octopus-architecture

octopus-architecture is a skill for Claude Code from CES-Ltd/Lumi. It costs 15 tokens per session (1,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A system-architecture and API-design skill that seeks agreement from multiple AI providers before producing a design. API means the defined way software systems communicate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing a system architecture or API and when you want a multi-AI consensus process.
Why use it?
It helps compare design perspectives and identify architectural decisions that may be missed by one reviewer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the octo plugin — 10 skills, 47 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when designing a system architecture or API and when you want a multi-AI consensus process.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ces-ltd/lumi/octopus-architecture
View source ↗ CES-Ltd/Lumi
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.

Any agent
npx skills add CES-Ltd/Lumi --skill octopus-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CES-Ltd/Lumi

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install octo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 47 commands.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,265 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 $0.00015 $0.01265
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00127

Measured 11d ago against content hash b96de52123b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octopus-architecture 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 11d 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.

resources/seed/octopus/skills/octopus-architecture/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

⚠️ EXECUTION CONTRACT (MANDATORY - CANNOT SKIP)

This skill uses ENFORCED execution mode. You MUST follow this exact sequence.

STEP 1: Display Visual Indicators (MANDATORY - BLOCKING)

MANDATORY: Run the centralized provider check BEFORE displaying the banner:

bash "${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/helpers/check-providers.sh"

Use the ACTUAL results. PROHIBITED: Showing only "🔵 Claude: Available ✓" without listing all providers.

Display this banner BEFORE orchestrate.sh execution (list ALL providers from check output):

🐙 **CLAUDE OCTOPUS ACTIVATED** - Architecture design mode
🏗️ Architecture: [Brief description of system to design]

Provider Availability:
🔴 Codex CLI: [status from check] - Backend architecture patterns
🟡 Gemini CLI: [status from check] - Alternative approaches
🟢 Copilot CLI: [status from check] - GitHub integration
🟣 Qwen CLI: [status from check] - Additional perspective
🟤 OpenCode CLI: [status from check] - Multi-provider routing
🔵 Claude: Available ✓ - Synthesis and recommendations

💰 Estimated Cost: $0.02-0.08
⏱️  Estimated Time: 3-7 minutes

Validation:

  • If ALL external CLI providers unavailable → STOP, suggest: /octo:setup
  • If some unavailable → Continue with available provider(s)
  • If multiple available → Proceed normally

DO NOT PROCEED TO STEP 2 until banner displayed.


STEP 2: Execute orchestrate.sh spawn (MANDATORY - Use Bash Tool)

You MUST execute this command via the Bash tool:

${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh spawn backend-architect "<user's architecture request>"

CRITICAL: You are PROHIBITED from:

  • ❌ Designing architecture directly without calling orchestrate.sh
  • ❌ Using direct analysis as a substitute
  • ❌ Claiming you're "simulating" the workflow
  • ❌ Proceeding to Step 3 without running this command

This is NOT optional. You MUST use the Bash tool to invoke orchestrate.sh.


STEP 3: Verify Execution (MANDATORY - Validation Gate)

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 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. 11d ago First seen · 181 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A b96de52123b7

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octopus-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository CES-Ltd/Lumi (31 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 1,265 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 2026-08-30.

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