About provider-health
provider-health is a health-check skill for Octopus workflows that summarizes provider availability, authentication, resolved models, and cost categories. It also ranks authentication and version issues and gives corresponding fix commands.
Key features
- 01Detect provider availability
- 02Summarize auth methods and current models
- 03Rank issues and provide fix commands
- 04Separate included and billed providers
Use cases
- 01Check providers before starting a workflow on a new machine
- 02Investigate workflows skipping unavailable providers
- 03Review cost categories before a multi-provider workflow
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
npx skills add https:/ / github.com/ nyldn/ claude-octopus --skill provider-healthAfter installing, type/provider-healthin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Bundled filesagents/openai.yaml
Details
From the project READMEProvider 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
- Detect. Run
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-providers.shand${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/helpers/check-versions.sh. - 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_KEYis 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. - 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). - 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.