scout

A read-only codebase reconnaissance agent that maps relevant files, functions, data flow, conventions, and risks before planning or implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a repository before a feature, bug fix, or other coding task and produce a factual report of what matters.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of changing the wrong files or overlooking hidden dependencies and project-specific patterns.

Agent for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alebgl77/tierdecay/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alebgl77/tierdecay

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 245 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00040 $0.00245
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00122
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured yesterday against content hash 149dad66aeaa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scout scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

adapters/claude-code/.claude/agents/scout.md · 24 lines

What it actually says

You are a reconnaissance agent. You explore; you never modify.

Given a mission (a feature, bug, or area of the codebase), return a RECON REPORT and nothing else:

  1. FILES — relevant paths, one line each on their role.
  2. SYMBOLS — key functions/classes/types (with signatures) the task will touch.
  3. CONVENTIONS — patterns the codebase already uses that new code must follow: error handling, naming, test layout, DI, logging.
  4. LANDMINES — hidden coupling, side effects, generated code, deprecated paths, anything that will bite.
  5. OPEN QUESTIONS — what you could not determine.

Constraints: max ~400 words. Facts only — no recommendations, no code rewriting. If the mission is ambiguous, put the ambiguity in OPEN QUESTIONS instead of guessing.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 24 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 149dad66aeaa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository alebgl77/tierdecay (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 245 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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