OpenHands, the open platform for cloud coding agents, today launched the OpenHands Agent Control Plane: a new operational layer for managing the sprawl of AI agents deployed across modern enterprises. Instead of treating agents as one-off tools operating independently, the Agent Control Plane provides a centralized, networked system for managing AI-driven engineering work at scale with safety, visibility, and measurable ROI.
The Agent Control Plane provides the infrastructure to orchestrate, secure, observe, and optimize agent fleets across an enterprise. “Running a single agent is straightforward; running hundreds across an organization requires a system,” said Robert Brennan, CEO and Co-Founder of OpenHands. “We’re giving enterprises that system with the new OpenHands Agent Control Plane.”
AI agents need to move beyond single-developer experiments into broader organizational use that leverage multi-agent workflows at scale. However, according to a report from McKinsey, while over 60% of organizations are experimenting with AI agents, only a small percentage have successfully deployed them in production. Without centralized control, teams face runaway permissions, fragmented workflows, and no reliable audit trail.
The Agent Control Plane treats agents as a coordinated system where platform teams can define workflows that run in parallel across repositories and teams with consistent scheduling, retries, and state management. Best security practices also come out-of-the-box, enforcing least‑privilege policies that scope access to secrets, networks, and external systems so agents never inherit broad developer permissions.
All agent activity executes in isolated sandboxes that contain code execution, file access, and external calls while making actions observable and reproducible; and every action is logged and traceable to its workflow for debugging, compliance, and security. Usage and spend are tracked at the workflow level, giving clear visibility for cost attribution, optimization, and governance.
OpenHands has quickly become one of the most adopted projects in the developer-AI ecosystem, earning more than 70,000 GitHub stars, 9,000 forks, 7 million downloads, and contributions from hundreds of developers worldwide. Engineers at organizations such as AMD, Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix, TikTok, NVIDIA, Mastercard, and VMWare have cloned or forked the repository to use and extend the platform.
About OpenHands
OpenHands is an open-source platform for building and running autonomous AI coding agents, with the control layer needed to run them safely at scale. The mission is to make agent-based software development accessible, transparent, and controllable by default. That starts in the open. The core framework is open source, giving developers and platform teams full visibility into how agents execute work and interact with their systems. The project has over 70,000 GitHub stars, millions of downloads, and contributions from hundreds of developers. It is used by engineers at large enterprises and fast-growing startups alike. The long-term vision is to become the full stack AI coding agent platform for software engineering. Not just helping developers write code, but running meaningful parts of the software lifecycle.
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