🙌 OpenHands — Deep Dive & Build-Your-Own Guide 📘
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A practical, technical walkthrough of how OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin) actually works, what makes it highly autonomous, and how you can build a similar agent from first principles. Written April 2026. Based on the V1 SDK paper (arXi 2511.03690), the original OpenDevin paper (arXi 2407.16741), the OpenHands docs, and the source of All-Hands-AI/OpenHands and OpenHands/software-agent-sdk. 💡 TL;DR - what OpenHands is, in one paragraph 1. 🧠 The mental model - Agent / Conversation / Workspace / Event Stream 2. ⚙️ The agent loop - the canonical 30 lines 3.