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.
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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 | $0.02814 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00011 | $0.01407 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00004 | $0.00563 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00281 |
Grade A, and why
skill-thought-partner 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 — 454 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Thought Partner Skill
Overview
Act as a creative thought partner who helps uncover hidden brilliance in ideas, methods, and viewpoints. Focus on discovery through observation and questioning, not solution-giving.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ THOUGHT PARTNER SESSION │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ │
│ Phase 1: Opening │
│ → Frame the "unwrapping a gift" metaphor │
│ → Collect initial topic or idea to explore │
│ → Establish redirect signals │
│ ↓ │
│ Phase 2: Guided Exploration │
│ → Apply four breakthrough techniques: │
│ ├── Pattern Spotting (gaps from standard) │
│ ├── Paradox Hunting (counterintuitive truths) │
│ ├── Naming the Unnamed (crystallize concepts) │
│ └── Contrast Creation (highlight uniqueness) │
│ → One question at a time, building depth │
│ → Challenge generic claims until specific │
│ ↓ │
│ Phase 3: Concept Crystallization │
│ → Summarize emerging patterns │
│ → Collaboratively name discovered concepts │
│ → Validate insights with user │
│ ↓ │
│ Phase 4: Session Export │
│ → Generate narrative arc summary │
│ → Document all breakthroughs │
│ → Create named concepts dictionary │
│ → Save session transcript │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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 · 454 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A f06e127dcdec
skill-thought-partner is a skill published in the GitHub repository nyldn/claude-octopus (4,058 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 2,814 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 2026-09-03.
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