OpenHands Blog

July 28, 2026

Coding Agents and Technical Debt

Say you forked the OpenHands app twelve months ago and never merged from upstream. You would now be 2,600 merged PRs behind, including 866 bug fixes you do not have.

July 24, 2026

Open Models Are Closing the Coding Gap

Kimi K3 and Thinking Machines' Inkling shipped open weights this week. What self-hosting a frontier-class coding model buys you on your own infrastructure, and what it costs.

July 22, 2026

Agent Sandboxing: What OpenAI got wrong with the HuggingFace hack

OpenAI accidentally hacked HuggingFace during a security exercise. Learn what they got wrong, and how you can avoid the same mistakes.

July 7, 2026

It Told Me No: How Quint Helped Us Fix a Long-Standing Race Condition

A noisy "multiple valid pods" alert plagued our on-call rotation for years, caused by a race condition in the Runtime API that spun up duplicate Kubernetes pods. This post shows how we diagnosed it, why our first two fixes fell short, and how Quint — a formal specification tool — predicted the incomplete fix and gave us the confidence to finally ship a real one.

June 22, 2026

The Verification Stack

Agents made generating code cheap. The real bottleneck is now verification: checking that a change is correct, follows repo conventions, and is something your team can trust, review, and merge. This post introduces the full verification stack — a layered set of automated verifiers that catch different mistakes at different stages, so coding agents fail fast and humans only spend time on changes worth merging.

June 18, 2026

Controlling any Coding Agent with the OpenHands Agent Canvas and SDK

OpenHands now supports the Agent Client Protocol in Agent Canvas and the OpenHands Software Agent SDK, making it possible to use Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenHands, or other agents on arbitrary servers of the cloud.