CEO and co-founder of OpenHands https://xitter.cf/t.co/rIKNrff4dO

Boston
Joined November 2015
Robert Brennan retweeted
OpenHands now integrates with @DigitalOcean Managed Agents! 🌊 Run AI coding agents in isolated cloud environments, pause and resume sessions, and manage everything from Agent Canvas. Use DigitalOcean for agent execution, model inference, or both. More flexibility in where agents run and which models power them. Read more about the integration and how to get started: hubs.la/Q04B3Hbl0
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Agentic development isn’t one task for one agent. It’s a system: triage the issue, write the code, run it safely, review the PR, and keep the work moving when feedback comes in. That’s where we focused in September across eight Agent Canvas releases: ⚙️ More powerful automations that carry context from issue → development → PR review 🎛️ Agent Profiles with scoped tools and credentials, so each agent can be configured for the job it needs to do 🐳 Isolated Docker runtimes that give each conversation its own execution environment We also made Apps easier to build and share, alongside dozens of improvements across the Agent Canvas workspace. Read the full September product update: hubs.la/Q04zv2nW0
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"If you commit to one particular lab, there's a good chance you're going to be left behind." @OpenHandsDev CEO @rbren_dev on choice and owning your intelligence. Hear more from him at the Open Intelligence Summit, Oct 13 in SF: do.co/4ArVTlL
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90K GitHub stars ⭐ More than a number, it’s a reflection of the community building OpenHands alongside us. Every contribution, PR, issue, experiment, and piece of feedback makes the project better. Thank you to everyone building with us in the open!
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Today we’re launching micro1’s PII transformation model, flow-transform 1.0, delivering frontier-level performance across detection, identity synthesis, and transformation of personally identifiable information. On PrivacyBench, our model reaches 96.0% F1, outperforming every detection baseline we tested, including Tonic Textual, Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Microsoft Presidio, Haiku 4.5 and GLiNER2. Some of the most valuable training data for frontier AI models lives inside fully functioning companies. It captures years of real work across decisions, communications, tools, handoffs, exceptions and the relationships connecting them. The problem is that this data is also full of PII. Traditional redaction makes the data safe, but it also destroys the very workflows and relationships frontier models need to learn from. flow-transform 1.0 solves this by turning enterprise operational data into high-fidelity training data for frontier models by replacing real-world identities without flattening the reality the data captures.
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Excited to be welcoming @rbren_dev, @ivanburazin, @alxnails, and Leix Xu to the Open Intelligence Summit. Open intelligence is more than just open weights, it's providing builders with choice and ownership at every layer of the stack, agents to infra. Join us!
The first speakers for Open Intelligence Summit are live. If you're building an AI-native company, the agenda covers the decisions in front of you: who owns your data, what inference costs you, how your agents run, and what your users experience. Oct 13, SF. Request a seat: do.co/4ArVTlL
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We now run OpenHands in our own cloud. The agent implements a task, reviews its pull request, and repeats review and fixes before handing it to a human. We still decide whether to merge. hajek.no/posts/2026/shared-a…
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maybe i missed it, but i don't get why no one is talking about openhands. its very good!
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OpenAI's agent accidentally hacked into another company's web site, despite protective measures. What are you doing to prevent agents from hacking into your production infrastructure? Or do you --dangerously-skip-permissions? 🧵👇
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Agent Canvas 1.3.0 + 1.4.0 updates this week focus on portability and operability Export automations, export conversations, navigate local workspaces more cleanly, and deploy self-hosted Canvas with Helm. Thanks: @OpenHandsDev
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We've found this sort of "sidekick" architecture to be very effective at cutting LLM spend because it allows you to do context control and not spend expensive tokens on simple tasks. Here's a 200-line example of how to do it in the OpenHands SDK :) gist.github.com/neubig/412ab…
Replying to @cognition
Devin Fusion uses a hybrid-model harness built around two ideas: First, a “sidekick” agent: a smaller agent runs in parallel with the frontier agent. The frontier agent delegates work, monitors progress, and keeps ownership of planning, ambiguity, and final review. This lets Fusion stay intelligent while avoiding unnecessary frontier-model spend.
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The longer the task, the more orchestration carries it. The OpenHands SDK just added three primitives for building robust, long-horizon agent workflows, usable by the model and by you: Thanks to: @gneubig @juanontech Vasco Alona @OpenHandsDev
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Robert Brennan retweeted
I'd like to create a tutorial on how you can make something similar to Claude Tag but entirely open source. What are the main features people like about it so I can be sure to add them?
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We loved chatting w/ @ashimmy on #TechstrongTV 📺 Our CEO & Co-Founder @rbren_dev sat down to discuss the importance of #opensource, where we draw the line in terms of monetization, and the overall vision for the OpenHands platform & community ⭐ Full interview here: techstrong.tv/videos/intervi…
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Our civilization is based on science and technology. Its future hinges on our ability to understand, independently verify, and access the technology without the decree of a select few. malhotra5.github.io/blog/con…
mythos will be bad ON PURPOSE on ai "frontier llm research" tasks, this is very very sad for the research community also the fact that this is un purpose not visible to the user is crazy
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Robert Brennan retweeted
Hermes Agent now can orchestrate the @OpenHandsDev agents with a new optional skill! `hermes update` then do `hermes skills install official/autonomous-ai-agents/openhands` Reminder: You can already do this for claude code, codex, opencode, and hermes itself, you can force load the skill with `/ ` or just ask hermes to use them, and it should find them. These ones are all built-in skills :)
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The most extensive independent benchmark of LLMs for software engineering just got a big update! - How does GPT-5.5 compare to Opus 4.7? - Are open models catching up, and in what areas? - How do cost and performance stack up?
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#AIAgents are changing #softwaredevelopment fast — but are you getting the most out of them? @VMblog sat down with @OpenHandsDev CEO Robert Brennan to talk: ✅ The new Agentic Control Plane ✅ Running AI agents at scale ✅ Open source vs. enterprise ✅ The future of the developer role youtube.com/watch?v=NA-usu66… #DevTools #OpenSource
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Great crowd @_odsc for my talk on Harness Engineering! If you want the slides or exercises, check out my github: github.com/rajshah4/harness-…
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Reading this made me appreciate one subtle upside of cloud agents a bit more. The credential setup can be annoying, but it’s also a useful bit of friction. A local agent may accidentally inherit all the random authority sitting on your laptop: env vars, cloud CLIs, ~/.aws, ~/.ssh, forgotten tokens, etc. With a cloud agent, you’re usually much more deliberate about what credentials it gets.
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