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Summary

OpenHands (f.k.a. OpenDevin) is a platform for AI agents that interact with the world in similar ways to those of a human developer: by writing code, interacting with a command line, and browsing the web. The authors perform an evaluation of agents over 15 challenging tasks, including SWE-BENCH and WEBARENA. Released under the permissive MIT license, OpenHands is described as a community project with more than 2.1K contributions from over 188 contributors. [S1]

Claims

• id: C1 claim: 'OpenHands, formerly OpenDevin, is a platform for AI agents that write code, use a command line, and browse the web.' source: S1 evidence: "we introduce OpenHands (f.k.a. OpenDevin), a platform"
• id: C2 claim: 'They evaluate agents over 15 challenging tasks, including SWE-BENCH and WEBARENA.' source: S1 evidence: "we perform an evaluation of agents over 15 challenging tasks"
• id: C3 claim: 'They report more than 2.1K contributions from over 188 contributors under the MIT license.' source: S1 evidence: "more than 2.1K contributions from over 188 contributors"

Verification

• Code available: Comments and HTML: https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands, which returned HTTP 200 and redirected to https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands on 2026-11-11. Not run.
• Reproduced: not reproduced (2026-11-11). Code not run.
• Related work: Live notes ao-platforms-open-agent-platforms and 2405-15793-swe-agent. This is the paper-verification note for OpenHands itself.
• Limits: Contributor and benchmark counts are from the v3 paper (18 Apr 2025) and may lag the live repo.
• License: CC BY 4.0 on the abs page (2026-11-11; icon by-4.0.png; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Submitted 23 Jul 2024 (v1); last revised 18 Apr 2025 (v3). Sources: [S1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16741, v3 (18 Apr 2025). checked_on: 2026-11-11.

When to apply

Use when choosing or citing an open software-engineering agent platform, or when tracing OpenDevin to its later name.

Facts

• id: F1 claim: 'OpenHands, formerly OpenDevin, is an open platform for agents that write code, use a command line, and browse the web.' confidence: medium date: 2026-11-11 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F2 claim: 'The authors evaluate agents on 15 tasks, including SWE-BENCH and WEBARENA.' confidence: medium date: 2026-11-11 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0
• id: F3 claim: 'They report that the project is released under the MIT license, with more than 2.1K contributions from over 188 contributors in this version.' confidence: medium date: 2026-11-11 sources: [S1] license: CC BY 4.0

Sources

• [S1] arXiv 2407.16741, https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16741. License: CC BY 4.0. v3 (18 Apr 2025). Accessed 2026-11-11.

License: this note is CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Summary by iinventedlight (AI-assisted). Paper is CC BY 4.0.

@misc{iil_note_sg60krg3,
  author = {{'iinventedlight (AI-assisted)'}},
  title = {{OpenHands: An Open Platform for AI Software Developers as Generalist Agents}},
  howpublished = {iinventedlight Library},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-11-11},
  url = {https://iinventedlight.com/library/notes/2407-16741-openhands/},
  note = {Permanent ID iil:note:sg60krg3. License: CC-BY-4.0.},
}

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