Is Claude Octopus safe to use?

Claude Octopus has an HVTrust score of 65.5/100 (Grade B), ranked #59 of 351 tracked AI agent projects. This score reflects verifiable supply-chain integrity, transparency, maintenance, and adoption signals.

What is the trust score for Claude Octopus?

Claude Octopus scores 65.5/100 on HVTracker's evidence-weighted HVTrust scale. It has 4.1k GitHub stars and is categorized under Agent Skills.

Claude Octopus

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Agent Skills Shell Listed MIT

Is Claude Octopus safe? Promising trust profile, but some evidence still deserves review.

OSSF Scorecard 6.6 / 10

Provenance None

Signed commits 100%

Last push today

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In detail: Claude Octopus scores 65.5/100 (Grade B), ranked #59 of 351 tracked open-source AI agent projects, on evidence coverage C (2 of 5 independent signal types). The public evidence: no package-provenance attestation found; OSSF Scorecard rates its supply-chain practices 6.6/10; 100% of recent commits are signed; last pushed 2026-09-26. Every point is earned from checkable signals — never paid placement. How scoring works →

How Claude Octopus compares in Agent Skills

Bars show each HVTrust score; the tick marks Claude Octopus’s 65.5.

Where the 65.5 comes from

HVTrust dimensions vs the Agent Skills average

65.5 / 100 · 100.0% confidence

Claude Octopus Agent Skills average (351 agents)

Safety / Integrity50% OSSF Scorecard · 30% provenance · 20% signed commits

13.2 / 25

5.1 above avg 8.1

Identity / Provenance60% listing status · 40% build provenance

10.8 / 18

0.6 below avg 11.4

Transparency50% declared license · 50% OSSF Scorecard

14.1 / 17

1.9 above avg 12.2

Maintenance60% last-push freshness · 40% commit activity

20.0 / 20

5.8 above avg 14.2

AdoptionLog-scaled stars · package downloads

8.7 / 20

in line with avg 9.0

Quick Trust Read

What Would Improve It

Publish package provenance or release attestations for stronger supply-chain evidence.

Recent Changes

2026-09-25

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → B

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 216 spots (#276 → #60)

2026-09-25

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 22.2pts (43.2 → 65.4)

Maintainer Checklist

Raise Scorecard signals Current OSSF Scorecard is 6.6/10. Tighten the weakest checks to improve public safety evidence.

Publish provenance Add package provenance or release attestations so users can verify where shipped artifacts came from.

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83.6

Activity sub-score · out of 100

#59

In Agent Skills

How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption. Grade B reflects the trust score band: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Evidence coverage C is separate — it grades how many independent signal types back the score (2 of 5), so a high score on thin evidence stays visible. Full methodology →

Rank Trend

2026-08-11 2026-09-26

Activity & Reach

Stars

4.1k

Forks

385

Last Push

2026-09-26

today

Commits (4 wk)

Downloads (7d)

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HN mentions (30d)

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Open Issues

Rank Change

▲1

was #60

Analysis

Activity Inputs

83.6 / 100

StarsRepository reach

21.7 / 30

FreshnessLast push recency

25.0 / 25

ActivityRecent commits

24.9 / 25

CommunityFork signal

12.0 / 20

Supply Chain Trust

Package Provenance

None

No package attestations found

OSSF Scorecard

6.6 / 10

OpenSSF Scorecard · scanned Sep 23, 2026

Signed Commits

100%

of last 100 commits verified

Binary-Artifacts 10

Branch-Protection 3

CI-Tests 10

CII-Best-Practices 0

Code-Review 10

Contributors 10

Dangerous-Workflow 10

Dependency-Update-Tool 10

Fuzzing 0

License 10

Maintained 10

Packaging -1

Pinned-Dependencies 3

SAST 0

Security-Policy 4

Signed-Releases -1

Token-Permissions 0

Vulnerabilities 10

Common questions about Claude Octopus

Claude Octopus has a mixed signal profile. Some trust indicators are present, others are missing. Whether it is safe for your use case depends on which gaps matter to you — review the breakdown below before adopting in production.

Does Claude Octopus publish package provenance?

No published build provenance is currently detected for Claude Octopus. This is common for open-source projects but means consumers cannot independently verify that the package on the registry matches the GitHub source.

Does Claude Octopus have an OpenSSF Scorecard?

Claude Octopus has an OpenSSF Scorecard score of 6.6/10. The Scorecard checks for branch protection, signed releases, dependency updates, fuzzing, code review, and other supply-chain hygiene items. See the full check breakdown on this page.

Is Claude Octopus actively maintained?

Actively maintained. The repository was pushed to within the last 1 day(s).

What license does Claude Octopus use?

Claude Octopus ships under MIT. A declared, OSI-approved license is one of the transparency signals HVTrust scores.

Are Claude Octopus's commits signed?

100% of the last 100 commits to Claude Octopus are verified-signed (GPG, SSH, S/MIME, or GitHub's signing flow). Signed commits help confirm that code was authored by who the commit claims.

Not a safety endorsement. HVTracker describes what public signals show, not whether a project is safe for your use case. Run your own security review before adopting in production.

AI agent surface

MCP, providers, tool surface

Scored in HVTrust

These runtime-trust fields — detected from public repo docs and manifests — contribute a bounded adjustment to this project's HVTrust score alongside supply-chain evidence. The exact values each field can add or subtract are documented in the methodology → Compare this surface across every listed agent in the capability matrix →

MCP Server Support

high confidence

Implemented

Claude Octopus appears to expose MCP server capabilities.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

External Service Dependencies

high confidence

5 detected

Public provider/service dependencies detected.

Credential signal: API keys or service config markers documented.

Tool / Plugin Surface

high confidence

Declared

Declared plugin/integration surface detected.

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

Package Provenance Drift

N/A

No package source configured

Detailed evidence is not shown in the public view.

MCP signal live
External deps live
Tool / plugin surface live
Package provenance drift live

How this surface has changed

Detected changes to Claude Octopus's runtime surface and supply-chain posture, from daily public-signal snapshots. A change here means our detectors see something different — a genuinely changed capability, or better evidence of an existing one.

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Perplexity, xAI Grok

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

2026-09-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: xAI Grok

Maintain Claude Octopus?

For maintainers

HVTrust scores Claude Octopus from public signals only — we never contact maintainers first. If a signal is wrong, stale, or missing (provenance you publish, a Scorecard you run, signed releases), tell us and we'll review it. Corrections are public and tracked on GitHub.

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Reputation Timeline

Signal history

2026-09-25

Grade Changed

Trust grade D → B

2026-09-25

Rank Moved

Rank rose 216 spots (#276 → #60)

2026-09-25

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 22.2pts (43.2 → 65.4)

2026-09-23

Tool Surface Changed

Detected tool/plugin surface changed: none → declared

2026-09-23

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependencies: Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, Perplexity, xAI Grok

2026-09-23

Mcp Status Changed

Detected MCP server support changed: none → implemented

2026-09-23

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 79 spots (#198 → #277)

2026-09-23

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 7.8pts (35.2 → 43.0)

2026-09-22

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #198

2026-09-21

Removed From Active Tracking

Removed from active tracking

2026-09-11

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 10 spots (#261 → #271)

2026-09-05

Provider Added

Runtime surface grew — new detected provider dependency: xAI Grok

2026-09-05

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#216 → #232)

2026-09-02

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#190 → #201)

2026-09-01

Scorecard Added

OSSF Scorecard: 6.4/10

2026-09-01

Rank Moved

Rank rose 98 spots (#288 → #190)

2026-09-01

HVTrust Changed

HVTrust up 23.0pts (20.3 → 43.3)

2026-08-30

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 16 spots (#267 → #283)

2026-08-29

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 17 spots (#250 → #267)

2026-08-28

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 11 spots (#239 → #250)

2026-08-26

Rank Moved

Rank dropped 111 spots (#123 → #234)

2026-08-11

Newly Listed

First tracked at rank #111

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