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Octop

Tencent Cloud's self-hosted, multi-user AI assistant: per-user expert agents, AgentTeams, memory, RAG and connectors, served as one process to a web dashboard, CLI and 8+ IM channels.

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Built for a household or small team that wants one box everyone talks to: JWT-isolated users, an expert library to switch specialists per task, and reach through Feishu, DingTalk, QQ, WeChat, WeCom, Telegram or Discord without wiring each bot. Strongest fit inside the China IM/Tencent ecosystem (Docs, Meeting connectors); the extras — browser sessions, remote desktop, ACP delegation to Claude Code/OpenCode — make it a personal ops console, not just chat. Skip it if you want a library to build agents with (it is a product), if you only need one user on one channel (a single-binary bot is lighter), or if beta AgentTeams orchestration is your main reason to adopt.

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A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.

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Highlights · Overview · Core Technology · Features · Roadmap · Quick Start · Contents

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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.

✨ Highlights

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
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