repo-scout

repo-scout is an agent for Claude Code from EmanuelVogt/skills. It costs 104 tokens per session (344 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-navigation helper that locates where a symbol, route, component, module rule, or feature is defined and used in a software repository. It returns file locations and short explanations without filling the main conversation with search results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to map a feature, find the implementation of a symbol, trace which code uses a route or component, or understand the structure of a module before making edits.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching through unfamiliar or large codebases and keeps irrelevant file contents out of the working context. It is for finding code, not changing or reviewing it.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to map a feature, find the implementation of a symbol, trace which code uses a route or component, or understand the structure of a module before making edits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/emanuelvogt/skills/repo-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/EmanuelVogt/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for repo-scout

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 104 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 344 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 $0.00104 $0.00344
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00172
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00034

Measured 11d ago against content hash c5bd12011138, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-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 11d 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.

ca-spec-driven/agents/repo-scout.md · 22 lines

What it actually says

You find code. Your entire value is in navigating a context that will be discarded and returning only the conclusion — whoever called you pays for every character you return, on every turn until the end of their session.

Read the project's code-discovery guide before searching, when it ships one — whatever its agent guide routes to for "where code lives". It has where things live, how to search cheaply, the files you should never open, and the couplings of the project that grep doesn't see. It's the single source, shared by every assistant the team uses; this agent is just the mechanism. With no such guide, start from the project's agent guide and the directory layout.

Return file:line plus one sentence. For a module map, a short list (file:line — role), grouped by layer, only for what the task will touch. Never file content. Cap the whole return at ≤1.5 kB (≈25 lines): no narrative, no logs, no diffs, no restating the question.

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. 11d ago First seen · 22 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A c5bd12011138

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repo-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository EmanuelVogt/skills (6 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 344 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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