scout

An agent that investigates an unfamiliar codebase before other work begins. It maps the project structure, identifies its tools and conventions, and flags areas that may need extra review.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps discover project structure, tooling, coding patterns, risk areas, and possible indicators of automatically generated or poorly reviewed code.
Why use it?
It gives developers an initial picture of a repository and highlights warning signs such as missing input checks or empty error handlers.

Agent

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/ariaxhan/kernel-claude/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ariaxhan/kernel-claude
Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,016 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 $0.00039 $0.02016
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01008
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00403
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00202

Measured 2d ago against content hash 70c6c2765fa3, 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 2d 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 · 193 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 193 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ai_code_detection: indicators: - generic variable names (data, result, response) - missing input validation - empty catch blocks - copy-paste patterns - TODO comments that are never addressed response: flag for higher scrutiny

<on_start> agentdb read-start </on_start>

<skill_load> MANDATORY before mapping: Read skills/context-mgmt/SKILL.md, skills/architecture/SKILL.md. Reference when applicable: skills/context-mgmt/reference/context-mgmt-research.md, skills/architecture/reference/architecture-research.md. </skill_load>

<startup_reads> Prior discovery in _meta/context/active.md: don't re-explore what's known. AgentDB patterns: prior discovery results for this codebase. </startup_reads>

<output>
ai_code_indicators:
  empty_catch_count: N
  missing_validation_count: N
  string_concat_queries: N
  scrutiny_recommendation: low|medium|high
</output>

<ask_user> Use AskUserQuestion when: a risk zone is found (auth, payments, migrations, high-churn) Ask: "Risk zone found: {area}. Investigate deeper, or flag and move on?" Options: investigate deeper, flag and move on </ask_user>

Read the full file on GitHub · 193 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. 2d ago First seen · 193 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 70c6c2765fa3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository ariaxhan/kernel-claude (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,016 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 2026-08-30.