skill-copilot-provider

skill-copilot-provider is a skill for Claude Code from nyldn/claude-octopus. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,175 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A provider that lets the Claude Octopus multi-model system use the GitHub Copilot command-line tool to send prompts to Copilot. It uses an existing GitHub Copilot subscription when available.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for general agent tasks or research-focused prompts through Copilot, subject to the subscription's premium-request quota.
Why use it?
It adds another optional model source without stopping the other providers when Copilot is missing or not signed in.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the octo plugin — 70 skills, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for general agent tasks or research-focused prompts through Copilot, subject to the subscription's premium-request quota.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-copilot-provider
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 · 4,058 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 skill-copilot-provider
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, 106 commands, 10 agents, 18 hooks.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,175 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: 1 finding, 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 Privilege Escalation · line 122
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00024 $0.01175
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00588
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00235
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00118

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9f0d0e3e4adf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-copilot-provider 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 10d 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/skill-copilot-provider/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot Provider Skill

Overview

GitHub Copilot CLI (GA since Feb 2026) serves as an optional provider in the Claude Octopus multi-LLM ecosystem. Integration uses the official copilot -p programmatic mode, not reverse-engineered API endpoints.

Core principle: Copilot supplements existing providers for research and exploration at zero additional cost (uses existing GitHub Copilot subscription). Each prompt counts as one premium request against your subscription quota.

Agent types: copilot (general), copilot-research (research-focused)


Detection

# Check copilot CLI is available
if ! command -v copilot &>/dev/null; then
  # Copilot CLI not installed — silently skip
  return 0
fi

Graceful degradation: When Copilot CLI is unavailable or unauthenticated, silently skip. Other providers continue to operate normally.


Authentication

Copilot CLI checks credentials in this precedence order:

  1. COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN env var (highest priority — fine-grained PAT with "Copilot Requests" permission)
  2. GH_TOKEN env var
  3. GITHUB_TOKEN env var
  4. OAuth token from system keychain (via copilot login)
  5. GitHub CLI (gh) authentication fallback

Setup

Option 1: Interactive login (recommended for local dev)

copilot login

Option 2: Fine-grained PAT (recommended for CI/automation)

  1. Create a fine-grained PAT at https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens/new
  2. Enable the "Copilot Requests" permission
  3. Set the env var:
export COPILOT_GITHUB_TOKEN="github_pat_..."

Option 3: Reuse existing gh auth If gh auth login is already configured, Copilot CLI will use it automatically.

Note: Classic PATs (ghp_*) are NOT supported. Use fine-grained PATs (github_pat_*).


Available Roles

Role Agent Type Use Case
General copilot Broad research, code explanation, exploration
Research copilot-research Research-focused exploration and analysis

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 10d ago First seen · 169 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 9f0d0e3e4adf

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skill-copilot-provider is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,058 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,175 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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