Shared instructions for using the Octo command-line tool, which is a program that accesses Octo services such as messaging, files, bots, and documents.

Setting up authentication, choosing the correct command format, parsing response data, and handling common Octo CLI limitations.

It reduces mistakes with login tokens, API responses, command options, and error handling when using Octo commands.

octo-shared — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by Mininglamp-OSS

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent

npx skills add Mininglamp-OSS/octo-cli --skill octo-shared

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Mininglamp-OSS/octo-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,989 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00042	$0.02989
Opus 5	$0.00021	$0.01494
Sonnet 5	$0.00008	$0.00598
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00299

Measured 9d ago against content hash 3bde2402b8ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octo-shared 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 9d 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.

skills/octo-shared/SKILL.md · 226 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 226 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

octo-shared — CLI fundamentals for AI Agents

octo-cli is a thin REST client that exposes the Octo ecosystem (matters, messaging, groups, threads, files, bot, events, docs, html) as a single binary. Every service command is auto-generated from an embedded OpenAPI registry; output is a JSON envelope designed to be parsed by agents.

The matter domain is temporarily withheld while its backend API stabilizes — octo-cli matter ... is not registered and the octo-matter skill is not listed. Do not emit matter commands until it is re-enabled. The examples below use other domains.

1. Authentication

Bots authenticate with a bearer token. There is no interactive user login — but besides the two bot tokens (app_*, bf_*) there is a third kind, a user API key (uk_*), which carries a real person's identity and is used mainly for message search. Two ways to supply any of them:

Stored profile (recommended). A human (or provisioning step) logs the token in once; it is encrypted at rest under ~/.octo-cli, and the raw token never appears in any command line, shell history, or transcript afterward:

# Operator setup (token read from a hidden prompt, or --with-token < file):
octo-cli auth login --bot-id cli_xxxxxxxx          # robot id you got when creating the bot
echo "$TOKEN" | octo-cli auth login --bot-id cli_xxxxxxxx --with-token   # non-interactive

# A user API key (uk_) is stored the same way — encrypted profile, bot_kind shows
# user_key. Use a friendly --profile name since it has no robot id:
echo "$UK_TOKEN" | octo-cli auth login --profile alice-search --with-token

Then, at runtime, select which bot to act as — the agent passes its own robot id, which it knows:

octo-cli --bot-id cli_xxxxxxxx matter list         # or env OCTO_BOT_ID=cli_xxxxxxxx
octo-cli --profile myname matter list              # or by the friendly profile name

With exactly one stored profile, the selector is optional. With two or more, you must pass --bot-id or --profile — omitting it is a hard error (the CLI never guesses which identity to use).

Read the full file on GitHub · 226 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.

9d ago First seen · 226 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3bde2402b8ee

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octo-shared is a skill published in the GitHub repository Mininglamp-OSS/octo-cli (734 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 2,989 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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