@enyst sorry for the ping. Do you know the answer to this?

Ah, I'm not sure cli.py ever had the command line args, maybe it should!

Indeed there's another way, personally I use it via main.py. This is a bit of documentation on it: https://docs.all-hands.dev/modules/usage/how-to/headless-mode

I think there was another bit somewhere (about IDE configurations) which covers more parameters... aha, it's for openhands development, but in case it helps, found it: https://docs.all-hands.dev/modules/usage/how-to/debugging

Please note that main.py needs --no-auto-continue too so that it acts interactively. It accepts -t, along with many other parameters:

• OpenHands/openhands/core/config/utils.py

  Line 305 in 51af292

  def get_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:

Significant differences:

• via main.py, it stops on a Finish action
• you can restart it, and if you want, you can restart where it was, if you enable session save to reload sessions
• you may want to use e.g. -n work-test to set session names.

I just posted and realized what happened: cli.py probably did have the command line args, several months ago, it must have lost them in a large refactoring (the args parser used to be executed on import).

Hi @enyst. Using 0.19.0 (which appears to have this fix), I'm still seeing the same prior behavior where "-t" doesn't appear to take effect:

steve_cosenza@Steves-MacBook-Pro treehouse % docker run -it --pull=always -e SANDBOX_RUNTIME_CONTAINER_IMAGE=openhands-airbnb-mac_0.19.0 -e SANDBOX_USER_ID=501 -e SANDBOX_TIMEOUT=5000 -e LLM_API_KEY=<redacted> -e LLM_BASE_URL=https://redacted -e LLM_MODEL=litellm_proxy/bedrock/us.anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022-v2:0 -e WORKSPACE_MOUNT_PATH=/Users/steve_cosenza/airlab/repos/treehouse -e SANDBOX_KEEP_RUNTIME_ALIVE=true -p 3000:3000 -v /Users/steve_cosenza/airlab/repos/treehouse:/opt/workspace_base -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /Users/steve_cosenza/.openhands-state:/.openhands-state --add-host host.docker.internal:host-gateway --name o
penhands-app-20250109181152 docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/openhands:0.19.0 python -m openhands.core.cli -t "Create a foo.txt file in the root of the workspace"

0.19.0: Pulling from all-hands-ai/openhands
Digest: sha256:e7313135d272f6857ad0c889a331b5a4774d583a278fdb12056fbf91333e0374
Status: Image is up to date for docker.all-hands.dev/all-hands-ai/openhands:0.19.0
Starting OpenHands...
Setting up enduser with id 501
Docker socket group id: 0
root:x:0:
Group with id 0 already exists
Running as enduser
/app/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pydantic/_internal/_config.py:341: UserWarning: Valid config keys have changed in V2:
* 'fields' has been removed
  warnings.warn(message, UserWarning)
>> 

I'm left with an empty prompt, and the foo.txt file was never created.

The behavior that I'm expecting is that "-t" sets the first message to the agent, and then I get the interactive prompt for a followup conversation.

Oops, I did intend to catch this last time! I think, I keep using main.py and think of it as cli.py, so when it worked with main.py I was happy enough. 😢

No worries and thanks for re-opening the issue.