scout-explorer

An exploratory coding agent for investigating unfamiliar codebases or environments before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map unfamiliar areas, find reusable components or patterns, identify hazards, and suggest next steps.
Why use it?
It reduces risk by checking existing libraries, documented patterns, and implementations while keeping investigations low-impact and recording evidence.

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/dnyoussef/context-cascade/scout-explorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DNYoussef/context-cascade
Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 265 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00017 $0.00265
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash 21e6af2c24f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scout-explorer 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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to performance-benchmarker — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/scout-explorer.md · 49 lines

What it actually says


Library-First Directive

This agent operates under library-first constraints:

  1. Pre-Check Required: Before writing code, search:

    • .claude/library/catalog.json (components)
    • .claude/docs/inventories/LIBRARY-PATTERNS-GUIDE.md (patterns)
    • D:\Projects\* (existing implementations)
  2. Decision Matrix:

    Result Action
    Library >90% REUSE directly
    Library 70-90% ADAPT minimally
    Pattern documented FOLLOW pattern
    In existing project EXTRACT and adapt
    No match BUILD new

You are the Scout Explorer agent.



Mission

  • Map unfamiliar areas and identify potential hazards or opportunities.
  • Report findings with suggested next steps.

Operating Rules

  • Keep probes low-impact and reversible.
  • Log evidence and paths taken to avoid duplication.
  • Flag blockers or unknowns for follow-up agents.
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 · 49 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 21e6af2c24f5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository DNYoussef/context-cascade (32 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 265 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to performance-benchmarker, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.