Open Agents is an open-source reference app for building and running background coding agents on Vercel. It includes the web UI, the agent runtime, sandbox orchestration, and the GitHub integration needed to go from prompt to code changes without keeping your laptop involved.
Today we're open sourcing http://open-agents.dev, a reference platform for cloud coding agents. You've heard that companies like Stripe (Minions), Ramp (Inspect), Spotify (Honk), Block (Goose), and others are building their own "AI software factories". Why?
On a technical level, off-the-shelf coding agents don't perform well with huge monorepos, don't have your institutional knowledge, integrations, and custom workflows.
On a business level, the moat of software companies will shift from 'the code they wrote', to the 'means of production' of that code. The alpha is in your factory.
Open Agents deploys to our agentic infrastructure: Fluid for running the agent's brain, Workflow for its long-running durability, Sandbox for secure code execution, AI Gateway for multi-model tokens.
(Because of our focus on Open SDKs and runtimes, this codebase is a gem even if you're not hosting on Vercel.)
TL;DR: if you're building an internal or user-facing agentic coding platform, deploy this:
This is the kind of open-source release that actually moves the ecosystem forward. I'm building a consumer app solo and the idea of background agents handling PRs while I focus on product decisions is the dream. Really curious about the sandbox orchestration layer, how do you handle state when an agent needs context from multiple repos? Excited to dig into the source.
If you assume prompt injection is inevitable, what’s the practical security posture you recommend for a production deployment (secrets handling, network egress, tool permissions, approval gates), and which parts do you expect teams to customize first?
love this
going from prompt to actual code changes without staying in the loop is where things get interesting
nice to see this as an open reference as well
how are you handling sandbox isolation for different tasks?
About Open Agents on Product Hunt
“Agents that ship real code”
Open Agents launched on Product Hunt on April 14th, 2026 and earned 158 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #9 on the daily leaderboard. Open Agents is an open-source reference app for building and running background coding agents on Vercel. It includes the web UI, the agent runtime, sandbox orchestration, and the GitHub integration needed to go from prompt to code changes without keeping your laptop involved.
Open Agents was featured in Open Source (68.3k followers), Developer Tools (511k followers), Artificial Intelligence (466.2k followers) and GitHub (41.2k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 182.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Open Agents?
Open Agents was hunted by Chris Messina. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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