octo-debug

octo-debug is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 9 tokens per session (259 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for investigating software problems through a repeatable debugging process, from reproducing the issue to verifying a fix.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for failing tests, login problems, memory leaks, API errors, timeouts, and other software faults.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork with a sequence for isolating causes, testing explanations, and preventing the same bug from returning.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also a Cursor plugin manifest.

Part of the octo plugin — 69 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for failing tests, login problems, memory leaks, API errors, timeouts, and other software faults.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-debug
About the project

Claude Octopus is an orchestration project that sends research, design, and coding tasks to Claude Code and other AI model providers so their results can be compared. Developers use it for multi-model work, disagreement detection, reviews, persistent context, and an optional workflow that moves from discovery through delivery. The catalogue entries are its commands, skills, agents, instructions, hooks, plugins, and settings.

nyldn/claude-octopus · 4,054 stars · on GitHub · reddit.com

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/nyldn/claude-octopus

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install octo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for octo-debug

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-debug.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-debug)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-debug"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-debug.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 259 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 $0.00009 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00026

Measured today against content hash db7fa66ec6f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octo-debug 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 today.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • debug — 92% identical, 3 lines differ
  • octo-debug — 86% identical, 3 lines differ
.cursor-plugin/commands/octo-debug.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Octopus debug

Load skills/blocks/engineering-method-selection.md from the installed plugin and apply only the methods relevant to this task. Preserve this entry point's execution contract and output format. Read referenced skills as instructions; do not invoke the current command recursively or add provider calls from a seat.

Load and follow ${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/.claude/skills/skill-debug/SKILL.md and its literal skills/blocks/debug-feedback-loop.md reference.

Treat --peer-review as an instruction to request one bounded independent review through existing Octopus routing. Never interpolate the flag or user text into a shell command. Natural-language independent-review requests have the same meaning. Otherwise run on the current host with zero additional provider dispatches unless an existing escalation policy both requires and permits review under the effective preferences and billing limits. Risk alone does not authorize a paid call; honor explicit host-only requests.

Finish with the structured reproduction record. complete requires the original scenario to pass and temporary instrumentation to be removed. Use inconclusive when the required environment was unavailable.

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. today Changed · -20 lines · +1 tokens per session db7fa66ec6f6
  2. 4d ago First seen · 48 lines · 8 tokens per session scan A 37462a7b7bf7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

octo-debug is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,054 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 259 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-09-03.