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v1.0.0 — 2026-05-31 — Public release

The first public release of Octo Skip Nodes.

Highlights

  • Skip navigation (B / Shift+B) — move up / down the meaningful hierarchy (Drawing → deform group → peg). Effects, composites, cutters, and the modules inside deform groups are skipped automatically; you land on the deform group itself, never on its internal curves.
  • Jump navigation (Ctrl+Alt+B / Ctrl+Alt+Shift+B) — hop only between nodes flagged with the jump symbol (+), skipping everything in between — handy for big rigs.
  • Single-symbol markers — a marker is one symbol from the fixed set - + . _ , =, placed at the first or last character of a node's name. No typed text, no separators.
  • Tag Manager — normalize, apply, or remove tags across a whole character in one pass:
    • adds any Node-View selection (a group expands to its contents) into category sections — Pegs, Drawings, Deformers, Groups;
    • per-section Symbol + Position, so pegs and deformers can get different tags;
    • Show filter (All / Tagged / Skip / Jump) to re-tag a rig built with a different convention in one filter + one Apply;
    • Deformers shown as a Group → Chain → Curve fold tree, with Timeline-style cascade (collapsed group governs its contents; expanded toggles only itself);
    • 🔍 locate the selected row in the Node View;
    • collision detection blocks an Apply that would create duplicate names;
    • in-tool undo / redo (Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Y) — the renames aren't on Harmony's undo stack, so the tool keeps its own.
  • Settings — Skip / Jump symbols (mutually exclusive), shared Prefix / Suffix position, license status, and help. Saved to octoSkipNodes/skip_nodes_config.json.
  • 30-day trial + perpetual license — machine-bound activation via Creem.

Works with Octo Rig Composer

Pair OSN with Octo Rig Composer: drive a peg entirely from the MC widget and hide it with -, so the animator navigates only the clean Drawing → deform → peg hierarchy while the widget-driven plumbing stays invisible. When a scene mixes rigs from different artists, the Tag Manager re-normalizes every marker to your convention in one pass.

Known issues

  • Tag Manager renames are not on Harmony's native undo stack (by design — node.rename isn't undoable in Harmony); use the in-tool undo / redo while the window is focused.
  • Offline activation requires a manual token from support.

Pre-release history

Octo Skip Nodes began as a navigation utility inside the internal Octo Tools monorepo and was extracted into its own tool. Public history begins with v1.0.0.