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The Octop assistant chat interface with suggestion cards

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Run a private AI assistant with a team of specialized agents for your household

Octop is a self-hosted AI assistant that runs entirely on your own machine and gives each person in a household or small team their own set of specialized agents to switch between — one for weekly reports, one for scheduling, and so on — while keeping every conversation and credential local.

It is reachable through a web dashboard, a command line, or chat apps like Telegram, Feishu and DingTalk, and it can also delegate coding tasks to tools like Claude Code. A single admin account controls who in the family or team gets access to which agents.

You could use it to…

  • Run a private AI assistant entirely on your own machine
  • Give each family member their own specialized agent
  • Chat with it over Telegram, DingTalk or a web dashboard

Can I use this?

Docker, needs a model key

You'll need A server to self-host it on, and a model provider key · Setup needed

Worth knowing This is self-hosted software you are responsible for running, securing and updating, and while conversations stay local, connecting it to a cloud model provider still sends your text to that provider. MIT licence. BuildTube has not run or verified this software.

Why it's here

Rising fast on GitHub this week

  • 1,301 people starred it on GitHub this week — 6,203 in total.

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Behind it

See the code on GitHub

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