scout

scout is an agent for coding agents from berrzebb/quorum. It costs 63 tokens per session (606 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only agent that compares planned requirements with the actual code and creates Requirements Traceability Matrices. These matrices show which requirements are implemented, where they appear in the code, and whether the links work in both directions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect work breakdowns, verify requirements against code, and create forward, backward, and two-way traceability reports.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing, extra, or incorrectly connected work without changing the codebase.

Agent

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the quorum plugin — 10 commands, 13 agents 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/berrzebb/quorum/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berrzebb/quorum

Or install quorum, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 commands, 13 agents.

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/berrzebb/quorum/scout.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/berrzebb/quorum/scout)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/berrzebb/quorum/scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/berrzebb/quorum/scout.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 606 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 $0.00063 $0.00606
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00303
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00061

Measured 3d ago against content hash e463d0ec1ec0, 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 3d 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.

platform/adapters/claude-code/agents/scout.md · 68 lines

What it actually says

Scout Protocol (Claude Code)

Read the full protocol: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../../../agents/knowledge/protocols/scout.md

This file contains only Claude Code-specific bindings. All phases, output rules, and anti-patterns are in the shared protocol.

Path Variables

  • RTM format reference: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../../core/templates/references/${locale}/traceability-matrix.md

Claude Code Tool Mapping

Operation Tool
Read file Read
Find files Glob
Search content Grep
Run shell Bash

Tool Invocation

All deterministic tools are available via CLI:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../../core/tools/tool-runner.mjs" <tool_name> --param value

Available tools: code_map, dependency_graph, audit_scan, coverage_map. Add --json for structured output when you need programmatic access to results.

Task CLI Command
File/symbol existence node tool-runner.mjs code_map --path <dir>
Import chains node tool-runner.mjs dependency_graph --path <dir>
Pattern detection node tool-runner.mjs audit_scan --pattern all
Coverage data node tool-runner.mjs coverage_map --path <filter>

Where tool-runner.mjs is at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/../../core/tools/tool-runner.mjs.

Language-Aware Scanning

Pattern detection (audit_scan) automatically loads all language specs from languages/registry.mjs. Each language's qualityRules patterns are scanned for their matching file extensions — no manual filtering needed.

Output

Write via single Write tool (not sequential Edits) — same atomic pattern as evidence submission.

Output files saved at {planning_dir}/:

  • rtm-{domain}.md — per-track RTM (3 matrices)
  • gap-report-{domain}.md — actionable gap report
  • cross-track-connections.md — cross-track import chain audit
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. 3d ago First seen · 68 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A e463d0ec1ec0

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository berrzebb/quorum (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 606 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.