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-task-managementgit 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-task-management)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-task-management"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nyldn/claude-octopus/skill-task-management.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 | $0.03724 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00012 | $0.01862 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00005 | $0.00745 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00372 |
Grade A, and why
skill-task-management 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 3d 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.
This is a copy
91% identical to skill-task-management — 49 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 660 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Host: Codex CLI — This skill was designed for Claude Code and adapted for Codex. Cross-reference commands use installed skill names in Codex rather than
/octo:*slash commands. Use the active Codex shell and subagent tools. Do not claim a provider, model, or host subagent is available until the current session exposes it. For host tool equivalents, seeskills/blocks/codex-host-adapter.md.
Task Management & Orchestration (v7.23.0+)
Overview
Systematic task orchestration for multi-step work, progress checkpointing, and seamless task resumption across sessions.
Core principle: Track → Checkpoint → Resume → Complete.
v7.23.0 Migration: This skill now uses native Claude Code host subagent tools:
TaskCreate- Create new tasksTaskUpdate- Update task status/detailsTaskList- View all tasksTaskGet- Get specific task details
Benefits:
- ✅ Tasks show in native Claude Code UI
- ✅ Better progress tracking and visualization
- ✅ Consistent with Claude Code conventions
- ✅ No dependency on external task plan tool tool
When to Use
Use this skill when user wants to:
- Add items to the todo list
- Save current progress for later continuation
- Resume previously saved work
- Checkpoint progress in long-running tasks
- Proceed to next steps in a workflow
- Continue from where they left off
Do NOT use for:
- Creating git commits (use skill-finish-branch)
- Simple todo list queries ("what's on my list?")
- Task completion that involves pushing code
Core Capabilities
1. Adding Tasks to Todo List
When user says "add to the todo's" or similar:
**What would you like to add to the todo list?**
I'll help you capture this task. Please provide:
- Task description (what needs to be done)
- Any dependencies or prerequisites
- Priority (if applicable)
After getting details, use TaskCreate to add:
TaskCreate({
subject: "[Brief task description]",
description: "[Detailed description including dependencies and context]",
activeForm: "Working on [task description]"
})
What ships with it
1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 660 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 4cacdcc7c1ef
skill-task-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,056 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 3,724 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to skill-task-management, differing in 49 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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