Tencent Cloud open-sources Octop, a self-hosted multi-agent AI assistant platform

Tencent Cloud has open-sourced Octop, a self-hosted multi-agent AI assistant platform aimed at families and small teams, with multi-user accounts and data kept on the user's own machine. The full text describes it as a single Python process that bundles the backend, web dashboard, CLI, IM gateway, cron jobs, and multi-agent runtime, with state rebuilt from SQLite on restart.