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-quicknpx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill skill-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/skill-quick)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-quick"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-quick.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 | $0.00024 | $0.02105 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01052 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00421 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00211 |
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 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- octopus-quick — 88% identical, 28 lines differ
- octopus-quick — 86% identical, 16 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 381 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
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
Usage
Via Command
/octo:quick "add dark mode toggle to settings"
Via Skill Invocation
Use skill: octopus-quick
Task: "fix typo in README.md line 42"
Examples
/octo:quick "update Next.js to v15"
/octo:quick "fix the broken import in auth.ts"
/octo:quick "add error handling to login function"
/octo:quick "remove console.log statements"
Implementation
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 · 381 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A c7c1d447db8e
octopus-quick is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,045 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 2,105 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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