octo-scheduler

octo-scheduler is a command for Claude Code, Cursor from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 15 tokens per session (877 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A command for managing the background service that runs scheduled Claude Octopus workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to start, stop, inspect, or otherwise manage the scheduled-workflow runner.
Why use it?
It provides the supported way to control the scheduler and its state instead of changing scheduler files directly.

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.

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

Good fit Use it to start, stop, inspect, or otherwise manage the scheduled-workflow runner.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/octo-scheduler
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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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 877 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00015 $0.00877
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00439
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash 25669e3d425b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

octo-scheduler scanned grade B with 1 finding 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
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • scheduler — 98% identical, 5 lines differ
.cursor-plugin/commands/octo-scheduler.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scheduler

Manage the Claude Octopus scheduled workflow runner daemon.

MANDATORY COMPLIANCE — DO NOT SKIP

You MUST manage the scheduler only through the installed Octopus scheduler scripts after resolving the plugin root. You are PROHIBITED from:

  • Reimplementing scheduler state changes manually
  • Editing scheduler state files directly
  • Skipping the plugin-root preflight because "I can do this faster directly"

Usage

Preflight — Ensure plugin root is resolvable (run via Bash tool FIRST):

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.

${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/scheduler/octopus-scheduler.sh start
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/scheduler/octopus-scheduler.sh stop
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/scheduler/octopus-scheduler.sh status
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/scheduler/octopus-scheduler.sh emergency-stop

Instructions for Claude

This command supports natural language. The user may invoke it with explicit subcommands OR with conversational requests. You MUST interpret intent and map to the correct action.

Step 1: Parse Intent

Map the user's input to one of these actions:

Intent patterns Action
"start", "run", "launch", "boot up", "turn on" start
"stop", "shut down", "turn off", "kill", "halt" stop
"status", "how is it", "what's running", "check", "is it running", no args status
"emergency", "panic", "abort", "kill everything", "stop all" emergency-stop

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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 · 93 lines · 15 tokens per session scan B 25669e3d425b

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octo-scheduler is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,061 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 877 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.