Octop

Project Overview

Octop is Tencent Cloud's open-source self-hosted AI assistant, 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. 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.

Key Features

• Multi-user expert team: One admin, shared household; built-in expert library — switch specialists per scenario
• MBTI personas: 16 personality templates plus an interactive quiz — give each agent a distinct character
• Security built-in: JWT multi-user isolation, tool approval, shell command guardrails, and PII redaction — data stays local
• Connector ecosystem: Tencent suite (Docs, Weibo trends, News, …); OAuth and MCP gateway extend resource boundaries
• Pluggable backends: Local disk, Docker containers, PostgreSQL, or COS/S3
• Portable memory: Powered by harness-memory; memory migrates with the workspace
• Knowledge base: RAG over your documents; semantic retrieval grounds agent answers in your private corpus
• Plugins: Extend Octop with third-party plugins
• ACP bidirectional: octop acp for IDE/terminal AI
• Terminal AI+: Interactive shell in the browser
• 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
• Self-hosted: Dashboard, CLI, IM channels, and cron in one octop run

Target Audience

• Households and small teams who need a self-hosted AI assistant
• Privacy-conscious users who want data to stay entirely local
• Developers who need multi-agent collaboration

Quick Start

1. Visit the Octop documentation for installation
2. Run octop run to start
3. Use via Web Dashboard, Feishu, DingTalk, QQ, Discord, and more

Core Advantages

• Fully self-hosted with privacy-first design
• Multi-user, multi-agent architecture
• Rich connector and plugin ecosystem
• Open-sourced by Tencent Cloud with reliable quality

System Requirements

• OS: Cross-platform
• Additional Dependencies: Python, Node.js