OpenHands

Dockerized software-engineering agent. The **harness** is the bash/editor/browser toolset with micro-agents and event-stream session bridging; Docker is the sandbox. Main OSS choice for teams self-hosting autonomous repo work.

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Category: Coding agent products (IDEs, CLIs, full suites)

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