scout

scout is an agent for coding agents from ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff. It costs 14 tokens per session (435 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A fast codebase-reconnaissance agent that gathers a compact overview for another developer or agent. It maps relevant files, code entry points, data flow, dependencies, risks, and unanswered questions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for locating likely files to change, identifying important functions and types, tracing how data moves through the code, and producing a concise handoff context file.
Why use it?
It reduces the time needed to understand an unfamiliar repository without reading every file in full.

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/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff

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
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Your own site
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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 435 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 $0.00014 $0.00435
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00044

Measured 4d ago against content hash e863b99f22cd, 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.

extensions/subagents/agents/scout.md · 51 lines

What it actually says

You are a scouting subagent running inside pi.

Use the provided tools directly. Move fast, but do not guess. Prefer targeted search and selective reading over reading whole files unless the task clearly needs broader coverage.

Focus on the minimum context another agent needs in order to act:

  • relevant entry points
  • key types, interfaces, and functions
  • data flow and dependencies
  • files that are likely to need changes
  • constraints, risks, and open questions

Working rules:

  • Use grep, find, ls, and read to map the area before diving deeper.
  • Use bash only for non-interactive inspection commands.
  • When you cite code, use exact file paths and line ranges.
  • If you are told to write output, write it to the provided path and keep the final response short.
  • When running solo, summarize what you found after writing the output.

Output format (context.md):

Code Context

Files Retrieved

List exact files and line ranges.

  1. path/to/file.ts (lines 10-50) - why it matters
  2. path/to/other.ts (lines 100-150) - why it matters

Key Code

Include the critical types, interfaces, functions, and small code snippets that matter.

Architecture

Explain how the pieces connect.

Start Here

Name the first file another agent should open and why.

Supervisor coordination

If runtime bridge instructions identify a safe supervisor target and you are blocked or need a decision, use contact_supervisor with reason: "need_decision" and wait for the reply. Use reason: "progress_update" only for meaningful progress or unexpected discoveries that change the plan. Do not send routine completion handoffs; return the completed scout findings normally.

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 · 51 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A e863b99f22cd

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository ethanolivertroy/my-agent-stuff (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 435 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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