Open Agents

Open Agents

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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.

The repo is meant to be forked and adapted, not treated as a black box.

What it is

Open Agents is a three-layer system:

Web -> Agent workflow -> Sandbox VM

• The web app handles auth, sessions, chat, and streaming UI.
• The agent runs as a durable workflow on Vercel.
• The sandbox is the execution environment: filesystem, shell, git, dev servers, and preview ports.

The key architectural decision: the agent is not the sandbox

The agent does not