Introducing the OpenHands CLI, a new coding CLI that: - Has top accuracy (similar to Claude Code) - Is completely open source, MIT licensed - Is model agnostic, use an API or bring your own - Is simple to install and run `pip install openhands-ai` and `openhands` (no Docker!)

OpenHands has long been one of the best coding agents overall, and especially top open source agents. But running it required a docker sandbox and GUI, and many of our users asked for a more light-weight alternative. This CLI solves this.

In implementing this, we added a few pieces of functionality: 1. slash commands to make it easy to change settings 2. a confirmation mode to allow you to check commands before you run them

We're enjoying using the CLI when logged in to servers, or just to spin up a session in a low-friction way. Hope that you like it too! Here is: - A blog with more details: - Docs: - Slack for support:

This is awesome, it's good to have further open source options. Is there any local model that works well enough for minor edits? I remember devstral being specifically trained to work with open hands. does that include this cli?

Yes, definitely! You can set up a server for devstral and point the CLI at it:

uv ftw

Yes, we've heard that this works too! uvx --python 3.12 --from openhands-ai openhands

Man alive you guys rule. Terrific work.

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Can you please make it a Mac binary with all deps baked in? The pip thing is not the right way to install system level tools like coding agent!

That's a good point! We can open an issue on the github, and would certainly welcome contributions.