OpenHands

Works with the CLI alone. No gander.md account.

OpenHands is an open platform for cloud coding agents. It is open source, model-agnostic, and scales from one agent to many.

OpenHands loads skills from ~/.openhands/skills and .openhands/skills. gander skill does not write that dest. Add a symlink on the machine (or image) where the agent runs. Cloud agents only see project skills you commit, not ~/.openhands on your laptop.

1. Install the CLI

curl -fsSL https://release.gander.md/install.sh | bash
gander --version

After Homebrew or a source build, run gander skill. The gander binary must be on the PATH inside the OpenHands runtime, not only on your laptop, if the agent runs remotely.

Local / desktop:

mkdir -p ~/.openhands/skills
ln -sfn ~/.gander/skill ~/.openhands/skills/gander

For a repo that cloud agents clone, copy the skill folder to .openhands/skills/gander and commit it (do not commit ~/.gander/config.json).

3. Sign up and add MCP

gander signup --email [email protected]

Add a stdio MCP server named gander, command gander, args mcp. The OpenHands runtime must be able to spawn that binary.

4. Use it

  1. Ask OpenHands for a plan as markdown, then gander this file.
  2. gander watch plan.md after signup, from a process that can reach gander.md and the file.
  3. Send the hosted URL.
  4. @agent comments come through MCP.

Fallback: gander comments.

5. Verify

gander list
gander comments
ls ~/.openhands/skills/gander

More: Skill, MCP, Hosted watch.