flow-discover

flow-discover is a skill for Claude Code from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 0 tokens per session (7,940 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A multi-provider research workflow for the discovery stage of Double Diamond, a design process that first explores a problem broadly before narrowing it down.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run standard or deep discovery research across available AI services and optionally save project workflow state.
Why use it?
It gathers findings from multiple available AI providers and checks their status before combining the usable results, reducing reliance on one source.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents.

Part of the octo plugin — 70 skills, 108 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to run standard or deep discovery research across available AI services and optionally save project workflow state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/flow-discover
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 · 4,300 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.

Any agent
npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill flow-discover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install octo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills, 108 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,940 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 138
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 592
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.07940
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.03176
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.01588
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00794

Measured 25d ago against content hash 5ce2b5f56a24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

flow-discover 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 25d 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.

.claude/skills/flow-discover/SKILL.md · 920 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 920 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{PREAMBLE}}

Compaction-Resistant Contract

  • Dispatch MUST go through background agents that call ${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh probe-single; direct single-model research is not a valid substitute.
  • Use the dynamic fleet from build-fleet.sh; the plugin can route across Codex, Antigravity, Copilot, Qwen, OpenCode, Ollama, Perplexity, OpenRouter, Cursor Agent, and Claude depending on local availability.
  • Before synthesis, run ${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh agent-summary and use only providers reported as ok, degraded, or timeout with usable output.
  • For standard and deep research, require at least 2 usable provider outputs unless fewer providers are installed; failed/rejected providers are reported as gaps, not cited as evidence.

Pre-Discovery: Optional Project Persistence

Workflow state is stored in the host workspace by default. Only create the project-local .octo/ lifecycle artifacts when the user explicitly opts in by setting OCTOPUS_PROJECT_PERSISTENCE=true.

if [[ "${OCTOPUS_PROJECT_PERSISTENCE:-false}" == "true" ]]; then
  if [[ ! -d ".octo" ]]; then
    echo "📁 Initializing opt-in .octo/ project state..."
    if ! "${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/octo-state.sh" init_project; then
      echo "Discover incomplete: could not initialize opt-in project state." >&2
      exit 1
    fi
  fi
  if ! "${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/octo-state.sh" update_state \
      --phase 1 \
      --position "Discovery" \
      --status "in_progress"; then
    echo "Discover incomplete: could not persist in-progress state." >&2
    exit 1
  fi
fi

Native Plan Mode Compatibility (v7.23.0+)

IMPORTANT: claude-octopus workflows are designed to persist across context clearing.

Detecting Native Plan Mode

Check if native plan mode is active:

# Check for native plan mode markers
if [[ -n "${PLAN_MODE_ACTIVE}" ]] || claude-code plan status 2>/dev/null | grep -q "active"; then
    echo "⚠️  Native plan mode detected"
    echo ""
    echo "   Resolve Claude Octopus workflow state with: octopus state-path"
    echo "   State will persist across plan mode context clears"
    echo "   Multi-AI orchestration will continue normally"
    echo ""
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 920 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 25d ago Changed 5ce2b5f56a24
  2. 1mo ago Changed · +24 lines 1de3b8985261
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 896 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 45d01930e297

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flow-discover is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,300 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 7,940 tokens. 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.