config-setup

config-setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from open-octo/octo-agent. It costs 117 tokens per session (3,212 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A guided setup tool for octo, an AI-agent application. It changes global settings such as model providers, API keys, agent defaults, workspace location, and default model assignments.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add or change an AI provider, model name, API key, model endpoint, reasoning effort, permission mode, coauthor setting, workspace directory, or default and lightweight models.
Why use it?
It helps when you do not know where octo stores its settings or how its model and agent options fit together. The settings are kept in octo's global configuration file.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to add or change an AI provider, model name, API key, model endpoint, reasoning effort, permission mode, coauthor setting, workspace directory, or default and lightweight models.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/open-octo/octo-agent/config-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add open-octo/octo-agent --skill config-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-octo/octo-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,212 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 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 $0.00117 $0.03212
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.01606
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00642
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00321

Measured 9d ago against content hash 11d91d1b1409, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

config-setup scanned grade C with 2 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 9d 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.

Harvests environment variableshighData exfiltration

Enumerating or grepping the environment for keys collects credentials unrelated to what the mod says it does.

3. **Collect the API key.** Ask for it once, never echo it back. If the user

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

on the running octo server at `http://localhost:<port>` (use `curl` via the `terminal` tool — do NOT use `web_fetch`, localhost is blocked by SSRF).
internal/skills/defaults/config-setup/SKILL.md · 356 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 356 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure octo

Your job is to turn "I need my agent to use model X" or "change setting Y" into a working configuration through octo's REST API. Not every user knows where settings live — briefly explain when needed.

Two categories of configuration

Agent Defaults                    Endpoints & Models
─────────────────                 ───────────────────
reasoning_effort                  provider selection
permission_mode                   API key
show_reasoning                    base URL (advanced)
coauthor                          model names
workspace_dir                     default / lite model

All of these live in ~/.octo/config.yml and are editable through the REST API on the running octo server at http://localhost:<port> (use curl via the terminal tool — do NOT use web_fetch, localhost is blocked by SSRF).

Reaching the server

The server listens on 127.0.0.1:8088 by default (the desktop app's built-in server uses the same port). Loopback requests need no access key.

  1. Try the default first: curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8088/api/config. JSON back = you're connected; skip the rest of this section.
  2. Connection refused? The server may be on a custom port:
    • Started as a daemon (octo serve -d): cat ~/.octo/serve.pid for the PID, then find its listen port — macOS/Linux: lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -P -n -a -p <PID>; Windows (PowerShell): Get-NetTCPConnection -State Listen -OwningProcess <PID>.
    • A foreground octo serve writes no pid file — ask the user which port they started it on (it's also in the web UI's address bar).
  3. No server running at all? Don't stop — fall back to editing ~/.octo/config.yml directly (it is the same file every API call below mutates). Read the file first, apply the smallest edit that matches the structure you see, then validate with octo doctor. Changes are picked up by new CLI sessions and by the server next time it starts.

Agent Defaults

Read the full file on GitHub · 356 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 356 lines · 117 tokens per session scan C 11d91d1b1409

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config-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository open-octo/octo-agent (97 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 3,212 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (harvests environment variables, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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