over 81,000 GitHub stars, with contributions from more than 500 open-source developers, and has been downloaded over 9 million times. The platform is trusted by engineers at major companies.
OpenHands operates in the technical domains of AI coding agents, autonomous agents, and software engineering automation. The company's development model is community-driven and open-source focused.
