octo-extract

octo-extract is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 24 tokens per session (11,986 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reverse-engineering workflow that extracts design tokens, reusable components, architecture, and product requirements from codebases or live products.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a product or codebase and produce a design-system inventory, component understanding, architecture notes, or product requirements.
Why use it?
It helps you understand an existing product's visual system and structure before rebuilding or documenting it.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also a Cursor plugin manifest. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument; mentions Codex.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the octo plugin — 70 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to inspect a product or codebase and produce a design-system inventory, component understanding, architecture notes, or product requirements.

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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.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add nyldn/claude-octopus
Claude Code
/plugin install octo

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Or install octo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks.

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 11,986 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 $0.00024 $0.11986
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.05993
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.02397
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.01199

Measured 7d ago against content hash 94a346536ad3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octo-extract 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 7d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.cursor-plugin/commands/octo-extract.md · 1,544 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 1,544 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/octo:extract - Design System & Product Reverse-Engineering

Your first output line MUST be: 🐙 Octopus Extract

🤖 INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLAUDE

When the user invokes this command (e.g., /octo:extract <target> or /octo:extract <target>):

Step 0: PDF Page Selection (if target is PDF)

CRITICAL: For PDF files > 10 pages, ask user which pages to extract:

// Check if target is a PDF file
if (target.endsWith('.pdf') && isFile(target)) {
  // Use Claude Octopus PDF page selection utility
  const pageCount = await getPdfPageCount(target);

  if (pageCount > 10) {
    console.log(`📄 Large PDF detected: ${pageCount} pages`);
    console.log(`Reading all pages may use ${pageCount * 750} tokens (~${Math.ceil(pageCount/133)} API calls).`);

    const selection = await AskUserQuestion({
      questions: [{
        question: `This PDF has ${pageCount} pages. Which pages would you like to extract?`,
        header: "PDF Pages",
        multiSelect: false,
        options: [
          {label: "First 10 pages", description: "Quick overview (pages 1-10)"},
          {label: "Specific pages", description: "Enter custom page range"},
          {label: "All pages", description: `Full document (~${Math.ceil(pageCount/133)} API calls)`}
        ]
      }]
    });

    let pageParam = "";
    if (selection === "First 10 pages") {
      pageParam = "1-10";
    } else if (selection === "Specific pages") {
      pageParam = await askForInput("Enter page range (e.g., 1-5, 10, 15-20):");
    }
    // else "All pages" - use empty string

    // Store for use in extraction phases
    target = { path: target, pages: pageParam };
    console.log(`✓ Will extract pages: ${pageParam || 'all'}`);
  }
}

Example output:

📄 Large PDF detected: 45 pages
Reading all pages may use 33,750 tokens (~34 API calls).

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ This PDF has 45 pages. Which pages would you like to   │
│ extract?                                                 │
│                                                          │
│ ● First 10 pages                                        │
│   Quick overview (pages 1-10)                           │
│                                                          │
│ ○ Specific pages                                        │
│   Enter custom page range                               │
│                                                          │
│ ○ All pages                                             │
│   Full document (~34 API calls)                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

✓ Will extract pages: 1-10

Read the full file on GitHub · 1,544 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. 7d ago First seen · 1,544 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 94a346536ad3

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octo-extract is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,061 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 11,986 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.