OpenHands Trends at 74K Stars — AI-Driven Development Platform Backed by Full Linux Sandbox

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OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) continues to gain traction as an open-source AI-driven development platform where agents plan, write, and execute code in a sandboxed Linux environment. At 74,222 stars, it's one of the top-starred autonomous coding agent repos on GitHub. The project's architecture — giving AI agents a full OS-level sandbox rather than just code completion — anticipated the approach Google just validated with Managed Agents at I/O 2026.