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🐙 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.

Claude-native first, Octopus for escalation. Use Claude-native /init, /review, and /security-review when Claude is enough. Use Octopus when you want multiple model opinions, adversarial review, or stricter multi-LLM workflows.

🐙 Research, build, review, and ship — with eight AI providers checking each other's work. Say what you need, and the right workflow runs. Claude-native handles the ordinary path; Octopus handles the escalated path. 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), 48 commands (slash commands you type), 52 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.

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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. Agent summary tables show which providers actually contributed. Provider-aware prompt preflight prevents silent oversize failures. Research breadth modes fan out light, standard, or exhaustive investigations. Setup aliases and fuzzy /octo:* corrections reduce command friction. 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. 170+ CC feature flags through v2.1.132.
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.

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