Robert Brennan
@rbren_dev
CEO and co-founder of OpenHands
299 Following 759 Followers
"openhands...the autonomous coding agent has now doubled for four straight months"
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The August ClickPy report is out: overall downloads cooled over summer time, PyPI recorded 176.6B downloads in August 2026, down 4.5% from July.
But MCP and AI-agent tooling are still accelerating. 🤖
Notable packages this month:
🔌 mcp-types: 11.7M → 61.3M (+425%), MCP tooling just became a 60M-download dependency
☁️ google-cloud-parametermanager: 862K → 4.82M (+459%), @googlecloud, a 5.6x jump for Google Cloud’s Parameter Manager client
🎨 skia-python: 167K → 4.02M (+2,312%), Python bindings for Google’s graphics engine suddenly went 24x
🤝 openhands: 1.11M → 2.52M (+128%), @OpenHandsDev, the autonomous coding agent has now doubled for four straight months
📈 metricflow: 4.31M → 8.11M (+88%), @dbt_labs, semantic-layer adoption keeps compounding
Full report here:
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maybe i missed it, but i don't get why no one is talking about openhands. its very good!
Really enjoyed this conversation w/ Laura at Notable!
A developer prompting their way through a Jira ticket gets about 20 to 30% faster, says @rbren_dev. So that's why he says the real gains sit somewhere else.
On the new episode of First Commit, Laura Hamilton sits down with the co-founder and CEO of @OpenHandsDev, the open source project that became one of the most starred AI coding agent repos on GitHub.
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Super happy to see Nemotron continuing to evolve. OSS models are becoming the norm!
We’re proud to be an @NVIDIAAI launch partner and excited to support NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning! ⚡
Always-on agents need fast, customizable models, but they also need infrastructure: harnesses, runtimes, sandboxes, integrations, policies, audit trails, and deployment flexibility. That’s where OpenHands comes in.
Learn how to use Nemotron 3.5 Lightning & OpenHands:
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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 :)
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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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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?
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:
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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.
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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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Come hang with us next week in NYC!
Join us on May 26 in NYC for a panel discussion on what it really takes to deploy agents safely and reliably at enterprise scale.
We'll be joined by an incredible group of leaders and experts from @nvidia, @vercel, @AMD, and @alumniventures. You can expect practical insights, candid discussion, and networking with builders shaping the next generation of enterprise AI.
Space is limited so reserve your spot, today! 👇
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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
#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:
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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Guys will do anything but use cloud agents
