Octop

Octop is an open source, self hosted AI assistant platform that the vendor describes as a digital companion that understands, helps and grows with its user. The site and product are written in Chinese. One server can host many users, so family members or colleagues each get their own assistant that remembers only their own matters. The assistant can take on different expert roles, such as an operations engineer, a news reporter or a parenting helper, without changing environments. It can operate a computer, running terminal commands, opening web pages and filling in forms, and taking screenshots as evidence. It connects to accounts such as Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Notion and email, so a single instruction can file a meeting summary into a document. For software work it hands complex changes to specialist coding agents through ACP, working alongside editors such as Cursor and the command line. A floating desktop pet app for Windows keeps the assistant on screen for quick questions, with other platforms available through a separate download. The target user is an individual or team that wants a private assistant with chat history, files and keys kept on its own machines. Installation is offered by a one line script, pip, Docker or a desktop client, and it can also be used within Tencent Cloud. The project is MIT licensed, so it can be used, changed and redistributed freely. The site publishes no prices and has no pricing page. Its FAQ includes a question about a commercial edition or cloud service, but no plan or cost is listed.