🐙 Claude Octopus
Every AI model has blind spots. Claude Octopus puts up to eight of them on every task, so blind spots surface before you ship — not after. It orchestrates Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Qwen, Ollama, Perplexity, and OpenRouter alongside Claude Code, with consensus gates that flag any disagreements.
🐙 Research, build, review, and ship — with eight AI providers checking each other's work. Say what you need, and the right workflow runs. A 75% consensus gate catches disagreements before they reach production. No single model's blind spots slip through.
🧠 Remembers across sessions. Integrates with claude-mem for persistent memory — past decisions, research, and context survive session boundaries.
⚡ Spec in, software out. Dark Factory mode takes a spec and autonomously runs the full pipeline — research, define, develop, deliver. You review the output, not every step.
🔄 Four-phase methodology, not just tools. Every task moves through Discover → Define → Develop → Deliver, with quality gates between phases. Other orchestrators give you infrastructure. Octopus gives you the workflows.
🐙 32 specialized personas (role-specific AI agents like security-auditor, backend-architect), 49 commands (slash commands you type), 51 skills (reusable workflow modules). Say "audit my API" and the right expert activates. Don't know the command? The smart router figures it out.
🐙 Works with just Claude. Scales to eight. Zero providers needed to start. Add them one at a time — each activates automatically when detected.
💰 Five providers cost nothing extra. Codex and Gemini use OAuth (included with subscriptions). Qwen has 1,000-2,000 free requests/day. Copilot uses your GitHub subscription. Ollama runs locally for free.
What's New
| Version | Best Features |
|---|
| v9 (current) | Up to 8 providers (Codex, Gemini, Copilot, Qwen, Ollama, Perplexity, OpenRouter, OpenCode). Four-way AI debates. Smart router — just say what you need. Discipline mode with 8 auto-invoke gates. Two-stage review. Circuit breakers with automatic provider recovery. Cursor + OpenCode + Codex cross-compatibility. Token compression: bin/octo-compress pipe + auto PostToolUse hook save ~7,300 tokens/session. PostCompact context recovery. bin/octopus CLI. 122 CC feature flags through v2.1.91. |
| v8 | Multi-LLM code review with inline PR comments. Parallel workstreams in isolated git worktrees. Reaction engine — auto-responds to CI failures. 32 specialized personas. Dark Factory autonomous pipeline. |
| v7 | Double Diamond workflow. Multi-provider dispatch. Quality gates and consensus scoring. Configurable sandbox modes. |
Full changelog →
Quickstart
# Terminal (not inside a Claude Code session):
claude plugin marketplace add https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus.git
claude plugin install octo@nyldn-plugins
# Then inside Claude Code:
/octo:setup
That's it. Setup detects installed providers, shows what's missing, and walks you through configuration. You need zero external providers to start — Claude is built in.
Install for Codex CLI
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus.git ~/.codex/claude-octopus && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && ln -sf ~/.codex/claude-octopus/skills ~/.agents/skills/claude-octopus
Restart Codex. Skills appear automatically — invoke with $skill-doctor, $skill-debug, etc.
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