Cognition's Devin popularized the idea of the "AI software engineer". OpenHands (which started as OpenDevin) is the open-source answer: a platform where agents write code, run commands, browse the web and open pull requests on their own, starting from an issue.
What is OpenHands?
Given a problem described in a GitHub issue, the agent plans and executes the full fix in a sandboxed environment and submits a pull request. It is one of the strongest open-source projects on autonomous coding benchmarks like SWE-bench.
Key features
- Agents that write code, run the terminal, browse the web and call APIs
- End-to-end issue-to-pull-request flow
- Sandboxed runtime (Docker) for safe execution
- Runs locally or as a cloud platform, maintained by All Hands AI
- Around 70k stars and hundreds of contributors
How Reche uses it
Autonomous agents are powerful, but running them without review is the fastest path to technical debt. RecheOS uses this kind of automation with quality gates, tests and human review on every delivery. Reche implements these flows in your product with the control production demands.