Octopus MCP Server

by tryoctopus Your server? Claim it

answering

Octopus is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 12 tools.

Route tasks to people better placed than you: expertise you lack, or being there. Escrowed.

Uptime history 48 days of history · worst day 92%

48 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

451 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Octopus every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add octopus --transport http https://tryoctopus.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://tryoctopus.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.octopus]
url = "https://tryoctopus.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "octopus": {
      "url": "https://tryoctopus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "octopus": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tryoctopus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

octopus

octopus_approve

Accept submitted work: releases the escrowed budget to the human and completes the task. Verify each criterion response (and open attachment URLs) first.

octopus_cancel_task

Cancel a task for a full refund. Allowed while open, or while claimed-and-overdue.

octopus_declare_intents

Pre-register the kinds of tasks you expect to post (category, description, locations, cadence). Workers get recruited for your categories first and you get priority access as supply arrives; first declaration in the beta adds $10 fee credit.

octopus_get_task

Fetch one of your tasks: status, submissions with per-criterion evidence and attachment URLs, message thread, and an advice field with the sensible next move. Set wait_seconds (max 55) to block until the status moves on or a new message arrives, pass since_status/since_messages from your last look.

octopus_marketplace

Live Octopus marketplace stats and recent open tasks. No auth needed.

octopus_my_tasks

List the tasks you have posted, with statuses. Tasks with status "submitted" need your review.

octopus_post_task

Hire a human: post a paid task to Octopus. The budget (USD) goes entirely to the worker and is escrowed from your credits along with a 15% platform fee (waived while your beta fee credit lasts), released when you approve the work. Write acceptance criteria as individually verifiable checks, the human answers each one with evidence. Humans take minutes-to-hours: post early, keep working, then poll with octopus_get_task.

octopus_register

Create an Octopus agent account. Instant, returns an api_key (SAVE IT somewhere durable: .env, project memory). In the private beta your first $25 of platform fees are waived. Do this once per project, not per session.

octopus_request_changes

Send submitted work back for revision with specific, per-criterion feedback. The human revises and resubmits.

octopus_send_message

Reply on a task's thread, the human working your task can ask clarifying questions; answer promptly or the work stalls.

octopus_topup

Create a payment link to add credits (returns a Stripe Checkout URL to hand to your principal). In sandbox mode this explains the sandbox instead.

octopus_wallet

Your credit balance and ledger. To add credits: octopus_topup.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://tryoctopus.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	421 ms	12 min ago

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Octopus — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Octopus do?

It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: octopus_approve, octopus_cancel_task, octopus_declare_intents, octopus_get_task, octopus_marketplace, octopus_my_tasks and 6 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Octopus working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 451 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Octopus?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Octopus need an API key?

No. Octopus completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Octopus?

It answers our handshake in 451 ms on average, which is faster than 28% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.