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What is Octop? Octop is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant for households and small teams. One process serves a web dashboard, a CLI, IM channels (Telegram, Discord, Feishu, DingTalk, WeChat and more) and natural-language cron jobs. Each user gets experts with their own workspace, providers and memory, plus a knowledge base, plugins, browser automation, remote desktop and ACP to delegate coding to Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode.

How do I use it? On macOS or Linux run curl -fsSL https://finnie-1258344699.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com/octop/install.sh | bash; then open a new terminal (or source ~/.zshrc) so octop is on your PATH; run the first-run setup wizard with octop init. Full steps below.

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  1. Check you have what it needs: macOS, Linux or Windows; the installer provisions Python 3.12 with uv under ~/.octop/; A multi-core CPU with a few GB of RAM and disk for workspaces and documents; Model provider keys of your choice; optional Playwright Chromium for browser automation.
  2. Open TencentCloud/Octop on GitHub and read the README and license.
  3. On macOS or Linux run curl -fsSL https://finnie-1258344699.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com/octop/install.sh | bash
  4. Open a new terminal (or source ~/.zshrc) so octop is on your PATH
  5. Run the first-run setup wizard with octop init
  6. Start everything with octop run and open the web dashboard

These steps come from our top use case, Self-host one AI assistant for your whole household, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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  • Who it is forSelf-hosters who want one private AI assistant for a family or small team, reachable from chat apps they already use.
  • Why it is hot11k stars, talked about in 3 AI sources we track
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Requirements

  • macOS, Linux or Windows; the installer provisions Python 3.12 with uv under ~/.octop/
  • A multi-core CPU with a few GB of RAM and disk for workspaces and documents
  • Model provider keys of your choice; optional Playwright Chromium for browser automation

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Questions about Octop

What is Octop?

Octop is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant for households and small teams. One process serves a web dashboard, a CLI, IM channels (Telegram, Discord, Feishu, DingTalk, WeChat and more) and natural-language cron jobs. Each user gets experts with their own workspace, providers and memory, plus a knowledge base, plugins, browser automation, remote desktop and ACP to delegate coding to Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/TencentCloud/Octop.

How do I use Octop?

On macOS or Linux run curl -fsSL https://finnie-1258344699.cos.ap-guangzhou.myqcloud.com/octop/install.sh | bash; then open a new terminal (or source ~/.zshrc) so octop is on your PATH; run the first-run setup wizard with octop init. The use cases on this page give the full steps and a copy-paste agent prompt for each job.

Who is Octop for?

Self-hosters who want one private AI assistant for a family or small team, reachable from chat apps they already use.

What can I do with Octop?

3 use cases so far, for example: Self-host one AI assistant for your whole household; Reach your assistant from Telegram and schedule daily jobs in plain language; Delegate coding tasks from Octop chat to Claude Code or Codex over ACP. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.

What do I need to run Octop?

macOS, Linux or Windows; the installer provisions Python 3.12 with uv under ~/.octop/; A multi-core CPU with a few GB of RAM and disk for workspaces and documents; Model provider keys of your choice; optional Playwright Chromium for browser automation.

What are alternatives to Octop?

Other hot AI repos in Personal productivity: Cleanyourtv, Learnharness, Qwen Paw, Cindy, Ironclaw.

Is Octop safe to run?

Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.