octopus-review

octopus-review is a skill for Claude Code from octopusreview/octopus-plugin. It costs 46 tokens per session (356 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for using Octopus, an AI code-review service, to inspect code changes and answer questions about the code or earlier reviews.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before opening a pull request, when checking changes for security or design problems, or when asking about a previous review.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a defined way to request reviews and discuss the results with Octopus.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the octopus-review plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it before opening a pull request, when checking changes for security or design problems, or when asking about a previous review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/octopusreview/octopus-plugin/octopus-review
Install

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.

Any agent
npx skills add octopusreview/octopus-plugin --skill octopus-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/octopusreview/octopus-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install octopus-review, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 356 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00046 $0.00356
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00178
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00036

Measured 11d ago against content hash ff96af63a76a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

octopus-review 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.

plugins/octopus-review/skills/octopus-review/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Octopus code review

Octopus (octopus-review.ai) is an AI code reviewer that catches security issues, real bugs, and design problems. This skill drives the Octopus MCP tools.

When to use

  • The user asks to "review my changes", "review this", or "have Octopus look at this".
  • Before opening a pull request.
  • The user asks a question about their code or a previous Octopus review.

Setup (first run)

The tools need an Octopus org API token in the plugin config (OCTOPUS_TOKEN, an oct_... value). If a tool reports the token is missing, tell the user to create one with npx @octp/cli login (or from their octopus-review.ai settings) and add it to the plugin's config. Run octopus_status to confirm the connection and which organization it points at.

Reviewing changes

Prefer letting Octopus read the diff itself: call octopus_review_changes with repoPath set to the repository root, and it runs git diff for you (working changes, then staged). If you already have a specific unified diff, pass it as diff instead. Present the findings grouped by severity and offer to fix the highest-severity ones.

Answering questions

Use octopus_ask for questions about the codebase or past reviews. Pass the returned conversationId back on follow-ups to keep context.

Changes

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.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 27 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A ff96af63a76a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

octopus-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository octopusreview/octopus-plugin (0 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 356 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.