OpenHands

by NousResearch

OpenHands is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by NousResearch in hermes-agent.

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Install OpenHands

Copy OpenHands into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/tree/main/optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/openhands ~/.claude/skills/openhands

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: optional-skills/autonomous-ai-agents/openhands/SKILL.md in NousResearch/hermes-agent
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/openhands
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What OpenHands does

OpenHands delegates coding tasks to the OpenHands CLI in headless mode. Use it when a user wants a coding agent that can run on any LiteLLM-supported provider, not just a single vendor.

OpenHands is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. OpenHands comes from a repository tagged ai, ai-agent, ai-agents, anthropic and chatgpt.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

OpenHands CLI

Delegate coding tasks to the OpenHands CLI via the terminal tool. OpenHands is model-agnostic: any LiteLLM-supported provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Ollama, vLLM, etc.).

This skill is the headless-mode wrapper for batch / one-shot delegation. The interactive textual UI is not used from Hermes.

When to Use

User wants a coding task delegated to OpenHands specifically.
User wants a coding agent that can run on a non-Anthropic / non-OpenAI provider (DeepSeek, Qwen, Ollama, vLLM, Nous, etc.) — sibling skills claude-code and codex are tied to one vendor.
Multi-step file edits + shell commands inside a workspace.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about OpenHands

What else does NousResearch publish alongside OpenHands?
OpenHands is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from NousResearch/hermes-agent, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include 1-3-1 Communication Rule, Antigravity CLI and Article Illustrator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way OpenHands does, and is maintained by NousResearch in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the NousResearch/hermes-agent page.
How does OpenHands compare to other AI Engineering skills?
OpenHands ranks #18 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of OpenHands against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.