Octop is a self-hosted, multi-user AI assistant that runs multiple specialized agents and connects them to chat interfaces, tools, and external services. It is for individuals, families, and teams who want a locally operated assistant with shared experts and persistent capabilities. Catalogue add-ons extend its agent and assistant workflows.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add TencentCloud/Octop --skill newsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TencentCloud/OctopWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tencentcloud/octop/news)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tencentcloud/octop/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tencentcloud/octop/news/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tencentcloud/octop/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tencentcloud/octop/news.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00052 | $0.00683 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00021 | $0.00273 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00137 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00068 |
Grade A, and why
news scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- news — 100% identical, 8 lines differ
What it actually says
新闻参考
当用户询问"最新新闻"、"今天有什么新闻"或"某某类别的新闻"时，使用 browser_use 工具配合以下类别和 URL：打开页面，截取快照，然后从页面内容中提取标题和要点并回复用户。
类别和来源
| 类别 | 来源 | URL |
|---|---|---|
| 政治 | 人民网 · 中国共产党新闻网 | https://cpc.people.com.cn/ |
| 财经 | 中国经济网 | http://www.ce.cn/ |
| 社会 | 中新网 · 社会 | https://www.chinanews.com/society/ |
| 国际 | CGTN | https://www.cgtn.com/ |
| 科技 | 科技日报 | https://www.stdaily.com/ |
| 体育 | 央视体育 | https://sports.cctv.com/ |
| 娱乐 | 新浪娱乐 | https://ent.sina.com.cn/ |
使用方法（browser_use）
- 明确用户需求：确定用户需要哪个或哪些类别（政治 / 财经 / 社会 / 国际 / 科技 / 体育 / 娱乐），或选择 1-2 个进行获取。
- 选择 URL：使用表格中对应类别的 URL；如需多个类别，对每个 URL 重复以下步骤。
- 打开页面：调用 browser_use：
将{"action": "open", "url": "https://www.chinanews.com/society/"}url替换为表格中对应的 URL。 - 截取快照：在同一会话中，再次调用 browser_use：
从返回的页面内容中提取标题、日期和摘要。{"action": "snapshot"} - 总结回复：按时间或重要性组织一个简短列表（标题 + 一两句话 + 来源）；如果网站无法访问或超时，请说明并建议其他来源。
注意事项
- 网站更新时页面结构可能会变化；如果提取失败，请说明并建议用户直接打开链接。
- 访问多个类别时，对每个 URL 分别执行
open和snapshot，避免混淆不同页面的内容。 - 可以在回复中包含原始链接，方便用户打开查看。
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago Changed · +8 lines 9f6b2faad3c1
- 1mo ago First seen · 48 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A c1330e8adea0
news is a skill published in the GitHub repository TencentCloud/Octop (10,862 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 683 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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