octo-model-config

octo-model-config is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 9 tokens per session (5,690 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command for configuring which AI provider models are used by Claude Octopus workflows. It checks whether the required plugin setup is available before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose or review provider models, routing, configuration, and cost settings.
Why use it?
It gives you control over model routing and exposes setup problems before a workflow starts.

Command for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also a Cursor plugin manifest. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; 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 choose or review provider models, routing, configuration, and cost settings.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-model-config
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

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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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 5,690 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 $0.00009 $0.05690
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.02845
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.01138
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00569

Measured 5d ago against content hash ec72db65e984, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

octo-model-config 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 5d 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 --connect-timeout 1 --max-time 3 http://localhost:11434/api/tags >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo running || command -v ollama >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installe
.cursor-plugin/commands/octo-model-config.md · 535 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 535 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Model Configuration

Your first output line MUST be: 🐙 Octopus Model Config

STEP 0: Emit Banner (MANDATORY — run before AskUserQuestion or any other step)

echo "🐙 Octopus Model Config"
echo "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━"
echo "provider | model | config | routing | cost"

Preflight — 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.

Run this unconditionally — even when arguments are provided or when going to interactive wizard. The explicit bash block ensures the banner emits even when the command routes straight to AskUserQuestion (which historically skipped the inline-prose instruction and broke E2E pattern matching — see #301).

Interactive model configuration wizard. Detects installed providers, shows current settings, and guides users through configuration with AskUserQuestion.

STEP 1: Detect & Display

Run a SINGLE comprehensive detection command:

echo "=== Provider Detection ==="
printf "codex:%s\n" "$(command -v codex >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed || echo missing)"
printf "perplexity:%s\n" "$([ -n "${PERPLEXITY_API_KEY:-}" ] && echo configured || echo missing)"
printf "openrouter:%s\n" "$([ -n "${OPENROUTER_API_KEY:-}" ] && echo configured || echo missing)"
printf "copilot:%s\n" "$(command -v copilot >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed || echo missing)"
printf "qwen:%s\n" "$(command -v qwen >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed || echo missing)"
printf "kimi:%s\n" "$(command -v kimi >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed || echo missing)"
printf "ollama:%s\n" "$(command -v ollama >/dev/null 2>&1 && curl -sf --connect-timeout 1 --max-time 3 http://localhost:11434/api/tags >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo running || command -v ollama >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed || echo missing)"
printf "opencode:%s\n" "$(command -v opencode >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo installed || echo missing)"
echo "=== Config ==="
if [[ -f ~/.claude-octopus/config/providers.json ]]; then
  cat ~/.claude-octopus/config/providers.json
else
  echo "NO_CONFIG"
fi
echo "=== Env ==="
env | grep -E '^OCTOPUS_|^CLAUDE_MODEL=' 2>/dev/null || echo "none"

Read the full file on GitHub · 535 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. 5d ago Changed · +3 lines ec72db65e984
  2. 6d ago Changed · +11 lines 69250276b2f9
  3. 7d ago First seen · 521 lines · 9 tokens per session scan B 84c0941ca74c

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octo-model-config is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,061 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 5,690 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.