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Claude Octopus Setup Guide: Make AI Models Challenge Your Code

Install Claude Octopus, run a focused council, and use practical prompts for building, code review and security checks.

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Claude Octopus brings additional model perspectives into a Claude Code workflow. This guide walks you through installing it, checking which providers are available, and giving the council a concrete decision to challenge. Then you can use focused prompts for a build, a code review and a security pass.

The useful part of AI disagreement is the evidence it produces: a missed requirement, a failing test or a design tradeoff you can act on. More opinions alone do not establish a tenfold improvement. Judge the result against the same acceptance criteria you would use for any other implementation.

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Unlocks: Install and check the setup · Make the council decide something specific · Turn the decision into a bounded build · Review the implementation against the promise · Give the security pass a real boundary · +4 more

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