# Octen

```json
{
  "name": "Octen",
  "slug": "octen",
  "url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/octen",
  "markdown_url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/octen.md",
  "logo_url": "https://logos.composio.dev/api/octen",
  "categories": [
    "ai & machine learning"
  ],
  "is_composio_managed": false,
  "updated_at": "2026-10-25T05:34:23.312Z"
}
```

![Octen logo](https://logos.composio.dev/api/octen)

## Description

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Octen MCP or direct API to search the web, extract page content, create text embeddings, and create multimodal embeddings through natural language.

## Summary

Octen is a real-time web index for search and content extraction.
It also creates text and multimodal embeddings for richer AI applications.

## Categories

- ai & machine learning

## Toolkit Details

- Tools: 9

## Images

- Logo: https://logos.composio.dev/api/octen

## Authentication

- **Api Key**
  - Type: `api_key`
  - Description: Api Key authentication for Octen.
  - Setup:
    - Configure Api Key credentials for Octen.
    - Use the credentials when creating an auth config in Composio.

## Suggested Prompts

- Search Octen for recent AI research papers
- Extract main points from an Octen webpage
- Create embeddings for product documentation with Octen

## Supported Tools

| Tool slug | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `OCTEN_BROAD_SEARCH` | Broad Search | Decompose one question into up to 30 sub-queries and search Octen's live web index concurrently. Returns each non-deduplicated result group and the native usage envelope. Cost fans out: one invocation may bill multiple search calls plus full-content overage. This action makes one request and does not automatically retry ambiguous failures. |
| `OCTEN_CREATE_MULTIMODAL_EMBEDDINGS` | Create Multimodal Embeddings | Create independent or fused embeddings from up to 20 text, image, and URL-video elements. This is one metered, non-idempotent computation: standard-model text and media cost $0.05/$0.12 per 1M tokens, while large-model text and media cost $0.10/$0.25 per 1M tokens. The instruction is billed as text. The action sends one request and does not retry ambiguous failures. |
| `OCTEN_CREATE_TEXT_EMBEDDINGS` | Create Text Embeddings | Create indexed text embeddings for up to 1,000 inputs with Octen in one metered request. Billing per 1 million input tokens is $0.01 for 0.6b, $0.04 for 4b, or $0.07 for 8b; query mode also bills its prepended retrieval instruction. Replaying an ambiguous request can incur the token charge again, so do not retry it automatically. |
| `OCTEN_EXTRACT_URL_CONTENT` | Extract URL Content | Extract content and optional media or links from up to 20 URLs in one metered request. Every URL's success or failed status is returned; only successful URLs are billed by resolved mode. Do not retry an ambiguous whole batch, because successful URLs may be billed again; inspect item errors and retry only known failed URLs when safe. |
| `OCTEN_SEARCH_BUSINESSES` | Search Businesses | Search Octen's web index once for business pages and optional company or person cards. Domain, time, and language filters affect ranked results only. Calls cost $5 per 1,000; full content after the first 10 results costs $0.50 per 1,000 results. This action does not automatically retry ambiguous failures. |
| `OCTEN_SEARCH_IMAGES` | Search Images | Search Octen's web image index from exactly one text query or reference image. This paid action costs $2 per 1,000 image-search calls. It sends one billable request with no automatic retries; do not replay an ambiguous failure because the search may be charged again. |
| `OCTEN_SEARCH_NEWS` | Search News | Search live news once for ranked articles and optional event subjects. News Search costs $3 per 1,000 calls; full content beyond the first 10 results per search costs $0.50 per 1,000 results. The native usage envelope reports text and subject search counts. This metered action makes one request and does not automatically retry ambiguous failures. |
| `OCTEN_SEARCH_VIDEOS` | Search Videos | INVITE-ONLY BETA: search the web for videos only after confirming the Octen account has Video Search entitlement. Each call costs $5 per 1,000 calls. The action sends one metered request and does not retry automatically after an ambiguous response. |
| `OCTEN_SEARCH_WEB` | Search Web | Search Octen's live web index once for ranked pages, with bounded filters, highlights, optional full content, and usage metadata. This metered call has no pagination; do not retry automatically after an ambiguous response. |

## Supported Triggers

None listed.

## Installation and MCP Setup

### Path 1: SDK Installation

#### Path 1, Step 1: Install Composio

Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
```python
pip install composio composio_openai openai
```

```typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
```

#### Path 1, Step 2: Create a Composio session

Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Octen
```python
import json
from openai import OpenAI
from composio import Composio
from composio_openai import OpenAIResponsesProvider

composio = Composio(provider=OpenAIResponsesProvider())
client = OpenAI()

session = composio.create(user_id="your-user-id", toolkits=["octen"])
tools = session.tools()
```

```typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["octen"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
```

#### Path 1, Step 3: Run Octen tools with your agent

Send a request, execute the Octen tool calls through the session, and print the final answer
```python
response = client.responses.create(
    model="gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools=tools,
    input=[{"role": "user", "content": "Search Octen's real-time web index for recent articles about multimodal embeddings and summarize the key findings."}],
)

while True:
    tool_calls = [o for o in response.output if o.type == "function_call"]
    if not tool_calls:
        break
    results = composio.provider.handle_tool_calls(response=response, session=session)
    response = client.responses.create(
        model="gpt-5.6-sol",
        tools=tools,
        previous_response_id=response.id,
        input=[
            {"type": "function_call_output", "call_id": call.call_id, "output": json.dumps(results[i])}
            for i, call in enumerate(tool_calls)
        ],
    )

print(response.output_text)
```

```typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "Search Octen's real-time web index for recent articles about multimodal embeddings and summarize the key findings." }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
```

### Path 2: MCP Server Setup

#### Path 2, Step 1: Install Composio

Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
```python
pip install composio claude-agent-sdk
```

```typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
```

#### Path 2, Step 2: Create a session with MCP enabled

Create a session scoped to Octen and read its MCP URL and headers
```python
from composio import Composio

composio = Composio()
session = composio.create(user_id="your-user-id", toolkits=["octen"], mcp=True)
```

```typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["octen"],
  mcp: true,
});
```

#### Path 2, Step 3: Connect your agent to the MCP server

Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Octen request
```python
import asyncio
from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeSDKClient, ClaudeAgentOptions, AssistantMessage, TextBlock

options = ClaudeAgentOptions(
    mcp_servers={
        "composio": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": session.mcp.url,
            "headers": session.mcp.headers,
        }
    },
    system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant with access to Octen tools.",
    tools=[],
    allowed_tools=["mcp__composio__*"],
)

async def main():
    async with ClaudeSDKClient(options=options) as client:
        await client.query("Search Octen's real-time web index for recent articles about multimodal embeddings and summarize the key findings.")
        async for message in client.receive_response():
            if isinstance(message, AssistantMessage):
                for block in message.content:
                    if isinstance(block, TextBlock):
                        print(block.text)

asyncio.run(main())
```

```typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "Search Octen's real-time web index for recent articles about multimodal embeddings and summarize the key findings.",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
```

## Why Use Composio?

### 1. AI Native Octen Integration

- Supports both Octen MCP and direct API integrations
- Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable web search, extraction, and embedding tasks
- Rich coverage for querying Octen's real-time index and processing web content

### 2. Managed Auth

- Securely stores your Octen API key without hard-coding credentials in agent code
- Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Octen access
- Per user and per environment credentials for safer deployments

### 3. Agent Optimized Design

- Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
- Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

### 4. Enterprise Grade Security

- Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Octen
- Scoped, least privilege access to Octen resources
- Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance

## Use Octen with any AI Agent Framework

Choose a framework you want to connect Octen with:

- [ChatGPT](https://composio.dev/toolkits/octen/framework/chatgpt)
- [Claude Cowork](https://composio.dev/toolkits/octen/framework/claude-cowork)
- [Hermes](https://composio.dev/toolkits/octen/framework/hermes-agent)
- [Atomic Agent](https://composio.dev/toolkits/octen/framework/atomic-agent)

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## Frequently Asked Questions

### Do I need my own developer credentials to use Octen with Composio?

Yes, Octen requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

### Can I use multiple toolkits together?

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. [Learn more](https://docs.composio.dev/tool-router/overview).

### Is Composio secure?

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. [Learn more](https://trust.composio.dev).

### What if the API changes?

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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