octo-prd

octo-prd is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,466 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for writing a product requirements document, or PRD: a written description of what a feature should do and who it is for, using multiple AI providers and a scoring framework.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define a feature, clarify its users and scope, research relevant details, and produce an AI-oriented PRD.
Why use it?
It adds clarification, research, and evaluation before the requirements are written, helping turn an idea into a more targeted specification.

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; 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 define a feature, clarify its users and scope, research relevant details, and produce an AI-oriented PRD.

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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 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,466 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 $0.00019 $0.01466
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00733
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00147

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4da06b736b38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octo-prd 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:

  • prd — 97% identical, 7 lines differ
  • octo-prd — 94% identical, 55 lines differ
.cursor-plugin/commands/octo-prd.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MANDATORY COMPLIANCE — DO NOT SKIP

When the user explicitly invokes /octo:prd, you MUST follow the orchestrated PRD workflow below. You are PROHIBITED from writing the PRD directly without the required clarification, research, scoring, and orchestrate.sh steps.

EXECUTION MECHANISM — NON-NEGOTIABLE

You MUST execute this command by calling orchestrate.sh as documented below. You are PROHIBITED from:

  • ❌ Doing the work yourself using only Claude-native tools (Agent, Read, Grep, Write)
  • ❌ Using a single Claude subagent instead of multi-provider dispatch via orchestrate.sh
  • ❌ Skipping orchestrate.sh because "I can do this faster directly"

Multi-LLM orchestration is the purpose of this command. If you execute using only Claude, you've violated the command's contract.

STOP - DO NOT INVOKE /skill OR Skill() AGAIN

This command is already executing. The feature to document is: $ARGUMENTS.feature


PHASE 0: CLARIFICATION (MANDATORY - DO THIS FIRST)

Before writing ANY PRD content, ask the user:

I'll create a PRD for: **$ARGUMENTS.feature**

To make this PRD highly targeted, please answer briefly:

1. **Target Users**: Who will use this? (developers, end-users, admins, agencies?)
2. **Core Problem**: What pain point does this solve? Any metrics on current impact?
3. **Success Criteria**: How will you measure success? (KPIs, adoption rate, time saved?)
4. **Constraints**: Any technical, budget, timeline, or platform constraints?
5. **Existing Context**: Greenfield project or integrating with existing systems?

(Type "skip" to proceed with assumptions, or answer inline)

WAIT for user response before proceeding.


PHASE 1: QUICK RESEARCH (Max 60 seconds)

Check provider availability first:

set -euo pipefail
OCTO_ROOT="${OCTO_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin}}"

# Check if multi-provider research is available
CODEX_AVAILABLE="false"
if command -v codex >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  CODEX_AVAILABLE="true"
fi

AGY_AVAILABLE="false"
if command -v agy >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  AGY_AVAILABLE="true"
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 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 · 171 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 4da06b736b38

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octo-prd is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,061 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,466 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.