Octop: Self-Hosted Multi-User AI Assistant

Octop is an open-source AI assistant you host yourself. It gives you a web UI, a CLI, and messaging integrations (Feishu, WeCom, DingTalk, QQ, WeChat, Telegram, and more) — all running in a single process, with every conversation and credential stored on your own machine under ~/.octop/.

Quick Start

Install Octop and be chatting in under five minutes

Docker Setup

Run Octop in a container for production deployments

Use on Tencent Cloud

Launch Octop on Lighthouse or CVM with the official image

Core Concepts

Understand agents, channels, connectors, and personas

API Reference

Automate everything through the HTTP and WebSocket API

What you can do with Octop

Chat with specialized agents — create multiple agents per user, each with its own LLM provider, skill set, and MBTI persona
Connect your messaging apps — route conversations from Feishu, WeCom, DingTalk, QQ, WeChat, Telegram, and more into your agents
Schedule automated tasks — set cron jobs that prompt your agents on a schedule
Ground answers in your files — upload documents to a knowledge base and see cited sources in chat
Delegate to coding agents — use ACP to connect OpenCode, CodeBuddy, Claude Code, Codex, Kimi Code, Cursor CLI, or Pi
Control remote environments — use the built-in browser, terminal, remote desktop, and experimental remote phone
Stay private — no cloud dependency; all data lives on your machine
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