openhands-automation

openhands-automation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenHands/extensions. It costs 62 tokens per session (10,058 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system for running OpenHands agents automatically on a schedule or when a webhook event occurs. A webhook is a message sent by another service when something happens.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps create and manage cron jobs and webhook-triggered workflows connected to services such as GitHub or Slack.
Why use it?
It keeps recurring and event-driven agent work running without someone launching it each time.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openhands/extensions/openhands-automation
Any agent
npx skills add OpenHands/extensions --skill openhands-automation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenHands/extensions

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 10,058 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.10058
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.05029
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.02012
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.01006

Measured 2d ago against content hash a5e12729ebfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

openhands-automation scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

Windows PowerShell equivalents for the automation API `curl` examples and shell-variable conventions are in `references/windows.md`.
skills/openhands-automation/SKILL.md · 890 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 890 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

OpenHands Automations

Create and manage automations that run inside an OpenHands agent server — triggered by cron schedules or webhook events (GitHub, custom services). Windows PowerShell equivalents for the automation API curl examples and shell-variable conventions are in references/windows.md.

Automation Creation Process

The agent must follow these steps when creating an automation:

  • Quickly check that you can access the correct automations backend using the auth mechanism below
  • Quickly check that you can access any necessary integrations (e.g. GitHub, Slack); if access fails, inform the user and stop
  • Ask the user for any necessary information, e.g. if you need the name of a Slack channel or GitHub repo to proceed
  • Write the code or prompt that will be sent to the automations backend inside the current workspace
  • Show the code to the user with the canvas_ui tool if available, otherwise present it in a fenced code block in your reply
  • Message the user with a concise summary of how the automation will behave, and ask if they are ready to deploy it

Architecture

Two components work together to run automations:

Automation Service (API at OPENHANDS_HOST/api/automation/v1) Manages the when: holds automation definitions, schedules cron-triggered runs, dispatches webhook-triggered runs, and receives completion callbacks to mark runs as done. This is the API you call to create, update, and manage automations.

Agent Server (accessible as AGENT_SERVER_URL inside script runs) Manages the what: the runtime environment where automation scripts execute and where conversations (AI agent interactions with tools, bash, file editing, etc.) run. When a run is triggered, the automation service uploads the automation's tarball to the agent server, which unpacks and runs the entrypoint script. The script connects back to the agent server using AGENT_SERVER_URL and a session API key to start, monitor, and stop conversations.

The agent server typically runs inside a sandbox (a Docker or Kubernetes container). Some deployments use sandboxless mode, where the agent server runs directly on a host.

Read the full file on GitHub · 890 lines

Files

What ships with it

9 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 890 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A a5e12729ebfe

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openhands-automation is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenHands/extensions (143 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 10,058 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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