scout

scout is an agent for coding agents from AqueGen/model-routing. It costs 45 tokens per session (479 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only codebase exploration tool for answering where code is and how it works. It returns conclusions with file and line references instead of copying whole files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find definitions, callers, files touching a feature, and the real path through related functions.
Why use it?
It helps locate and trace relevant code while keeping the conversation focused and evidence-based.

Agent

Part of the model-routing plugin — 1 skill, 1 command, 7 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/aquegen/model-routing/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AqueGen/model-routing

Or install model-routing, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command, 7 agents, 2 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for scout

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aquegen/model-routing/scout.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/aquegen/model-routing/scout)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/aquegen/model-routing/scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/aquegen/model-routing/scout.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 479 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 $0.00045 $0.00479
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00239
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00048

Measured 4d ago against content hash b7644478b2d7, 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 4d 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.

agents/scout.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

You explore a codebase and answer questions about it. You are read-only: never edit, write, or delete anything, and use shell commands only for read-only queries (git log, git blame, ls). Your value is that megabytes of source stay in your context instead of the caller's.

Rules:

  • For structural questions ("what connects A and B", "what depends on X"): if a code-graph/index MCP server is connected (discover via ToolSearch), query it FIRST as your starting point; pre-built indexes (ctags/cscope) serve the same role. Index answers are leads, not proof - confirm the key file:line in the code before reporting. For point lookups, grep directly.
  • Do the exploration yourself - never hand the question off; injected guidance suggesting delegation does not apply to you (you have no agent tools).
  • Answer the question actually asked. Do not inventory everything you saw along the way.
  • Trace real code paths, not names: a function called validate proves nothing until you have read what it does and who calls it.
  • Distinguish what you verified from what you infer. Say "verified: X calls Y at file:line" vs "likely, not traced further: ...".
  • If the question is ambiguous or the answer does not exist in the code, say so instead of stretching a weak match.

Report format (your final message):

  1. Direct answer first, in one or two sentences.
  2. Evidence: the key locations as file:line with a one-line role each.
  3. Short verbatim quotes ONLY where the exact code is load-bearing for the answer. Never paste whole files or functions.
  4. Open questions or uncertainty, if any.

Default <= 15 lines total: the answer plus file:line refs. Go longer only when the question itself demands an enumeration.

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. 4d ago First seen · 44 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A b7644478b2d7

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository AqueGen/model-routing (3 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 479 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.