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
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.
npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill octopus-quickgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopusWrote 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/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/octopus-quick)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/octopus-quick"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/octopus-quick/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/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/octopus-quick"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/octopus-quick.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 | $0.00024 | $0.02139 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01069 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00428 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00214 |
Grade A, and why
octopus-quick 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 5d 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
88% identical to octopus-quick — 28 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 367 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Host: Codex CLI — This skill was designed for Claude Code and adapted for Codex. Cross-reference commands use installed skill names in Codex rather than
/octo:*slash commands. Use the active Codex shell and subagent tools. Do not claim a provider, model, or host subagent is available until the current session exposes it. For host tool equivalents, seeskills/blocks/codex-host-adapter.md.
Quick Mode - Lightweight Task Execution ⚡
Fast-track execution for small tasks that don't need full Double Diamond workflow overhead.
When to Use Quick Mode
✅ Use Quick Mode For:
Bug Fixes:
- One-file bug fixes with known solution
- Typo corrections
- Logic error fixes
- Import/export corrections
Configuration Changes:
- Update environment variables
- Modify config files
- Adjust settings
- Update dependencies
Small Refactorings:
- Rename variables/functions
- Extract helper functions
- Simplify logic in single file
- Code cleanup
Documentation:
- Fix typos in README
- Update comments
- Add/update docstrings
- Clarify documentation
Dependency Management:
- Update package versions
- Add new dependency
- Remove unused dependency
❌ Don't Use Quick Mode For:
Complex Work:
- New features
- Architecture changes
- Multi-file refactorings
- Security-sensitive changes
- Performance optimizations requiring research
- Database schema changes
- API contract changes
Use full workflows for complex work to ensure quality.
Execution Flow
Quick mode follows a streamlined process:
User Request → Direct Implementation → Atomic Commit → Summary
What Quick Mode SKIPS:
- ❌ Multi-AI research (probe/discover)
- ❌ Requirements planning (grasp/define)
- ❌ Multi-AI validation (ink/deliver)
- ❌ Plan-checker verification
What Quick Mode KEEPS:
- ✅ State tracking (records in state.json)
- ✅ Atomic commits (git commit with description)
- ✅ Summary generation (stored in .claude-octopus/quick/)
- ✅ Change documentation
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.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 367 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 2d130fdbe754
octopus-quick is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,058 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,139 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to octopus-quick, differing in 28 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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