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.
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.
/plugin marketplace add nyldn/claude-octopus/plugin install octoWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/preflight)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/preflight"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/preflight/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/preflight"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/nyldn/claude-octopus/preflight.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00010 | $0.00375 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00187 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00002 | $0.00075 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00001 | $0.00038 |
Grade A, and why
preflight scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
This is a copy
95% identical to octo-preflight — 3 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
What it actually says
Octopus Provider Readiness
Show the shared readiness result for every registered provider. The default is a local-only static check: installation, safe configuration metadata, and known quota state. It does not contact provider services.
OCTO_ROOT="${OCTO_ROOT:-${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin}}"
bash "${OCTO_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/preflight.sh"
When the user explicitly asks to verify live provider health, run the bounded live form:
bash "${OCTO_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/preflight.sh" --live
Both modes consume the Provider Registry 2.0 readiness contract. Do not run
separate binary, authentication, model, quota, or network checks while
rendering the result. Use reason_code and remediation from the shared
objects when explaining a provider that needs attention.
Use this before /octo:embrace, /octo:research, or /octo:council to confirm provider readiness and avoid mid-workflow surprises.
Common issues:
Ollamarequests a live check → rerun with--live; start it withollama serveif the server is stoppedCodex CLIunavailable → runcodex loginornpm install -g @openai/codexAntigravity CLIunavailable → verifyagyis on PATH, then launch plainagyand complete its browser sign-in or reinstall Antigravity CLI
Run /octo:setup to install or configure any missing provider.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 39 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A f893464fe0a2
preflight is a command published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,062 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 375 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 95% identical to octo-preflight, differing in 3 lines, and is treated as a copy.
Other commands, from other repositories
ai-context
Generate, update, or audit AI IDE context files with AGENTS.md as the canonical shared context and tool-specific bridge files. Signal Gate principle — only what agents cannot discover: $ARGUMENTS.
sync
Analyze codebase and populate knowledge-base with conventions, patterns, and technical debt.
checklist
Generate a custom checklist for the current feature based on user requirements.
clarify
Identify underspecified areas in the current feature spec by asking up to 5 highly targeted clarification questions and encoding answers back into the spec.
specify
Create or update the feature specification from a natural language feature description.
converge
Assess the current codebase against the feature's spec, plan, and tasks, then append any remaining unbuilt work as new tasks to tasks.md so implement can complete it.