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Agent skill

Provider Health

by nyldn in nyldn/claude-octopus

Starter: one-screen provider health summary — availability, auth method, version drift, and cost posture for every seatable provider

MITAuto-check passedAI & LLM Engineering

Install Provider Health

skills CLI
$ npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill provider-health -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install nyldn/claude-octopus provider-health --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nyldn/claude-octopus.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/octopus-starter-pack/provider-health .claude/skills/provider-health && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
provider-health
GitHub stars
4.2k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~491 tokens
SKILL.md length
252 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
62
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Starter: one-screen provider health summary — availability, auth method, version drift, and cost posture for every seatable provider

  • Works in 4 steps: Detect. Run… → Summarize per provider. For each seat… → Flag problems, ranked. Expired auth… → …
  • AI & LLM Engineering work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers When to use, Steps, Output shape and Guardrails
  • Calls opencode; needs CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY

What it does

Provider Health is an agent skill from nyldn/claude-octopus. Starter: one-screen provider health summary — availability, auth method, version drift, and cost posture for every seatable provider

Its SKILL.md is about 490 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files (for example `agents/openai.yaml`).

It sits in AI & LLM Engineering. It works with Anthropic API. The repository describes itself as: Run multiple AI models against the same research, design, or coding task. Surface disagreements before you ship. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • AI & LLM Engineering work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/provider-health”

Requirements

  • A credential in CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Detect. Run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-providers.sh and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-versions.sh.
  2. Summarize per provider. For each seat report: available or not, auth method (env key, oauth session, subscription), and the model it would…
  3. Flag problems, ranked. Expired auth first (breaks dispatch), then version drift (behavior skew), then missing optional providers (reduced…
  4. State the cost posture. Split the roster into included (Claude, agy, copilot, ollama, cursor-agent) versus billed (codex, perplexity…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c812f5e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • opencode

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

    • CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Provider Health loads about 491 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 37 tokens; SKILL.md has 252 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~37
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~491

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from nyldn/claude-octopus at commit c812f5e, republished under its MIT licence (© nyldn). 252 words, ~491 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/provider-health/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
provider-health
description
Starter: one-screen provider health summary — availability, auth method, version drift, and cost posture for every seatable provider
disable-model-invocation
true

Provider Health Check Summary (Starter Pack)

Produce a one-screen health summary of every provider Octopus can seat, so the user knows what a workflow will actually dispatch to before spending money.

When to use

The user asks "what providers do I have?", a workflow banner showed (unavailable - skipping), or a session is starting on a new machine.

Steps

  1. Detect. Run ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-providers.sh and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-versions.sh.
  2. Summarize per provider. For each seat report: available or not, auth method (env key, oauth session, subscription), and the model it would resolve to today. Include the claude-sdk seat when CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY is set (Agent SDK, Opus 5 by default, 1M context). Flag Claude Code older than v2.1.280 for Opus 5.5, older than v2.1.219 for Opus 5, and Codex CLI older than v0.144.0 for GPT-5.6.
  3. Flag problems, ranked. Expired auth first (breaks dispatch), then version drift (behavior skew), then missing optional providers (reduced diversity). One line each with the exact fix command (grok login, opencode auth login, key export).
  4. State the cost posture. Split the roster into included (Claude, agy, copilot, ollama, cursor-agent) versus billed (codex, perplexity, grok, openrouter, atlascloud, claude-sdk) so the user can predict what a multi-provider workflow costs before running it.

Output shape

A single table, one row per provider, columns: Provider, Status, Auth, Model, Cost. Below it, at most three ranked fix-it lines. No prose beyond that.

Guardrails

  • Report only what the detection scripts return this session. A provider that worked yesterday but fails detection now is DOWN; do not soften it.

© nyldn, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in skills/octopus-starter-pack/provider-health of nyldn/claude-octopus.

  • SKILL.md
  • agents/openai.yaml

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c812f5e

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in nyldn/claude-octopus, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Provider Health

What does Provider Health do?

Starter: one-screen provider health summary — availability, auth method, version drift, and cost posture for every seatable provider. Provider Health is an agent skill from nyldn/claude-octopus.

When should I use Provider Health?

Provider Health fits situations like: AI & LLM Engineering work in your project.

How do I install Provider Health in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill provider-health -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/octopus-starter-pack/provider-health in nyldn/claude-octopus) into .claude/skills/provider-health in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Provider Health in Codex?

Run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill provider-health -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/octopus-starter-pack/provider-health in nyldn/claude-octopus) into .agents/skills/provider-health in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Provider Health in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add nyldn/claude-octopus --skill provider-health -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/provider-health, .gemini/skills/provider-health, .github/skills/provider-health and .opencode/skills/provider-health in your project.

What does Provider Health need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Provider Health needs the command-line tools its instructions call (opencode) and credentials named CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY. Our summary lists: A credential in CLAUDE_SDK_API_KEY.

Does Provider Health access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Provider Health safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Provider Health use?

Provider Health is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Provider Health use?

About 491 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Provider Health?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Provider Health: Bidirectional Differential (jszmajda/lid, 107 stars), Claude API (terrense/LilBot-agent, 121 stars), Darwinian Evolver (Luciole-Studio/Misaka-Agent, 171 stars) and Token Optimization (cwinvestments/memstack, 423 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Provider Health?

nyldn (a GitHub user) maintains it in nyldn/claude-octopus, which has 4,200 GitHub stars. The repository holds 62 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 11, 2026.

Source: nyldn/claude-octopus on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.