open-agents

Why we included this project

Open Agents is a reference app for teams that want coding agents to keep working after the laptop goes to sleep. It bundles the full stack: a web UI with auth and streaming chat, a durable workflow runtime, and an isolated sandbox VM where the agent reads files, runs shell commands, and works with git. The architectural choice that sets it apart is that the agent does not run inside the VM; it lives outside and reaches in through tools, so the sandbox can hibernate and resume on its own while the workflow keeps running. Because the repo is meant to be forked and adapted rather than treated as a black box, it gives you a working base for going from prompt to code changes, and model providers or sandbox implementations can evolve independently.