{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "axlr", "name": "AXLR", "vendor": "Underpass AI", "vendorUrl": "https://axlr.underpassai.com", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Open-source Go execution engine for agentic work from Underpass AI. A console with work modes and approval cards, an mTLS HTTP, gRPC and MCP service, a JSON worker and a Go library, with KMP memory and MADE procedures over MCP.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/axlr.json", "dns": "axlr.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR", "license": "Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "go", "name": "github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/underpass-ai/axlr" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/underpass-ai/charts/axlr" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The console and the one-command `axlr-tui --exec` need a model route, an OpenRouter key (`OPENROUTER_API_KEY` or `credentials.json`, mode 0600), a local OpenAI-compatible server, or an Anthropic Messages or OpenAI Responses key in a `local_models` entry; the JSON worker and the library tests need no model account. The service, `axlr-serve`, requires TLS 1.3 and a client certificate signed by its CA whose SHA-256 fingerprint is mapped in a private principals file to a principal and the roles `session_client`, `approver`, `tool_operator` and `admin`; an unmapped certificate is forbidden, a session belongs to the principal that created it, and authentication never approves a tool by itself. MCP at `/mcp` is stateless and authenticated per request by the same certificate; gRPC uses the TLS peer certificate.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source under Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy from Underpass AI. You pay your model provider (OpenRouter reports a cost per request, which the console's `/usage` and `max_session_usd` track) or run a local server at no charge; TypeSafe's Jev judge is optional and needs its own key. No hosted AXLR exists (checked 2026-11-01).", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the repository, the OpenAPI file or the two sites (checked 2026-11-01). Nothing is sold.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://axlr.underpassai.com/docs/", "openapi": "https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR/blob/main/api/openapi/axlr-v1.yaml", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "free", "no-card", "go", "cli", "mcp-client", "openapi", "grpc", "docker", "helm", "sandbox", "approvals", "pre-1.0", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-25", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 168, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1253, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 70, "schema": 80, "security": 62, "transparency": 55 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A pre-1.0 Go harness with an unusually complete service contract, mutual TLS with principal roles, required idempotency keys, a policy, budget and sandbox per execution, and a result object a program can read. The console's defaults after setup are autonomy on and no sandbox, the project has one maintainer and no outside users yet, and releases carry no notes.", "bestFor": "A program or bot that needs one governed execution at a time, with a policy, a budget, a sandbox profile and correlation ids it sets itself and a result object it reads back, on a machine it controls, with the model on OpenRouter, a local server or a native Anthropic or OpenAI key.", "strengths": [ "mTLS HTTP, gRPC and MCP service with four principal roles, `Idempotency-Key` required on turns, approvals and direct calls, and `expected_revision` on decisions", "A policy (observe, propose, act-with-approval, act-within-policy), a budget in seconds, requests, tool calls and dollars, and a bubblewrap or container sandbox with an enforced egress allow list, each per execution", "`axlr-tui --exec --json` runs one task headless and ends with a result object; exit 0 done, 3 waiting for a decision, 1 error", "OpenRouter, local OpenAI-compatible servers (llama.cpp, vLLM, Ollama, LM Studio), and the Anthropic Messages and OpenAI Responses APIs spoken directly", "21 releases in October 2026 from a workflow that tests on six native runners and refuses to republish different bytes, with a `.sha256` beside every archive" ], "weaknesses": [ "The setup assistant turns autonomy on and leaves the exec sandbox off, so after setup the model's commands run with the person's rights, bar the destructive list", "Pre-1.0 with one maintainer, 0 stars and 10 open issues, all the founder's own trackers; releases have empty notes and there is no changelog", "The service needs KMP and MADE as remote gRPC services, a client CA and a principals file before a first session, and has no work modes, plugins or forged-tool setting yet", "No SECURITY.md, security.txt, advisories or disclosure route; the legal entity is not yet incorporated and no terms or privacy policy exist", "No llms.txt, and the Go library is the only SDK; the catalog registry answers every non-AXLR client with 403" ], "agentNotes": [ "Before the first prompt, set `approvals.autonomous` to false or run with `--approve none`, and turn `exec_sandbox.mode` to `auto` or `required` on Linux; after setup both default the other way", "Drive a run with `axlr-tui --exec --json --policy \u003cfile\u003e --budget \u003cfile\u003e --sandbox \u003cfile\u003e` and read only the last `result` line; exit 3 means a call waits for `--decide approve|deny` with `--session \u003cid\u003e`", "On the service, send `Idempotency-Key` (16 to 128 safe ASCII characters) on every turn, approval and direct call, and pass the session's `expected_revision`; a reused key with a different body answers 409", "A local model must return native tool calls (llama.cpp with `--jinja`, vLLM with `--enable-auto-tool-choice`); set `context_tokens` on the entry and `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH` for Ollama", "Leave `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` unset unless you want the setup assistant to switch Jev on, which sends requests and final answers to TypeSafe" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 79, "payments": 60, "reliability": 70, "schema": 80, "security": 62, "transparency": 68 }, "provenanceScore": 42, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "V=v0.15.0; OS=linux; ARCH=amd64; curl -fsSLO https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR/releases/download/$V/axlr-$V-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz{,.sha256} \u0026\u0026 sha256sum -c axlr-$V-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz.sha256 \u0026\u0026 tar xzf axlr-$V-$OS-$ARCH.tar.gz -C ~/.local/bin axlr axlr-tui axlr-serve # or build from source with Go 1.26", "headless": { "command": "axlr-tui --root \"$PWD\" --exec \"$TASK\" --json --approve none --policy policy.json --budget budget.json --sandbox sandbox.json", "decide": "axlr-tui --session \u003cid\u003e --decide approve --json", "env": { "OPENROUTER_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/axlr" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "", "domain": "underpassai.com", "domainRegistered": "2025-08-10", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/underpass-ai/AXLR/releases", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "No legal entity exists yet. underpassai.com's footer says Underpass AI is a startup project created by Tirso García Ibáñez and preparing incorporation as a Spanish limited liability company, that the technical assets are founder-owned and intended to be assigned to the company after incorporation, and that licence terms are in each repository's LICENSE and NOTICE. The NOTICE names Tirso García Ibáñez as copyright holder. Recorded as absent with that explanation.", "No terms of service or privacy policy on underpassai.com (sitemap lists the home page and one article) or axlr.underpassai.com. For local software the docs' 'Where data goes' and 'Diagnostics and privacy' sections stand in.", "RDAP for underpassai.com gives registration on 2025-08-10 with Route 53 nameservers. The GitHub organisation underpass-ai was created on 2025-08-09, location Spain, 16 public repositories. The AXLR repository was created on 2026-09-29; the first tag and release, v0.1.0, is dated 2026-10-04, which is firstReleased.", "https://underpassai.com/.well-known/security.txt and https://axlr.underpassai.com/.well-known/security.txt answer 404; the repository has no SECURITY.md. No status page (local software). The changelog is the GitHub releases list, whose entries carry no notes.", "robots.txt on underpassai.com and axlr.underpassai.com allow everything. registry.underpassai.com answers every path, robots.txt included, with 403 'forbidden: client is not AXLR', so nothing was read from it after that reply.", "The founder's LinkedIn URL is linked from underpassai.com and was not visited." ], "score": 42 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.json" }, "answer": "AXLR and OpenHands score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 70.6 (BB) and 70.3 (BB). OpenHands leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "openhands", "name": "OpenHands", "vendor": "All Hands AI", "vendorUrl": "https://openhands.dev", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Open-source coding agent with a self-hosted web interface, local and remote execution, and scheduled or webhook-driven automation.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openhands.json", "dns": "openhands.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands", "license": "MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@openhands/agent-canvas" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openhands-sdk" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openhands-agent-server" }, { "registry": "oci", "name": "ghcr.io/openhands/agent-canvas" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Local installs bind to 127.0.0.1 and inject a session key into the page. Public mode (`--public`) needs `LOCAL_BACKEND_API_KEY`, sent as `X-Session-API-Key` on every API call. Model credentials are your own provider keys or an OpenHands LLM key, and OpenHands Cloud has its own sign-in and API keys.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Agent Canvas, the SDK and the Agent Server are free and MIT. Teams is $500 a month for up to 10 users (plus $50 a month a seat), self-hosted, with a 30-day trial and a cap of 5,000 sessions a month. Enterprise is priced by sales. The OpenHands LLM provider bills model calls at provider rates with no markup per the docs, and two DeepSeek models are free on app.all-hands.dev.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the source (checked 2026-10-01).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 89800, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.openhands.dev", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.openhands.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenHands/docs/main/openapi/agent-sdk.json", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "self-hosted", "hosted", "freemium", "python", "typescript", "docker", "openapi", "llms-txt", "telemetry-default-on" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.3, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 174, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1253, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 60, "reliability": 90, "schema": 90, "security": 64, "transparency": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": -7, "negativeNotes": [ "Current behaviour, re-checked 2026-11-01. Agent Canvas sends a `canvas_install` event with platform, user agent, referrer and origin to PostHog through OpenHands' proxy at z.openhands.dev on first use, \"regardless of consent\", and the consent banner's box is ticked by default. The source comment says the proxy is there to get past ad blockers, and no user-facing doc mentions the early event. Undisclosed telemetry, -3. https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/blob/main/src/services/telemetry.ts", "2026-03-23. GHSA-7h8w-hj9j-8rjw (CVE-2026-33718, 7.6 in the advisory, 9.9 at NVD), command injection through the `path` parameter of the git diff endpoint let an authenticated user run commands in the agent sandbox. Fixed in 1.5.0 and published, over seven months old, -1. https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/security/advisories/GHSA-7h8w-hj9j-8rjw", "2026-08-06. CVE-2026-19022 (6.3), command injection in `initialize_repo` in the pull request resolver of OpenHands 0.62.0 and earlier, the V0 line the V1 rewrite replaced. No GitHub advisory found, -1. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19022", "2026-10-26. CVE-2026-112346 (CVSS 3.1 9.8, published by VulnCheck). Before SDK 1.52.0 the DockerWorkspace and Apptainer launchers bound the sandbox Agent Server to 0.0.0.0 with no session key, so anyone who could reach the published port could run shell commands as root in the sandbox and read its secrets. Fixed on 3 October (commit 7b66584, \"publish Docker ports on loopback\") and released in 1.52.0 on 5 October. Fixed, inside six months, -2. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-112346" ], "verdict": "A self-hosted coding agent with a typed SDK, an Agent Server API and a Docker container per conversation on request. Agent Canvas still starts with confirmation off on the host's filesystem, sends an install event before asking consent, and a critical SDK sandbox flaw fixed in October was published by a third party.", "bestFor": "Teams that want to self-host a coding agent with a web UI, per-conversation Docker sandboxes and scheduled or webhook automations, or embed the agent through a Python SDK and REST API.", "strengths": [ "A Docker container per conversation with `OH_CONVERSATION_RUNTIME=docker`, each with its own Agent Server", "Typed Python SDK and an Agent Server REST API with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, plus a TypeScript client", "Confirmation policies (always, never, at or above a risk level) with LLM, Invariant and GraySwan risk analysers", "Any model through LiteLLM, local ones included, and MCP over stdio, SSE and streamable HTTP with OAuth", "29 Agent Canvas and 33 SDK releases from 3 August to 28 October 2026, and the SDK kept its stated removal deadline on 28 October" ], "weaknesses": [ "Confirmation mode is off by default in Agent Canvas, and the npm install gives the agent the host's whole filesystem", "One anonymous install event goes to PostHog before the consent prompt, whose opt-in box is pre-ticked", "CVE-2026-112346 (9.8), an unauthenticated sandbox server in SDK workspaces before 1.52.0, was published by VulnCheck with no OpenHands advisory found", "openhands.dev's security.txt expired on 28 October 2026, and the Canvas CHANGELOG.md stops at 1.0.0-alpha.2", "The privacy policy (3 September 2025) allows training on Cloud content and gives no retention period" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `AGENT_CANVAS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` and `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start", "Start Canvas with `OH_CONVERSATION_RUNTIME=docker` or use the Docker image. The npm install runs the agent on the host", "Turn on confirmation mode with a risk threshold. Canvas starts with it off", "Pin openhands-sdk and openhands-workspace at 1.52.0 or later so DockerWorkspace binds to loopback, and set `OH_SESSION_API_KEYS_0` on any reachable Agent Server", "Use the SDK or the Agent Server API for headless runs. The `openhands --headless` CLI is no longer maintained" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 78, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 60, "reliability": 90, "schema": 90, "security": 64, "transparency": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 67, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @openhands/agent-canvas # Node 24+ and uv; or: pip install openhands-sdk openhands-tools", "headless": { "env": { "DO_NOT_TRACK": "1", "LLM_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e", "LLM_MODEL": "\u003cprovider/model\u003e" }, "sdk": "pip install openhands-sdk openhands-tools", "server": "OH_CONVERSATION_RUNTIME=docker AGENT_CANVAS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 agent-canvas --backend-only" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/openhands" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "All Hands AI", "domain": "openhands.dev", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://openhands.dev/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/releases", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "The privacy policy (effective 3 September 2025, re-read on 1 November 2026) names All Hands AI, 24 Oak Street, Unit 2, Cambridge, MA 02139. We found no terms of service link on the pricing or privacy pages.", "openhands.dev/.well-known/security.txt lists security@openhands.dev and a responsible-disclosure policy, and expired on 2026-10-28T17:00Z (re-read on 1 November 2026). The policy page still loads.", "The SDK's LLM proxy still runs on llm-proxy.app.all-hands.dev, the company's older domain, and the free models are served from app.all-hands.dev.", "We didn't check for a status page or the domain's registration date." ], "score": 67 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.json", "live": { "slug": "openhands", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "OpenHands/OpenHands", "version": "v1.34.0", "released": "2026-10-27", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:21:50.802254357Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@openhands/agent-canvas", "version": "1.34.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:21:47.680223299Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openhands-agent-server", "version": "1.59.0", "released": "2026-10-28", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:21:48.914054052Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "openhands-sdk", "version": "1.59.0", "released": "2026-10-28", "seenAt": "2026-11-01T17:21:48.696924049Z" } ], "githubStars": 92424, "npmWeekly": 6244, "pypiWeekly": 607808, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://openhands.dev/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "expired", "expires": "2026-10-28T17:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:42:21.942306016Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.openhands.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T15:14:37.419247848Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "openhands.dev", "registered": "2025-07-23", "source": "https://pubapi.registry.google/rdap/domain/openhands.dev", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:07:01.187961218Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://openhands.dev/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T06:48:54.674400288Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-01T06:48:54.674400288Z", "fingerprint": "1ab6af664825" } ], "github": { "repo": "openhands/openhands", "checkedAt": "2026-10-26T07:52:56.827005754Z", "stars": 91868, "archived": false, "issuesEnabled": true, "pushedAt": "2026-10-26T07:49:10Z", "openIssues": 564, "openPRs": 557, "issuesOpened90d": 1058, "issuesClosed90d": 696, "prsMerged90d": 856, "ci": { "branch": "main", "runs": 50, "success": 36, "failure": 9, "other": 5, "latest": "failure", "latestAt": "2026-10-26T06:05:21Z" }, "advisories": [ { "ghsa": "GHSA-7h8w-hj9j-8rjw", "cve": "CVE-2026-33718", "severity": "high", "published": "2026-03-23T17:51:58Z" } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-01T17:21:50.802254357Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 20, "category": "reliability", "leads": "openhands", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Read as a local package, as claude-code, goose, opencode and openhands were. Release archives for Linux, macOS and Windows on amd64 and arm64 with a `.sha256` beside each, a GHCR image, an OCI Helm chart and source builds with Go 1.26, all stated in the docs; no Homebrew, npm or apt route (20). CI on main runs vet, race tests and a coverage gate above 80 per cent for both modules, with the sandbox tests required under bubblewrap, and the last ten runs on main to 1 November 2026 all passed; the release workflow tests on six native runners (25). 10 open issues, all opened by the founder on 19 and 21 October 2026 as trackers for service work (work modes, plugins, the sandbox setting, cost limits), none from an outside user and none a crash report, 0 open pull requests and about 100 merged; with 0 stars there is nobody else to report, so the handling of outside reports is untested (20). Tags are semver 0.x and the docs date each behaviour change inline (\"until 14 October 2026…\"), but the 21 releases have empty notes, there is no CHANGELOG.md, and the product contract records one retirement (the seven 1.0 skill definitions on 5 October 2026) without a notice period (5). Pre-1.0, which the README calls an evolving project (0). 20+25+20+5+0 = 70.", "b": "Read as a local package. Official npm package @openhands/agent-canvas (Node 24 or later, plus uv), a Docker image on GHCR and openhands-sdk on PyPI (Python 3.12 or later) (20). A CI workflow (ci.yml) runs on main beside desktop, Docker and end-to-end workflows; the runs passed on every load on 1 October, and GitHub's pages refused us on 1 November, so the award rests on that check (25). 456 open issues and 395 open pull requests with priority labels and a high-priority Cloud resume bug (#17664), per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November (18). Dated release notes for every Canvas version and a written SDK rule of at least five minor releases before a public API or REST contract is removed, which the SDK followed on 28 October when it dropped the ACP curated model lists at their stated 1.59.0 deadline, but the Canvas CHANGELOG.md still stops at 1.0.0-alpha.2 (12). Canvas is 1.34.0 and the SDK 1.59.0, and the README's beta badge was removed on 23 October 2026 (commit 4d1c4d1, noted in the 1.33.0 release notes), so the product is no longer labelled beta. Only the Apps extension API keeps a beta label (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 70, "b": 90 } }, { "by": 12, "category": "transparency", "leads": "openhands", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Apache-2.0 with a NOTICE (30). No privacy policy or terms on underpassai.com or axlr.underpassai.com; the docs' 'Where data goes' and 'Diagnostics and privacy' sections say that model requests go to OpenRouter, the local server or the native API, that Jev sends text to TypeSafe only when on, that sessions live under `$XDG_STATE_HOME/axlr`, that payload capture is off by default and redacted when on, and that traces are deleted after 30 days; nothing covers the engine downloads' or the catalog registry's handling of a client's requests (15). No deprecation policy; pre-1.0 changes are dated inline in the docs and the product contract records the 5 October 2026 retirement of the first skill catalogue after the fact (6). No telemetry to disclose, and the docs say in two places what leaves the machine and how to stop payload capture, though no single page says there is no telemetry (17). 30+15+6+17 = 68.", "b": "MIT across Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server (30). The privacy policy (effective 3 September 2025, re-read on 1 November) doesn't separate the open-source stack from the Cloud service, keeps data as long as reasonably necessary, allows training on content from the Services and has no subprocessor list (12). A written SDK deprecation runway of five minor releases, kept on 28 October when the ACP model lists were removed at their 1.59.0 deadline, and the CLI's unmaintained notice in its README without a date on the page (15). The consent prompt calls the data anonymous and the Docker page documents `AGENT_CANVAS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY`, but no user-facing page mentions the install event sent before consent (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "schema", "leads": "openhands", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the service (15 paths, 23 schemas, `mutualTLS` security scheme, `additionalProperties: false` on request bodies), a checked proto for the gRPC service, and the 19 MCP tools built from the same shared schemas (25). No llms.txt on either site (404), and the docs site renders HTML; the Markdown sources are in the repository (5). The product contract tables what each of the four interfaces can and cannot do, the work-mode table states each mode's purpose and tool policy, the transport parity ledger names every verb's arguments and behaviour, and `axlr_tools` tells the model to look for a tool before forging one (15). Typed inputs throughout, `Idempotency-Key` 16 to 128 safe ASCII characters, `expected_revision` a positive integer, policy levels, sandbox profiles and egress values enumerated, budgets as four integers, and the service rejects unknown fields, invalid types and bodies over 4 MiB (14). Examples in every guide, an error shape of `code`, `message` and `request_id`, named codes (`409 idempotency_conflict`, `400 invalid_cursor`, `422 invalid_policy`, `invalid_budget`, `sandbox_unavailable`, `not_ready`, `invalid_id`), a gRPC status mapping, and the worker's five statuses and three exit codes; no single error reference page (14). `/v1` routes and an OpenAPI version of 0.1.0 against a 0.15.0 release, and no changelog beyond the dated notes inside the docs (7). 25+5+15+14+14+7 = 80.", "b": "The Agent Server REST API has an OpenAPI 3.1 spec in the docs repository (40 paths, still labelled 0.1.0), the Cloud API has another (155 paths), SDK models are Pydantic-typed and there's a TypeScript client (25). llms.txt at docs.openhands.dev (551 lines on 1 November), with no CLI, local GUI or V0 pages in it (10). The docs have a when-to-use page and examples of good and bad task instructions. On 23 October the Deprecated Projects group (local GUI, CLI, V0) was taken out of the navigation and links to it reworded towards Agent Canvas, though the pages stay reachable by URL and the SDK architecture page still links the CLI repository (15). Confirmation policies, security analysers and MCP configs are discriminated Pydantic unions with validators (13). SDK examples are checked by a CI workflow and there are troubleshooting pages, but we found no error reference for the Agent Server (12). Dated release notes for each Canvas version in the docs (1.25.0 to 1.34.0 added since 1 October), and release tags (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 80, "b": 90 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "openhands", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "v0.15.0 on 2026-10-25, with commits on main to 2026-11-01 (30). 21 releases between 4 and 25 October 2026 (20). One maintainer (368 of 399 commits, the rest by two agent accounts), 10 open issues that are his own trackers with no comments, about 100 merged pull requests and no outside report to measure a reply against (15). Not in the MCP registry; the Go module and a proto to generate clients from are the only client code, beside the GHCR image and Helm chart (5). Go 1.26 toolchain pinned, release actions pinned by commit SHA, a go-licenses check that the third-party bundle matches the dependency graph, and CI passing on main (9). 30+20+15+5+9 = 79.", "b": "Agent Canvas 1.34.0 on 2026-10-27 and SDK 1.59.0 on 2026-10-28, by the repository tags (30). 29 Canvas releases (1.9.0 on 3 August to 1.34.0) and 33 SDK releases (1.40.1 on 5 August to 1.59.0) in the 90 days from 3 August, not counting the security rebuild tags (20). Issues labelled by priority, but 456 open issues and 395 open pull requests and no visible reply times per the 1 October check; GitHub's pages refused us on 1 November (16). npm, PyPI and GHCR packages current per the 1 October check (the registries didn't answer from our shell on 1 November). The unmaintained `openhands` CLI is gone from the docs navigation and the pricing page but its pages remain (10). CI on main, Dependabot, a security scan and an API-breakage check on the SDK, and security rebuilds of older images (agent-canvas 1.23.0-r3, agent-server 1.49.5-r3, 29 October) (9)." }, "scores": { "a": 79, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 5, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "axlr", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Harness reading of the framework line, scored on what a program driving it has to supply. Six local tools plus the host's bookkeeping tools; work modes and an execution policy hide the tools a run may not use, `axlr_catalog` searches the catalog instead of loading it, forged tools keep the request prefix for the prompt cache, and a context cap of 75,000 prompt tokens opens a successor session (20). `local_read`, `local_search` and `local_list` page with `offset`, `next_offset` and `max_bytes`; `StreamEvents` takes `after`, `max_events` (1 to 256) and `wait_ms`; a budget per execution in seconds, requests, tool calls and dollars; 32 tool calls a turn and `max_session_usd` (20). The `--exec` run ends in one `result` line with a status, the pending call, every call's outcome and the usage, and exits 0, 3 or 1; service errors carry codes an agent can act on; a budget stop says which limit (`budget: requests 20 reached`) and leaves the session resumable (16). `Idempotency-Key` on every turn, approval and direct call with cross-transport replay, `expected_revision` on decisions, `expected_sha256` on worker writes, and an interrupted effectful call left `uncertain` for an operator rather than retried (19). One command runs a task, but the first launch needs an OpenRouter key or a local server, the service needs a CA, a principals file and remote KMP and MADE before a first session, and the only SDK is the Go library (8). 20+20+16+19+8 = 83.", "b": "Harness reading of the framework line, scored on what an agent or pipeline driving it has to supply. The default agent carries three tools (terminal, file editor, task tracker), and `filter_tools_regex` trims MCP tools before they reach the model (23). Stuck detection is on by default and a condenser compacts long histories, but Canvas leaves `max_iterations` unset and we found no cost cap (15). Headless runs go through the SDK, the Agent Server REST API or the Cloud API with typed events, and the old CLI's `--headless` mode is unmaintained (14). Conversations persist and resume, and a Docker conversation keeps its workspace and history when the container is replaced (16). Python SDK and TypeScript client, but the quickstart needs Node 24 and uv, and the defaults skip both confirmation and the sandbox (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 83, "b": 78 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Underpass AI", "b": "All Hands AI", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder", "b": "MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-25", "b": "2026-10-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2025-09-03", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not read yet", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "0 stars", "b": "90k stars", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2.5/5 (2)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "AXLR and OpenHands score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 70.6 (BB) and 70.3 (BB). OpenHands leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, AXLR or OpenHands?" }, { "answer": "Yes. AXLR is open source (Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder). OpenHands is open source (MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service).", "question": "Are AXLR and OpenHands open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 83 against 78" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where OpenHands loses 7 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A program or bot that needs one governed execution at a time, with a policy, a budget, a sandbox profile and correlation ids it sets itself and a result object it reads back, on a machine it controls, with the model on OpenRouter, a local server or a native Anthropic or OpenAI key.", "slug": "axlr", "watchFor": "The setup assistant turns autonomy on and leaves the exec sandbox off, so after setup the model's commands run with the person's rights, bar the destructive list" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 90 against 70", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 80", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 79", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 55" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that want to self-host 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OpenHands leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "axlr": "A pre-1.0 Go harness with an unusually complete service contract, mutual TLS with principal roles, required idempotency keys, a policy, budget and sandbox per execution, and a result object a program can read. The console's defaults after setup are autonomy on and no sandbox, the project has one maintainer and no outside users yet, and releases carry no notes.", "openhands": "A self-hosted coding agent with a typed SDK, an Agent Server API and a Docker container per conversation on request. Agent Canvas still starts with confirmation off on the host's filesystem, sends an install event before asking consent, and a critical SDK sandbox flaw fixed in October was published by a third party." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openhands", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openhands.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openhands.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openhands.min.md" }, "markdown": "AXLR and OpenHands score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 70.6 (BB) and 70.3 (BB). OpenHands leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- AXLR: grade BB, 70.6/100, rank #168 of 1253. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/axlr.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/axlr.json\n- OpenHands: grade BB, 70.3/100, rank #174 of 1253. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openhands.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openhands.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 1000 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AXLR (BB)\n\nGood for: A program or bot that needs one governed execution at a time, with a policy, a budget, a sandbox profile and correlation ids it sets itself and a result object it reads back, on a machine it controls, with the model on OpenRouter, a local server or a native Anthropic or OpenAI key.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 78\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where OpenHands loses 7 points for them\n\nWatch for: The setup assistant turns autonomy on and leaves the exec sandbox off, so after setup the model's commands run with the person's rights, bar the destructive list\n\n### OpenHands (BB)\n\nGood for: Teams that want to self-host a coding agent with a web UI, per-conversation Docker sandboxes and scheduled or webhook automations, or embed the agent through a Python SDK and REST API.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 90 against 70\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 90 against 80\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 79\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 67 against 55\n\nWatch for: Confirmation mode is off by default in Agent Canvas, and the npm install gives the agent the host's whole filesystem\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Reliability: OpenHands +20\n\n- AXLR (70): Read as a local package, as claude-code, goose, opencode and openhands were. Release archives for Linux, macOS and Windows on amd64 and arm64 with a `.sha256` beside each, a GHCR image, an OCI Helm chart and source builds with Go 1.26, all stated in the docs; no Homebrew, npm or apt route (20). CI on main runs vet, race tests and a coverage gate above 80 per cent for both modules, with the sandbox tests required under bubblewrap, and the last ten runs on main to 1 November 2026 all passed; the release workflow tests on six native runners (25). 10 open issues, all opened by the founder on 19 and 21 October 2026 as trackers for service work (work modes, plugins, the sandbox setting, cost limits), none from an outside user and none a crash report, 0 open pull requests and about 100 merged; with 0 stars there is nobody else to report, so the handling of outside reports is untested (20). Tags are semver 0.x and the docs date each behaviour change inline (\"until 14 October 2026…\"), but the 21 releases have empty notes, there is no CHANGELOG.md, and the product contract records one retirement (the seven 1.0 skill definitions on 5 October 2026) without a notice period (5). Pre-1.0, which the README calls an evolving project (0). 20+25+20+5+0 = 70.\n- OpenHands (90): Read as a local package. Official npm package @openhands/agent-canvas (Node 24 or later, plus uv), a Docker image on GHCR and openhands-sdk on PyPI (Python 3.12 or later) (20). A CI workflow (ci.yml) runs on main beside desktop, Docker and end-to-end workflows; the runs passed on every load on 1 October, and GitHub's pages refused us on 1 November, so the award rests on that check (25). 456 open issues and 395 open pull requests with priority labels and a high-priority Cloud resume bug (#17664), per the 1 October check, not re-read on 1 November (18). Dated release notes for every Canvas version and a written SDK rule of at least five minor releases before a public API or REST contract is removed, which the SDK followed on 28 October when it dropped the ACP curated model lists at their stated 1.59.0 deadline, but the Canvas CHANGELOG.md still stops at 1.0.0-alpha.2 (12). Canvas is 1.34.0 and the SDK 1.59.0, and the README's beta badge was removed on 23 October 2026 (commit 4d1c4d1, noted in the 1.33.0 release notes), so the product is no longer labelled beta. Only the Apps extension API keeps a beta label (15).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: OpenHands +12\n\n- AXLR (55): Apache-2.0 with a NOTICE (30). No privacy policy or terms on underpassai.com or axlr.underpassai.com; the docs' 'Where data goes' and 'Diagnostics and privacy' sections say that model requests go to OpenRouter, the local server or the native API, that Jev sends text to TypeSafe only when on, that sessions live under `$XDG_STATE_HOME/axlr`, that payload capture is off by default and redacted when on, and that traces are deleted after 30 days; nothing covers the engine downloads' or the catalog registry's handling of a client's requests (15). No deprecation policy; pre-1.0 changes are dated inline in the docs and the product contract records the 5 October 2026 retirement of the first skill catalogue after the fact (6). No telemetry to disclose, and the docs say in two places what leaves the machine and how to stop payload capture, though no single page says there is no telemetry (17). 30+15+6+17 = 68.\n- OpenHands (67): MIT across Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server (30). The privacy policy (effective 3 September 2025, re-read on 1 November) doesn't separate the open-source stack from the Cloud service, keeps data as long as reasonably necessary, allows training on content from the Services and has no subprocessor list (12). A written SDK deprecation runway of five minor releases, kept on 28 October when the ACP model lists were removed at their 1.59.0 deadline, and the CLI's unmaintained notice in its README without a date on the page (15). The consent prompt calls the data anonymous and the Docker page documents `AGENT_CANVAS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY`, but no user-facing page mentions the install event sent before consent (10).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: OpenHands +10\n\n- AXLR (80): An OpenAPI 3.1 file for the service (15 paths, 23 schemas, `mutualTLS` security scheme, `additionalProperties: false` on request bodies), a checked proto for the gRPC service, and the 19 MCP tools built from the same shared schemas (25). No llms.txt on either site (404), and the docs site renders HTML; the Markdown sources are in the repository (5). The product contract tables what each of the four interfaces can and cannot do, the work-mode table states each mode's purpose and tool policy, the transport parity ledger names every verb's arguments and behaviour, and `axlr_tools` tells the model to look for a tool before forging one (15). Typed inputs throughout, `Idempotency-Key` 16 to 128 safe ASCII characters, `expected_revision` a positive integer, policy levels, sandbox profiles and egress values enumerated, budgets as four integers, and the service rejects unknown fields, invalid types and bodies over 4 MiB (14). Examples in every guide, an error shape of `code`, `message` and `request_id`, named codes (`409 idempotency_conflict`, `400 invalid_cursor`, `422 invalid_policy`, `invalid_budget`, `sandbox_unavailable`, `not_ready`, `invalid_id`), a gRPC status mapping, and the worker's five statuses and three exit codes; no single error reference page (14). `/v1` routes and an OpenAPI version of 0.1.0 against a 0.15.0 release, and no changelog beyond the dated notes inside the docs (7). 25+5+15+14+14+7 = 80.\n- OpenHands (90): The Agent Server REST API has an OpenAPI 3.1 spec in the docs repository (40 paths, still labelled 0.1.0), the Cloud API has another (155 paths), SDK models are Pydantic-typed and there's a TypeScript client (25). llms.txt at docs.openhands.dev (551 lines on 1 November), with no CLI, local GUI or V0 pages in it (10). The docs have a when-to-use page and examples of good and bad task instructions. On 23 October the Deprecated Projects group (local GUI, CLI, V0) was taken out of the navigation and links to it reworded towards Agent Canvas, though the pages stay reachable by URL and the SDK architecture page still links the CLI repository (15). Confirmation policies, security analysers and MCP configs are discriminated Pydantic unions with validators (13). SDK examples are checked by a CI workflow and there are troubleshooting pages, but we found no error reference for the Agent Server (12). Dated release notes for each Canvas version in the docs (1.25.0 to 1.34.0 added since 1 October), and release tags (15).\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: OpenHands +6\n\n- AXLR (79): v0.15.0 on 2026-10-25, with commits on main to 2026-11-01 (30). 21 releases between 4 and 25 October 2026 (20). One maintainer (368 of 399 commits, the rest by two agent accounts), 10 open issues that are his own trackers with no comments, about 100 merged pull requests and no outside report to measure a reply against (15). Not in the MCP registry; the Go module and a proto to generate clients from are the only client code, beside the GHCR image and Helm chart (5). Go 1.26 toolchain pinned, release actions pinned by commit SHA, a go-licenses check that the third-party bundle matches the dependency graph, and CI passing on main (9). 30+20+15+5+9 = 79.\n- OpenHands (85): Agent Canvas 1.34.0 on 2026-10-27 and SDK 1.59.0 on 2026-10-28, by the repository tags (30). 29 Canvas releases (1.9.0 on 3 August to 1.34.0) and 33 SDK releases (1.40.1 on 5 August to 1.59.0) in the 90 days from 3 August, not counting the security rebuild tags (20). Issues labelled by priority, but 456 open issues and 395 open pull requests and no visible reply times per the 1 October check; GitHub's pages refused us on 1 November (16). npm, PyPI and GHCR packages current per the 1 October check (the registries didn't answer from our shell on 1 November). The unmaintained `openhands` CLI is gone from the docs navigation and the pricing page but its pages remain (10). CI on main, Dependabot, a security scan and an API-breakage check on the SDK, and security rebuilds of older images (agent-canvas 1.23.0-r3, agent-server 1.49.5-r3, 29 October) (9).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: AXLR +5\n\n- AXLR (83): Harness reading of the framework line, scored on what a program driving it has to supply. Six local tools plus the host's bookkeeping tools; work modes and an execution policy hide the tools a run may not use, `axlr_catalog` searches the catalog instead of loading it, forged tools keep the request prefix for the prompt cache, and a context cap of 75,000 prompt tokens opens a successor session (20). `local_read`, `local_search` and `local_list` page with `offset`, `next_offset` and `max_bytes`; `StreamEvents` takes `after`, `max_events` (1 to 256) and `wait_ms`; a budget per execution in seconds, requests, tool calls and dollars; 32 tool calls a turn and `max_session_usd` (20). The `--exec` run ends in one `result` line with a status, the pending call, every call's outcome and the usage, and exits 0, 3 or 1; service errors carry codes an agent can act on; a budget stop says which limit (`budget: requests 20 reached`) and leaves the session resumable (16). `Idempotency-Key` on every turn, approval and direct call with cross-transport replay, `expected_revision` on decisions, `expected_sha256` on worker writes, and an interrupted effectful call left `uncertain` for an operator rather than retried (19). One command runs a task, but the first launch needs an OpenRouter key or a local server, the service needs a CA, a principals file and remote KMP and MADE before a first session, and the only SDK is the Go library (8). 20+20+16+19+8 = 83.\n- OpenHands (78): Harness reading of the framework line, scored on what an agent or pipeline driving it has to supply. The default agent carries three tools (terminal, file editor, task tracker), and `filter_tools_regex` trims MCP tools before they reach the model (23). Stuck detection is on by default and a condenser compacts long histories, but Canvas leaves `max_iterations` unset and we found no cost cap (15). Headless runs go through the SDK, the Agent Server REST API or the Cloud API with typed events, and the old CLI's `--headless` mode is unmaintained (14). Conversations persist and resume, and a Docker conversation keeps its workspace and history when the container is replaced (16). Python SDK and TypeScript client, but the quickstart needs Node 24 and uv, and the defaults skip both confirmation and the sandbox (10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AXLR | OpenHands | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 90 | OpenHands +20 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 90 | OpenHands +10 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 83 | 78 | AXLR +5 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 64 | OpenHands +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 79 | 85 | OpenHands +6 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 67 | OpenHands +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -7 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.6 · BB** | **70.3 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AXLR | OpenHands |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Underpass AI | All Hands AI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder | MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-09-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | not read yet | yes |\n| Popularity | 0 stars | 90k stars |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### AXLR\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### OpenHands\n\n- -0.7 on 1 November 2026: security, product\n- +0.2 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.1 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AXLR.** A pre-1.0 Go harness with an unusually complete service contract, mutual TLS with principal roles, required idempotency keys, a policy, budget and sandbox per execution, and a result object a program can read. The console's defaults after setup are autonomy on and no sandbox, the project has one maintainer and no outside users yet, and releases carry no notes.\n\n**OpenHands.** A self-hosted coding agent with a typed SDK, an Agent Server API and a Docker container per conversation on request. Agent Canvas still starts with confirmation off on the host's filesystem, sends an install event before asking consent, and a critical SDK sandbox flaw fixed in October was published by a third party.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AXLR\n\n1. Before the first prompt, set `approvals.autonomous` to false or run with `--approve none`, and turn `exec_sandbox.mode` to `auto` or `required` on Linux; after setup both default the other way\n2. Drive a run with `axlr-tui --exec --json --policy \u003cfile\u003e --budget \u003cfile\u003e --sandbox \u003cfile\u003e` and read only the last `result` line; exit 3 means a call waits for `--decide approve|deny` with `--session \u003cid\u003e`\n3. On the service, send `Idempotency-Key` (16 to 128 safe ASCII characters) on every turn, approval and direct call, and pass the session's `expected_revision`; a reused key with a different body answers 409\n4. A local model must return native tool calls (llama.cpp with `--jinja`, vLLM with `--enable-auto-tool-choice`); set `context_tokens` on the entry and `OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH` for Ollama\n5. Leave `TYPESAFE_API_KEY` unset unless you want the setup assistant to switch Jev on, which sends requests and final answers to TypeSafe\n\n### OpenHands\n\n1. Set `AGENT_CANVAS_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1` and `DO_NOT_TRACK=1` before the first start\n2. Start Canvas with `OH_CONVERSATION_RUNTIME=docker` or use the Docker image. The npm install runs the agent on the host\n3. Turn on confirmation mode with a risk threshold. Canvas starts with it off\n4. Pin openhands-sdk and openhands-workspace at 1.52.0 or later so DockerWorkspace binds to loopback, and set `OH_SESSION_API_KEYS_0` on any reachable Agent Server\n5. Use the SDK or the Agent Server API for headless runs. The `openhands --headless` CLI is no longer maintained\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AXLR or OpenHands?\n\nAXLR and OpenHands score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 70.6 (BB) and 70.3 (BB). OpenHands leads on reliability, schema \u0026 documentation, maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are AXLR and OpenHands open source?\n\nYes. AXLR is open source (Apache-2.0, with a NOTICE naming Tirso García Ibáñez as the copyright holder). OpenHands is open source (MIT (Agent Canvas, SDK, tools and Agent Server). OpenHands Cloud is a hosted service).\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openhands.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openhands.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"axlr\", \"b\": \"openhands\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare axlr openhands`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/axlr.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openhands.json\n\n## Other comparisons with AXLR or OpenHands\n\n- [Agent Zero vs AXLR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-axlr.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Aider vs AXLR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-axlr.md)\n- [Aider vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Amp vs AXLR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-axlr.md)\n- [Amp vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs AXLR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-axlr.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs AXLR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-axlr.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-openhands.md)\n- [AXLR vs Claude Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-claude-code.md)\n- [AXLR vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-cline.md)\n- [AXLR vs Crush](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-crush.md)\n- [AXLR vs Cursor CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-cursor-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-deepseek-harness.md)\n- [AXLR vs dsh-superagent (DeepSeek)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-deepseek-superagent.md)\n- [AXLR vs Devin](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-devin.md)\n- [AXLR vs Droid CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-droid-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs Pi](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-earendil-pi.md)\n- [AXLR vs Gemini CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-gemini-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs GitHub Copilot CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-github-copilot-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs goose](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-goose.md)\n- [AXLR vs Harness²](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-harness2.md)\n- [AXLR vs HarnessRouter](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-harnessrouter.md)\n- [AXLR vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-jules.md)\n- [AXLR vs Junie CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-junie.md)\n- [AXLR vs Kilo Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-kilo-code-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs Kimi Code CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-kimi-code-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs Kiro CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-kiro-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs mini-swe-agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-mini-swe-agent.md)\n- [AXLR vs MiniMax Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-minimax-code.md)\n- [AXLR vs Mistral Vibe CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs Muse Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-muse-code.md)\n- [AXLR vs OpenAI Codex](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openai-codex.md)\n- [AXLR vs OpenCode](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-opencode.md)\n- [AXLR vs OpenMausBot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-openmausbot.md)\n- [AXLR vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [AXLR vs Qoder CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-qoder-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [AXLR vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n- [AXLR vs Rovo Dev CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-rovo-dev-cli.md)\n- [AXLR vs Unstoppable](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-unstoppable.md)\n- [AXLR vs Vibe-Trading](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-vibe-trading.md)\n- [AXLR vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-warp.md)\n- [Claude Code vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Cline vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Crush vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Cursor CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-openhands.md)\n- [dsh-superagent (DeepSeek) vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-superagent-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Devin vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Droid CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Pi vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Gemini CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [GitHub Copilot CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [goose vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Harness² vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-openhands.md)\n- [HarnessRouter vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Jules vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Junie CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/junie-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Kilo Code CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kilo-code-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Kimi Code CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kimi-code-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Kiro CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/kiro-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [mini-swe-agent vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mini-swe-agent-vs-openhands.md)\n- [MiniMax Code vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/minimax-code-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Mistral Vibe CLI vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mistral-vibe-cli-vs-openhands.md)\n- [Muse Code vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/muse-code-vs-openhands.md)\n- [OpenAI Codex vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-codex-vs-openhands.md)\n- [OpenCode vs OpenHands](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/opencode-vs-openhands.md)\n- [OpenHands vs OpenMausBot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-openmausbot.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Prime Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-prime-agent.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Qoder CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-qoder-cli.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Qwen Code](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-qwen-code.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Mirror CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-reflection-mirror.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Rovo Dev CLI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-rovo-dev-cli.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Unstoppable](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-unstoppable.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Vibe-Trading](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-vibe-trading.md)\n- [OpenHands vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openhands-vs-warp.md)\n- [AXLR vs Clawboo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-clawboo.md)\n- [AXLR vs CLI Manager](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-cli-manager.md)\n- [AXLR vs Harness](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/axlr-vs-harness-autonomous.md)\n- [AXLR vs 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