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 agentmods add skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-knowledge-worknpx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill skill-knowledge-workgit 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/skill-knowledge-work)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-knowledge-work"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-knowledge-work.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00022 | $0.01848 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00924 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00370 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00185 |
Grade A, and why
skill-knowledge-work 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 6d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 232 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Knowledge Work Mode - Context Override Skill
Context Auto-Detection (v7.8+)
Claude Octopus now auto-detects work context! The system analyzes your prompt and project to determine whether you're in a Dev Context (code-focused) or Knowledge Context (research/strategy-focused).
You typically don't need this skill - context is detected automatically when you use:
octo research X- Auto-detects dev vs knowledge researchocto build X- Auto-detects code vs document buildingocto review X- Auto-detects code vs document review
When to Use This Override
Use ONLY when auto-detection is wrong:
- Auto-detection chose Dev but you want Knowledge behavior
- Auto-detection chose Knowledge but you want Dev behavior
- You want to force a specific context for the entire session
Override Commands
Force Knowledge Context
/octo:km on
All subsequent workflows will use Knowledge Context until reset.
Force Dev Context
/octo:km off
All subsequent workflows will use Dev Context until reset.
Return to Auto-Detection
/octo:km auto
Context detection returns to automatic mode.
Check Current Status
/octo:km
Shows current mode (auto, knowledge, or dev).
How Auto-Detection Works
When you use any octo workflow, context is detected by analyzing:
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Prompt Content (strongest signal):
- Knowledge indicators: "market", "ROI", "stakeholders", "strategy", "personas", "presentation", "report", "PRD"
- Dev indicators: "API", "endpoint", "database", "implementation", "code", "function", "deploy"
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Project Type (secondary signal):
- Has
package.json,Cargo.toml,go.mod→ Dev Context - Mostly
.md,.docx,.pdffiles → Knowledge Context
- Has
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Explicit Override (if set via
/octo:km):- Overrides all auto-detection until reset to "auto"
Visual Indicator Shows Context
When workflows run, you'll see the detected context in the banner:
Dev Context:
🐙 **CLAUDE OCTOPUS ACTIVATED** - Multi-provider research mode
🔍 [Dev] Discover Phase: Technical research on caching patterns
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.
- 6d ago First seen · 232 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 2cbbb26107a0
skill-knowledge-work is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,050 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,848 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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