89,500 stars · MIT, read from /blob/main/LICENSE on 2026-09-29; plain, copyright 2025 OpenHands contributors, no added conditions and no paid key · v1.24.0 (2026-09-25), read from /releases/latest. ungh's pushedAt of 2026-09-20 on the OLD name is stale, because it predates that release. · Track this in Scout
A self-hosted control screen that runs several coding assistants and shows what each one is doing.
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What it is
A large open-source project, at 89,500 stars, that began as a single coding agent and has become a console for several. Its own README now describes the product as Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control centre that can drive OpenHands, Claude Code, Codex and Gemini, locally or on a remote machine.
What it is good for. Someone who already uses one coding assistant from a terminal and wants a screen instead: a list of running jobs, the files each one touched, and the ability to start another without opening a new window. It also suits anyone who wants those jobs to run inside a container rather than directly on the machine they work on.
- MIT licensed, read from the licence file and completely unmodified, so there is no paid key and no restriction on commercial use.
- It runs several different assistants, so you are not tied to one vendor's tool.
- Active: version 1.24.0 was published on 25 September 2026, four days before this edition.
- The repository changed owner and the product changed shape, and the names no longer line up. The command you install is
@openhands/agent-canvas, notopenhands, and the container image isghcr.io/openhands/agent-canvas. A search for the repository name does not find the package. - 452 open issues and 429 open pull requests. That is a lot of unfinished business for one project, and it tells you the pace of change is high.
- It runs commands and edits files. Without the container option it is doing that directly on the machine you are sitting at, and a mistaken instruction is a real mistake.
anomalyco/opencode196,600 stars, MIT, a coding agent for the terminal; far more popular, but it is the agent itself rather than a console for running several.
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cline/cline67,600 stars, Apache-2.0, an agent available as a library, an editor extension or a command-line assistant; it lives inside an editor rather than giving you a separate screen.
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Aider-AI/aider49,200 stars, Apache-2.0, covered in Edition 25; it commits every change to git as it goes, which is a different and smaller promise.
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npm install -g @openhands/agent-canvas agent-canvas
