OpenHands Upgrade Rivals OpenAI & Google
OpenHands V1: Major open-source agent framework upgrade with 64K GitHub stars. Features SDK overhaul, enhanced safety, and multi-LLM routing.
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OpenHands development team has just released a new paper, officially announcing that the agent component within the widely popular software development agent framework OpenHands (with over 64,000 GitHub stars) has completed an architectural refactoring, now called the OpenHands Software Agent SDK.
This redesign represents a massive improvement, marking OpenHands’ evolution from V0 to V1. The improvements include:
Flexibility: They designed a clean interface that requires only a few lines of code to implement an agent by default, yet is easily extensible into a fully-featured complex agent with custom tools, memory management, and other capabilities.
Safety and Reliability: It provides seamless local-to-remote execution portability and integrated REST/WebSocket services.
Human User Interaction: It can directly connect to various interfaces such as visual workspaces (VS Code, VNC, browser), command-line interfaces, and APIs.
Unique Integration: Compared to existing SDKs from OpenAI, Claude, and Google, OpenHands uniquely integrates native sandboxed execution, lifecycle control, model-agnostic multi-LLM routing, and built-in security analysis.
The team states: “These elements enable the OpenHands Software Agent SDK to provide a practical foundation for prototyping, unlocking new custom applications, and reliably deploying agents at scale.”