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
This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.
/plugin marketplace add nyldn/claude-octopus/plugin install octoWrote 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-parallel-agents)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-parallel-agents"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-parallel-agents.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 | $0.00026 | $0.06253 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00013 | $0.03127 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.01251 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00625 |
Grade A, and why
skill-parallel-agents 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 675 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Claude Octopus - Multi-Tentacled Orchestrator
MANDATORY COMPLIANCE — DO NOT SKIP
When this skill is invoked, you MUST dispatch work to multiple providers in parallel. You are PROHIBITED from:
- Running tasks sequentially with a single model instead of parallel multi-provider dispatch
- Skipping orchestrate.sh and doing the work directly
- Deciding the task is "simple enough" for a single provider
- Substituting serial Claude-only execution for multi-LLM parallel execution
This skill exists specifically for multi-provider parallel work. If you catch yourself thinking "I'll just do this myself" — STOP.
Multi-tentacled orchestrator for Claude Code - using Double Diamond methodology for comprehensive problem exploration, consensus building, and validated delivery.
DISCOVER DEFINE DEVELOP DELIVER
(probe) (grasp) (tangle) (ink)
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Diverge then Converge to Diverge with Converge to
converge problem solutions delivery
Quick Start
Note for Claude Code users: You don't need to run these commands! Just talk naturally to Claude:
- "Research OAuth authentication patterns"
- "Build a user authentication system"
- "Review this code for security issues"
The commands below are for direct CLI usage or automation.
# Full Double Diamond workflow (all 4 phases)
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh embrace "Build a user authentication system"
# Individual phases
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh probe "Research authentication best practices"
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh grasp "Define auth requirements"
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh tangle "Implement auth feature"
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh ink "Validate and deliver auth implementation"
# Crossfire: Adversarial cross-model review
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh grapple "implement password reset API"
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh grapple --principles security "implement JWT auth"
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh squeeze "review auth.ts for vulnerabilities"
# Smart auto-routing (detects intent automatically)
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh auto "research OAuth patterns" # -> probe
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh auto "build user login" # -> tangle + ink
${HOME}/.claude-octopus/plugin/scripts/orchestrate.sh auto "review the auth code" # -> ink
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 Changed · -131 lines cbb31f51598a
- 8d ago First seen · 806 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 712a768d5044
skill-parallel-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,054 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 6,253 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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