Changelog — Octopus by BizFirstAi

April 2026 · v0.3.0

Visual Pipeline Designer

Introduced the drag-and-drop pipeline builder, allowing teams to compose multi-agent flows without writing code. This release also ships ANCP v2 with improved agent discovery and mesh routing, plus native support for the DeepSeek provider family (DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1).

Drag-and-drop Pipeline Builder

Build multi-agent pipelines visually with a node canvas. Connect agents, set routing rules, and configure fallbacks — no SDK knowledge required.

ANCP v2 Agent Discovery

Agents now broadcast capability manifests to the mesh on startup. Peer agents can discover and route to each other without manual configuration.

DeepSeek Provider Support

First-class support for DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1. Include DeepSeek in fallback chains or use it as a primary provider with full cost tracking.

March 2026 · v0.2.0

Multi-LLM Routing

Introduced intelligent model routing, enabling Octopus to select the best provider per request based on cost, latency, or declared capability. This release also adds fallback chains — so pipelines continue running even when a provider is unavailable — and ships token-level cost attribution for every agent invocation.

Intelligent Model Routing

Configure routing rules by cost, latency, or model capability. Rules evaluate at request time and can be updated without redeployment.

Fallback Chains

Define an ordered list of fallback providers. When a provider fails or rate-limits, Octopus automatically retries via the next in chain.

Token Cost Attribution

Every token consumed by every agent is attributed with provider, model, and cost estimate. Exportable as CSV or available via the Observe API.

February 2026 · v0.1.0

Initial Release

The first public release of Octopus. Ships core agent orchestration with OpenAI and Anthropic provider support, and establishes the foundational audit logging infrastructure that all future governance features build upon.

Core Agent Orchestration

Define, register, and run agents with system prompts, tool definitions, and lifecycle hooks. Full async SDK via BizFirstAi.Octopus NuGet package.

OpenAI & Anthropic Support

First-class provider integrations for OpenAI (GPT-4o series) and Anthropic (Claude 3 series) with unified request/response normalisation.

Basic Audit Logging

All agent calls and their outputs are persisted in the BizFirst Observe store. Queryable via dashboard or API with full prompt and response content.

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