Octopus Protocol: One-Shot Hardware Discovery and Control for AI Agents via Infrastructure-as-Prompts

The `Octopus framework` achieves “one-time” discovery and control of hardware devices through a programmable agent rather than pre-integrated drivers. After obtaining Shell access rights and model API keys, the framework only requires one startup command to drive the agent through a five-step process: enumerating hardware visible to the operating system, inferring device identity and capabilities, generating Model Context Protocol tools and underlying code with types, and activating them as real-time endpoints. Subsequently, the persistent daemon maintains the running results and repairs fault categories defined during deployment. Tests show that the framework was successfully verified on four hosts covering two processor architectures, three operating system families, and two device access paths; the same text specifications could generate available interfaces without modifying or writing manual integration code for each host. Five consecutive runs on reference hosts completed the end-to-end tasks on the first attempt. Additionally, reports demonstrate the resulting capabilities and the unattended repair cycle fault patterns observed during eleven hours of continuous operation.