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OpenHands supports a wide variety of software development tasks. Here are some of the key use cases where OpenHands can help accelerate your work. Each use case can be implemented in different ways—as a one-off conversation, a scheduled automation, a plugin, or through the SDK. Pick the approach that fits your workflow.

Ship Code Faster

Review PRs

Automated PR reviews to maintain code quality and catch bugs early.

Fix Merge Conflicts

Intelligently resolve merge conflicts by understanding both changes.

QA Testing

Validate PR changes by actually running the software as a real user would.

Keep Docs Up to Date

Automatically update documentation when code changes.

Automate Release Notes

Generate changelogs from git history with proper categorization.

Keep Engineering Systems Healthy

Fix CI Pipelines

Diagnose and fix CI/CD failures to get builds green again.

Manage Dependencies

Automate dependency updates and handle breaking changes.

Triage Incidents

Quickly investigate production incidents and generate fixes.

Clean Up Logs

Improve logging quality for better debugging and observability.

Tune Memory and CPU

Optimize resource usage for better performance and cost savings.

Improve Security and Quality

Fix Vulnerabilities

Identify and fix security vulnerabilities in your codebase.

Security Review

Security-focused code review covering OWASP Top 10 and best practices.

Discover Vulnerabilities

Proactively scan for CVEs, secrets, and insecure code patterns.

Zero-Day Response

Rapidly assess and respond to critical security vulnerabilities.

Audit Accessibility

Check for WCAG compliance and improve accessibility.

Architecture Review

Evaluate architecture for scalability and maintainability.

Turn Requests into Workflows

Slack Responder

Automated Slack bot that responds to engineering questions.

SEO Optimization

Audit and improve meta tags, structured data, and performance.

Internationalization

Add multi-language support with string extraction and i18n setup.

Legacy Modernization

COBOL Modernization

Understand and modernize legacy COBOL systems.

Spark Migrations

Migrate Apache Spark applications across versions.

Automate Any Use Case

Many use cases work best as scheduled automations. Browse ready-to-use automation templates on the Automations Overview page—just copy a prompt and paste it into OpenHands.

View Automation Templates

Ready-to-use prompts for vulnerability scans, code reviews, monitoring, and more.

Browse Plugins

Explore plugins in the OpenHands extensions repository for extended capabilities.

Build with the SDK

Build custom workflows and integrations using the Software Agent SDK.