synthetic-lab/octofriend

Octo is a small, helpful, zero-telemetry, cephalopod-flavored coding assistant. Octo is your friend.

Octo is a small, helpful, cephalopod-flavored coding assistant that works with any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible LLM API, and allows you to switch models at will mid-conversation when a particular model gets stuck. Octo can optionally use (and we recommend using) ML models we custom-trained and open-sourced (1, 2) to automatically handle tool call and code edit failures from the main coding models you're working with: the autofix models work with any coding LLM. Octo works great with Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-5.3, and Claude 4.6 (although pretty much any agentic coding model will work). Octo wants to help you because Octo is your friend.

Octo has zero telemetry. Using Octo with a privacy-focused LLM provider (may we selfishly recommend Synthetic?) means your code stays yours. But you can also use it with any OpenAI-compatible API provider, with Anthropic, or with local LLMs you run on your own machine.