OpenHands Weekly Update: Kimi K3 Becomes Free Default Model
OpenHands' weekly update makes Kimi K3 the free default model for both Canvas and OpenHands Cloud, with new users pointed to it by default and no API key required. Alongside, several features land in automation, conversation UI, onboarding, and enterprise administration.
Confirmed
- Kimi K3 is now the free default model for Canvas and OpenHands Cloud, with no API key needed for new users (@rajistics)
- New conversation overview panel integrates workspace details, code changes, resources, Skills, MCP, secrets, PRs and issues beside the chat, showing committed and uncommitted changes in one view
- New automation dashboard consolidates status, recent activity, run results, filters and recommendations
- New onboarding checklist / first-run wizard guides users through LLM setup, first conversation, task scheduling, agent customization and MCP configuration; the checklist can be hidden in app settings
- Local provider connections let multiple LLM profiles share one credential, with updates applying to all linked profiles at once
- Admins can configure Jira Cloud once for the whole organization on SaaS or OHE, removing per-member integration
Why it matters
A free default model sharply lowers the entry barrier, and pairing it with the onboarding wizard should improve first-run experience. The conversation overview panel and automation dashboard centralize scattered workflow information, while org-level Jira Cloud setup and credential reuse target team and enterprise scenarios, signaling continued productization of OpenHands.
2026-08-22 ~ 2026-08-22 · 7 related posts
Primary sources
- [source] OpenHands updates: Kimi K3 is now the free default model — rajistics · 2026-08-22
- [source] OpenHands integrates Automations dashboard, enables Kimi K3 by default — rajistics · 2026-08-22
- OpenHands introduces conversation Overview panel and Automations dashboard — rajistics · 2026-08-22
- OpenHands adds Getting Started checklist, integrates Kimi K3 as default model — rajistics · 2026-08-22
- OpenHands introduces local provider connections for credential reuse — rajistics · 2026-08-22
- [source] OpenHands supports enterprise Jira Cloud one-time configuration — rajistics · 2026-08-22
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