# OpenHands — User Demand Report

**Week:** 2026-W14
**Generated:** 2026-04-03
**Issues analyzed:** 14 (13 included)
**Need clusters:** 2

## Top 10 User Needs

| Rank | Need | Issues | Score | Category | Examples |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | UI/UX Quality Improvements and Bug Fixes | 11 | 2.3 | UI/UX | [#13771](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13771), [#13769](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13769), [#13740](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13740) |
| 2 | Security Guardrails for Agent Actions and Dependencies | 2 | 1.0 | Security | [#13731](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13731), [#13697](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13697) |

## Rising Needs

| Need | Rising Score | This Week | Category |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| UI/UX Quality Improvements and Bug Fixes | 12.0x | 11 | UI/UX |
| Security Guardrails for Agent Actions and Dependencies | 3.0x | 2 | Security |

## Category Breakdown

- **UI/UX**: 1 clusters
- **Security**: 1 clusters

## All Need Clusters

### 1. UI/UX Quality Improvements and Bug Fixes

Users are requesting various bug fixes and quality improvements across the application's user interface, including fixing message duplication, display issues with the think tool and repository picker, and message handling during status transitions. Additionally, users want UX enhancements like reducing comment clutter in integrations and new observability features such as per-conversation diagnostics and a scheduled automations management page.

- **Volume:** 11 issues (10 open, 1 closed)
- **Demand Score:** 2.3
- **Avg Reactions:** 0 | **Avg Comments:** 2.5
- **Example issues:** [#13771](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13771), [#13769](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13769), [#13740](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13740), [#13738](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13738), [#13737](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13737)

### 2. Security Guardrails for Agent Actions and Dependencies

Users want built-in security guardrails to control AI agent behavior and protect against threats. This includes policy-based controls using OPA (Open Policy Agent) to govern what actions agents can execute, as well as supply chain protections like minimum dependency age checks to prevent attacks from newly published malicious packages.

- **Volume:** 2 issues (2 open, 0 closed)
- **Demand Score:** 1.0
- **Avg Reactions:** 0 | **Avg Comments:** 0.5
- **Example issues:** [#13731](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13731), [#13697](https://github.com/OpenHands/OpenHands/issues/13697)

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*This report analyzes public GitHub issues only. It represents a signal from public issue discussions, not the full user base.*

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