OpenHands
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What is OpenHands?
An open-source framework and SDK designed for building, running, and scaling secure, model-agnostic autonomous coding agents for enterprise environments.
OpenHands provides the underlying architecture to deploy agents that can plan, write, and apply changes across very large codebases. It executes these agents inside secure, isolated Docker environments. Because it is an SDK, organizations use OpenHands to build custom internal developer platforms or automate massive fleet-wide code refactors.
How it relates to Orbit
Orbit runs coding agents on your own machines and records every run in the project’s completion log. See Agent Sessions & Harnesses for details.
When you would use it
You use OpenHands when you need to build and scale your own autonomous AI coding infrastructure, prioritizing strict enterprise security, sandboxing, and the freedom to use any LLM.
Common operations
- Orchestrating a fleet of agents to update dependencies across hundreds of enterprise microservices.
- Integrating a custom coding agent securely into a corporate CI/CD pipeline.
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