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by TencentCloud
A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.
# Add to your Claude Code skills
git clone https://github.com/TencentCloud/OctopLast scanned: 7/28/2026
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Octop is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by TencentCloud. A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent. It has 10,958 GitHub stars.
Yes. Octop passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/TencentCloud/Octop" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
Octop is primarily written in Python. It is open-source under TencentCloud on GitHub, so you can review or fork the full source.
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Automated security scan — not a certification.
Octop is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant. It's not just a tool — it's a digital life form that can operate in parallel. Through its multi-agent architecture, it builds an intelligent environment that is both independent and collaborative for teams, families, and individuals. Best of all, it runs entirely on your machine — the fully self-hosted design means privacy is never a compromise, while single-process startup makes the powerful web console, CLI, and IM integrations readily accessible.
Chat through the Web Dashboard, Feishu, DingTalk, QQ, WeChat, Telegram, Discord, WeCom, or programmatic HTTP/SSE/WebSocket. Extend capabilities with the expert library, Connectors (OAuth + MCP), and ACP integration for IDE workflows.
| Feature | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 👥 | Multi-user expert team | One admin, shared household; built-in expert library and expert market — switch specialists per scenario |
| 🤝 | Cloud collaboration | Link this Octop to another instance to browse peer experts and chat across instances; history stays on the expert's side |
| 🎭 | MBTI personas | 16 personality templates plus an interactive quiz — give each agent a distinct character |
| 🎯 | AgentTeams (Beta) | A coordinator schedules multiple experts on multi-step work; details |
| 🔒 | Security built-in | JWT multi-user isolation, tool approval, shell command guardrails, and PII redaction — data stays local |
| 🔌 | Connector ecosystem | Tencent suite (Docs, Meeting, News, …); OAuth and MCP gateway extend resource boundaries — supported connectors |
| 💾 | Pluggable workspace backends | Local disk, Docker sandbox, PostgreSQL, or COS/S3 for agent files — separate from the control-plane DB |
| 🧠 | Portable memory | Powered by Octop Memory; memory migrates with the workspace |
| 📚 | Knowledge base | RAG over your documents; share corpora within a deployment and ground answers in your private data |
| 🧩 | Plugins | Extend Octop with third-party plugins; bundled plugins are seeded and toggled on demand |
| ↔️ | ACP bidirectional | octop acp for IDE/terminal AI; delegate to OpenCode / Claude Code with permission gates |
| 💻 | Terminal AI+ | Interactive shell in the browser — AI-assisted command execution and troubleshooting |
| 🌐 | Browser AI+ | Headless Chromium sessions for web automation, screenshots, and remote browsing |
| 🖥️ | Remote desktop | Live screen and input from the dashboard on Linux, Windows, and macOS — remote office work and GUI apps; one-click isolated desktop on headless Linux |
| 🪟 | Desktop client | Native Windows / macOS / Linux apps (and FnOS packages) alongside the web dashboard |
| 🏠 | Self-hosted | Dashboard, CLI, IM channels, and cron in one octop run — all data under ~/.octop/ |
Octop is a self-hosted AI assistant platform for households and small teams. It runs a single process that serves a web dashboard, a CLI, IM channels (Feishu, DingTalk, QQ, WeChat, Telegram, Discord, WeCom, and more), and cron automation — all sharing one control-plane database under ~/.octop/ (SQLite by default; PostgreSQL optional).
Octop's design goal: keep every conversation, workspace, and credential on your own machine, while giving each user a personal team of specialized agents they can switch between per task.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Language | Python 3.12+ |
| Web framework | FastAPI + uvicorn |
| Agent runtime | Octop Harness |
| Gateway | Octop Gateway |
| Control plane DB | SQLite (WAL, default) or PostgreSQL (optional) |
| Frontend | React 18 + TypeScript + Vite + Ant Design |
| Scheduling | APScheduler |
| ACP | agent-client-protocol |
| Build / quality | hatchling · ruff · mypy · pytest |
Octop is built on the Octop Harness stack — a set of focused runtimes that Octop composes into one process:
Instead of an external queue or message broker, Octop routes every surface — Web UI, IM, and cron — through one in-process HarnessProcessor. The result is a single, restart-safe process whose entire state is rebuilt from the control-plane database on boot (local SQLite by default; PostgreSQL optional).
octop init)/api/docs (off by default — set "enable_api_docs": true in config.json to enable)infra/agents/experts/library/); expert market and in-deployment expert sharingoctop run, octop chats, octop acp, admin commandsoctop plugin); bundled plugins are seeded and toggled on demand from the dashboardOctop supports ACP in two directions:
octop acp --agent main # stdio ACP serve