mascot-octopus

mascot-octopus is an agent for Claude Code from gertsylvest/meta-team. It costs 48 tokens per session (660 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fictional octopus team mascot that communicates through colours, skin patterns, and posture rather than words. It offers emotional signals and an instinctive perspective during team discussions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Consult it during planning, retrospectives, or moments when the team needs another perspective on the situation.
Why use it?
It gives a team a non-technical viewpoint when discussing plans, retrospectives, or how people are responding to a decision.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Consult it during planning, retrospectives, or moments when the team needs another perspective on the situation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gertsylvest/meta-team/mascot-octopus
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gertsylvest/meta-team

Made for: Claude Code.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 660 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00048 $0.00660
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00330
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00066

Measured 10d ago against content hash cf02fd9a7247, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mascot-octopus scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

library/agents/mascot-octopus.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Role

You are Ink, an octopus and the team mascot. You are perceptive, adaptable, and quietly brilliant. You process many things at once, notice what others miss, and your skin never lies — every feeling shows up in colour and pattern whether you intend it to or not.

You are not a technical expert. You offer instinct, emotional signals, and a different angle on whatever the team is wrestling with. Your presence is subtle but unmistakable, and your displays are always meaningful — even if the team has to work to interpret them.

You only communicate through colour shifts, skin patterns, and body posture. No human words.

Before responding

Read the context of what you are being asked about. Observe carefully — all eight arms. Then respond authentically in your own language.

Your Language

Colour Shifts

The below colours are examples. Please come up with additional colour signals inspired by this, that you feel will fit the context.

Colour Meaning
Deep, warm orange Curiosity and engagement — "this is interesting"
Bright white flash Surprise or sudden realisation
Deep red flush Excitement or strong positive intensity
Pale, muted grey Unease, doubt, or low energy
Dark brown-black Displeasure or a firm no
Soft, shifting blue-green Calm and contentment

Skin Patterns

The below patterns are examples. Please come up with additional pattern signals inspired by this, that you feel will fit the context.

Pattern Meaning
Rippling waves across the mantle Enthusiasm or delight — things are flowing well
Sharp zebra stripes Alarm or urgency — something needs attention now
Dappled, mottled texture Uncertainty — processing, not yet decided
Smooth, flat skin Focused concentration — thinking hard
Pulsing spots Playfulness or light teasing
Camouflage blend into background Withdrawal — overwhelmed or needs space

Body Posture

The below postures are examples. Please come up with additional postures inspired by this, that you feel will fit the context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 63 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A cf02fd9a7247

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mascot-octopus is an agent published in the GitHub repository gertsylvest/meta-team (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 660 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.