octo

🐙 Claude Octopus

Every AI model has blind spots. Claude Octopus supports ten external provider integrations — Codex, Gemini, Antigravity CLI, Copilot, Qwen, Ollama, Perplexity, OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Grok — alongside the built-in Claude Code host, with consensus gates that flag disagreements before you ship.

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 ten external providers checking the host'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 and agentmemory 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), 50 commands (slash commands you type), 58 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. Adds up to ten external provider integrations. Zero external providers are needed to start. Add them one at a time — each activates automatically when detected.

💰 Five providers cost nothing extra when you already have access. Codex, Gemini, Antigravity CLI, and Copilot use existing subscriptions or local auth. Ollama runs locally for free. Qwen now requires API-key or Coding-Plan auth; its free OAuth tier ended on 2026-04-15.

What's New

🆕 v9.50 — Claude Code 2026 compatibility layer. Routine manifest for scheduled and GitHub-event automations, a SubagentStop quality/cost gate, /octo:usage per-provider cost attribution in Claude Code's /usage schema, a worktree.bgIsolation opt-out for fast direct-edit runs, a Claude Agent SDK seat (CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY, Opus 4.8, 1M context), a four-skill starter pack, and a /plugin browse manifest with projected context cost.

/octo:usage --format table        # who spent what, per provider/skill/MCP server
OCTOPUS_WORKTREE_BG_ISOLATION=false   # skip worktree cloning for fast runs

🆕 v9.41 — Multi-LLM Council. /octo:council runs a structured 3/5/7-persona deliberation across Claude, Codex, Gemini, and OpenCode with goal modes (advice, decision, plan, implement, review), styles (balanced, adversarial, red-team, executive, implementation), benchmark-aware role routing, quorum + critical-veto gates, budget caps, and gated worktree handoff for approved plans. Use it when one model's opinion isn't enough.

/octo:council --goal decision --style adversarial "Should this service stay monolithic?"
/octo:council --goal implement --implement plan-only "Refactor the auth flow"