octo-factory

octo-factory is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 14 tokens per session (2,241 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An orchestrated factory workflow that takes a natural-language specification through repeated agent calls to produce and check an implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build software from a specification when you want a multi-agent implementation pipeline and explicit satisfaction or cost choices.
Why use it?
It structures large development tasks with clarifying questions, multiple implementation steps, and quality targets before work begins.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

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

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

Good fit Use it to build software from a specification when you want a multi-agent implementation pipeline and explicit satisfaction or cost choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-factory
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 · 4,061 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 70 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,241 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 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 $0.00014 $0.02241
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01120
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00448
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00224

Measured 8d ago against content hash cb8ec3021e64, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

octo-factory scanned grade B with 2 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 8d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

helper="$(find "${HOME}/.claude/plugins/cache" "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Claude" "${LOCALAPPDATA:-/dev/null}/Claude" "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-${HOME}/.local/share}/Claude" -maxdepth 8 -path "*/nyldn-plugins/octo/*/sc

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

printf "ollama:%s\n" "$(command -v ollama >/dev/null 2>&1 && curl -sf http://localhost:11434/api/tags >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo available || echo missing)"
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • factory — 97% identical, 6 lines differ
.cursor-plugin/commands/octo-factory.md · 188 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 188 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Factory - Dark Factory Mode (v8.25.0)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLAUDE

MANDATORY COMPLIANCE — DO NOT SKIP

When the user explicitly invokes /octo:factory, you MUST execute the orchestrated factory pipeline below. You are PROHIBITED from replacing the pipeline with a direct Claude-only implementation.

When the user invokes this command (e.g., /octo:factory --spec <path>):

Step 1: Ask Clarifying Questions

CRITICAL: Before starting the factory pipeline, use the AskUserQuestion tool to gather context:

Ask 3 clarifying questions:

  1. Spec path — Where is the NLSpec file? (provide path, or paste inline)
  2. Satisfaction target — Accept spec default, or override? (Use spec default / Custom target 0.80-0.99)
  3. Cost confirmation — Factory mode runs 20-30 agent calls ($0.50-2.00). Proceed? (Yes / Yes with --ci for non-interactive / No)

After receiving answers: validate spec path exists, set overrides, proceed.

Step 1.5: Ensure plugin root is resolvable (run via Bash tool)

OCTO_ROOT="${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin"
if [[ ! -x "$OCTO_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" ]]; then
  helper="$OCTO_ROOT/scripts/helpers/ensure-plugin-root.sh"
  if [[ ! -x "$helper" ]]; then
    helper="$(find "${HOME}/.claude/plugins/cache" "${HOME}/Library/Application Support/Claude" "${LOCALAPPDATA:-/dev/null}/Claude" "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-${HOME}/.local/share}/Claude" -maxdepth 8 -path "*/nyldn-plugins/octo/*/scripts/helpers/ensure-plugin-root.sh" -print -quit 2>/dev/null)"
  fi
  [[ -x "$helper" ]] && bash "$helper" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
fi
test -x "$OCTO_ROOT/scripts/orchestrate.sh" && echo "plugin-root:ok" || echo "plugin-root:missing"

If the output is plugin-root:missing, stop and ask the user to run /octo:setup.

Step 2: Check Provider Availability & Display Banner

Check via bash:

codex_available="Not installed"
if command -v codex >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  codex_available="Available"
fi

MANDATORY: Check provider availability before displaying the banner:

Read the full file on GitHub · 188 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. 8d ago First seen · 188 lines · 14 tokens per session scan B cb8ec3021e64

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octo-factory is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,061 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 2,241 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (reads agent configuration directories, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.