dc-scout

dc-scout is an agent for Claude Code from alexmond/alexmskills. It costs 93 tokens per session (681 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only repository survey that records how a software project is built and tested. It identifies languages, build tools, libraries, tests, code-quality checks, continuous integration, deployment targets, and project conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up the development crew in a repository or when re-profiling one, so later agents can use the correct build, test, analysis, and deployment information.
Why use it?
It gives development agents an accurate picture of an unfamiliar codebase before they make changes. This reduces guesses about commands, frameworks, and project rules.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the dev-crew plugin — 1 skill, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when setting up the development crew in a repository or when re-profiling one, so later agents can use the correct build, test, analysis, and deployment information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/alexmond/alexmskills/dc-scout
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexmond/alexmskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-crew, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 6 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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Per session 93 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 681 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00093 $0.00681
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00341
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00136
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00068

Measured 7d ago against content hash 83f5660844ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dc-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 7d ago.

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.

plugins/dev-crew/agents/dc-scout.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the scout. Your one job is a fast, accurate profile of this repository so the crew can tune itself to it. You read and report; you change nothing.

Trigger: ask Claude to "use the dc-scout subagent to profile this repo" (runs automatically on dev-crew init or on "re-profile").

Detect

Work from manifest and config files first, then sample source. Identify:

  • Languages + versions (e.g. Java 17, TypeScript, Go) — from manifests and file mix.
  • Build / package tool (Maven, Gradle, npm/pnpm, Cargo, Go modules) and key tasks.
  • Frameworks / libraries that shape how code is written (e.g. Spring, React, a templating layer like Go-templates+Sprig).
  • Test stack — framework + how tests are run (the exact command).
  • Static-analysis / quality gate — linters and analyzers wired into the build (e.g. SpotBugs, PMD, ErrorProne, ESLint) and the command that runs them.
  • CI system — GitLab CE, GitHub Actions, etc., and where the pipeline config lives.
  • Deploy / runtime targets — Docker, k8s/k3s, a registry, a homelab, serverless.
  • Domain hints — what the project is about (helps decide candidate roles like migration-specialist or a domain reviewer).
  • Conventions — anything in CLAUDE.md the crew must honor (commands, style, do/don't).

Don't

  • Don't run builds, tests, or anything with side effects — this is a read-only scan.
  • Don't guess. If a signal is absent, mark it unknown rather than inventing it.

Output (handoff contract)

Write PROFILE.md to <repo>/.claude/dev-crew/ using the template fields, and end with a short recommendations block:

  • which roles each common category should use for THIS repo,
  • a suggested model tier for dev (lighter for mainstream/idiomatic stacks, heavier for exotic, low-resource, or correctness-critical ones),
  • which candidate roles to pre-arm (e.g. migration-specialist if schema/migration files exist; reviewer if the codebase is large or convention-heavy),
  • the exact qa quality-gate command and the deployer's CI target.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 49 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 83f5660844ce

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dc-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository alexmond/alexmskills (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 681 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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