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OpenHands

github.com/OpenHands/software-agent-sdk

12
tools registered
4/6
compared capabilities
it has a tool for
2
of those tools
read from source

OpenHands registers 12 tools, covering 4 of 6 compared capabilities. It registers no built-in tool for web search or long-term memory.

Surface size

tools registered, across the 13 harnesses here

Surface size, not quality. Every registered tool spends context on every request, so a longer bar is a cost as much as a capability — and a harness that reaches a capability through a general tool may register fewer.

Capabilities

what serves each, and where it is compared
CapabilityToolsAcross harnesses
Readfile_editor13 of 13 have one →
Browserbrowser_use3 of 13 have one →
Web searchno built-in tool9 of 13 have one →
Code searchglobpartial · grep13 of 13 have one →
Shellterminal13 of 13 have one →
Long-term memoryno built-in tool4 of 13 have one →

Where its tools differ from the rest

  • glob · Glob syntaxripgrep -g, or Python glob with an implicit **/vs ripgrep --glob in 4 of 7
  • glob · Searches hidden filesnovs yes in 7 of 13
  • grep · Regex dialectvaries by backend: Rust regex, POSIX, or Python revs Rust regex in 8 of 10
  • grep · Case sensitivityalways insensitive, not configurablevs sensitive, model can ask in 3 of 5
  • grep · Searches hidden filesnovs yes in 7 of 13

Derived by comparing every recorded value against the other implementations of the same capability. Differing is not a defect unless the row is marked an invariant.

All 12 tools

names verbatim, as registered

Not yet compared means registered by OpenHands but with no comparison page here — todo lists, subagent spawning, approval flows. They become capabilities the day there is a comparison worth reading, and the data does not have to change for that to happen.