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 skill-native-escalation-routinggit 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-native-escalation-routing)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-native-escalation-routing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-native-escalation-routing/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/skill-native-escalation-routing"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-native-escalation-routing.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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 | $0.00025 | $0.00473 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.00236 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00095 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00047 |
Grade A, and why
skill-native-escalation-routing 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 11d 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.
What it actually says
Native-First Escalation Routing
Use this skill when the user asks for repository initialization, code review, or security review and it is not yet clear whether Claude-native behavior is sufficient or whether Octopus escalation is warranted.
Core Policy
Claude-native first:
/init/review/security-review
Octopus for escalation:
/octo:review/octo:security/octo:debate/octo:multi
Route to Claude-Native First
Prefer Claude-native behavior when all of the following are true:
- the request maps directly to init, review, or security review
- the user did not ask for multiple model opinions
- the user did not ask for Codex, Antigravity, or another provider explicitly
- the task does not require adversarial debate, consensus scoring, or external-provider specialization
Examples:
- "initialize this repo"
- "review my staged changes"
- "security review this auth module"
Escalate to Octopus
Escalate when the user asks for or clearly benefits from:
- multiple model opinions
- adversarial review
- debate between providers
- provider-specific analysis
- autonomous codegen verification
- elevated rigor for complex or high-risk work
Examples:
- "get multiple model opinions on this PR"
- "have Codex and Antigravity review this architecture"
- "do an adversarial security review"
- "verify this AI-generated implementation before merge"
Execution Guidance
- If Claude-native is sufficient, do not wrap the task in Octopus unnecessarily.
- If the user explicitly invokes
/octo:reviewor/octo:security, treat that as an escalation request. - If the request is ambiguous, prefer Claude-native first and mention Octopus as the escalation path.
Suggested User Framing
Use wording like:
Claude-native first, Octopus for escalation. Use Claude-native
/reviewor/security-reviewfor ordinary requests. Use Octopus when you want multiple model opinions, adversarial review, or stricter multi-LLM workflows.
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.
- 11d ago First seen · 70 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 33c78e1fab93
skill-native-escalation-routing is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,061 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 473 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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