OpenHands
OpenHands develops an open-source platform for building and running AI coding agents. · Developer tools
How they use Tavily
OpenHands uses Tavily for web search in its coding agents. Its documentation identifies Tavily as the default search engine in OpenHands Cloud. When an agent needs external information, queries go through Tavily’s API and MCP server. Search results enter the agent’s context. Co-founder Graham Neubig says Tavily has been OpenHands’ default search engine for over a year. Self-hosted users can configure their Tavily key in Settings > LLM or through search_api_key in the configuration file for headless and CLI use.
OpenHands also reported adding Tavily research tools to OpenHands-Versa alongside multimodal browsing and file access. The combined agent achieved reported leading results on five of eight benchmarks. Separately, Nebius names OpenHands as a coding-agent partner in its AI Builder Program.
OpenHands announced an enterprise integration update that proxies Tavily MCP connections through the app server for security controls and monitoring.
Sources
3 sourcesSearch Engine Setup
14 Oct 2026 · OpenHands · Web page
OpenHands documents Tavily as the default search engine in OpenHands Cloud. Agent queries reach Tavily’s API through its MCP server, and results enter the agent’s context. Users configuring search can enter their Tavily key in Settings > LLM or set search_api_key in a configuration file for headless and CLI use. Without a configured key, agent search is unavailable.
Open original sourceOpenHands releases versatile agent with SOTA performance
14 Oct 2026 · LinkedIn · Web page
OpenHands says it added Tavily research tools to OpenHands-Versa alongside multimodal browsing and file access. It reports leading performance on five of eight benchmarks for the combined agent and availability in OpenHands Cloud and version 0.41.0 or higher.
Open original sourceCompany context
openhands.devOpenHands develops an open-source platform for building and running AI coding agents, serving individual developers, engineering teams, and enterprise platform and security teams. Its products include Agent Canvas for managing parallel agents, OpenHands Cloud for hosted execution, an SDK for building agents, and Agent Control Plane for organizational governance. Teams use the platform to review pull requests, fix CI failures, update dependencies, investigate issues, and maintain documentation. It supports different agents and models, with local, cloud, and enterprise VPC deployment options.
Recent updates
10 updatesOpenHands adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL support
OpenHands announced support for NVIDIA’s new multimodal model as a launch partner. The model adds image, document and video understanding to software engineering agents, supporting tasks such as screenshot-based bug investigation and document review.
OpenHandsOpenHands adds DigitalOcean-hosted agents to Agent Canvas
OpenHands v1.27.0 lets developers create and manage DigitalOcean-hosted coding agents directly from Agent Canvas. The integration extends existing DigitalOcean inference support to managed agent execution.
OpenHandsOpenHands introduces isolated Docker conversation runtimes
OpenHands announced dedicated Docker runtimes that give each Agent Canvas conversation its own isolated container. Its September releases also added scoped Agent Profiles for automations and persistent conversations for development workflows.
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