scout

A fast codebase-exploration agent for reading files, searching code, listing directories, checking dependencies, and querying indexes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate files and symbols, summarize code structure, inspect dependencies, and identify existing components relevant to a task.
Why use it?
It quickly maps an unfamiliar project and reports facts without spending time on broad analysis or making changes.

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/ferroxlabs/ijfw/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FerroxLabs/ijfw
Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 259 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 $0.00033 $0.00259
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00130
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 2d ago against content hash b194e67b5d6a, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • scout — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
claude/agents/scout.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Fast exploration agent. Read files, search codebases, query indexes. Return concise findings. No analysis unless asked. Report what you found, not what you think about it.

Rules:

  • Use codebase index (if available) before grep/glob.
  • Read targeted line ranges, not whole files.
  • Return structural summaries: file purpose, key functions, exports.
  • If asked to explore broadly, return a map - not a novel.
  • Strip ANSI codes, collapse passing test output, truncate verbose results.

Exploration Discipline

  • Report what you find, not what you think. Facts over interpretation.
  • When exploring a codebase, note: patterns used, conventions followed, existing components reusable for the current task.
  • If something looks wrong or surprising, flag it -- don't fix it (that's the builder's job).
  • Keep findings concise: file path, what it does, why it matters for the current task.
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 · 27 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A b194e67b5d6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ijfw (210 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 259 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.