Self-hosting an OpenHands-style coding agent: what you own, and where a team outgrows it

Description and use

Kortix scales coding agents by centralizing them in a Git repo, managing permissions, and isolating execution, while keeping OpenHands for repository‑centric work.

Problem

Teams need a coding agent that can be shared, scheduled, governed, and run at scale beyond a single developer’s machine.

Outcome

Kortix enables teams to run coding agents at scale with shared knowledge, enforced permissions, and isolated execution, while keeping the original coding harness for repository‑centric work.

Workflow

• 1. Store agents, skills, and company memory as markdown files in a Git repo.
• 2. Define connectors, triggers, and permissions in kortix.yaml.
• 3. Each session runs on an isolated machine with its own branch.
• 4. Changes are submitted as pull requests to main, with merge default‑deny for agents.
• 5. Use own model keys or existing ChatGPT plan; credentials are brokered server‑side.
• 6. Deploy self‑hosted on laptop, VPS, VPC, or on‑prem, or use managed cloud.

Evidence

OpenHands runs on the machine in front of you, in Docker, or in your own cloud, and a developer can have it working in an afternoon.

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A single workspace plus a conversation is simply the wrong shape for work that has to be shared, scheduled and governed.

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Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System. It answers those four questions by making everything a file in a git repository you own…

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