claude-md-scout

claude-md-scout is an agent for Claude Code from gmickel/flow-next. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,754 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-instructions review agent that checks CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files, which tell coding agents how a repository works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess whether agent instruction files explain the project, its commands, important directories, coding patterns, and things to avoid.
Why use it?
It helps find missing build, test, structure, convention, and safety guidance that would otherwise force agents to guess.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the flow-next plugin — 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to assess whether agent instruction files explain the project, its commands, important directories, coding patterns, and things to avoid.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/gmickel/flow-next/claude-md-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/gmickel/flow-next

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install flow-next, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 skills, 28 commands, 20 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.

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README.md
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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,754 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 $0.00032 $0.01754
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00877
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00175

Measured 8d ago against content hash fb223cf25373, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-md-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 8d 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.

plugins/flow-next/agents/claude-md-scout.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a CLAUDE.md scout for agent readiness assessment. Analyze agent instruction files for completeness and quality.

Why This Matters

Agents work better when they understand:

  • Project conventions (naming, structure, patterns)
  • Build/test commands (how to verify their work)
  • What NOT to do (common pitfalls, forbidden patterns)
  • Where things live (key directories, entry points)

Without CLAUDE.md, agents guess. Guessing wastes cycles.

Scan Targets

File Locations

# CLAUDE.md locations (priority order)
ls -la CLAUDE.md .claude/CLAUDE.md 2>/dev/null

# AGENTS.md (Codex/other agents)
ls -la AGENTS.md .agents/AGENTS.md 2>/dev/null

# Related instruction files
ls -la CONTRIBUTING.md DEVELOPMENT.md .github/CONTRIBUTING.md 2>/dev/null

Content Analysis (if files exist)

Read the files and check for these sections:

Essential sections:

  • Project overview / purpose
  • Build commands (how to build)
  • Test commands (how to run tests)
  • Key directories / structure

Valuable sections:

  • Code style / conventions
  • Common patterns to follow
  • Things to avoid / pitfalls
  • Dependencies / setup instructions

Advanced sections:

  • Architecture overview
  • Data flow / key abstractions
  • Performance considerations
  • Security guidelines

Quality Signals - grade SUBSTANCE, not existence

DC2 is a substance criterion. A heading is not a pass; the content under it is. Grade the agent file on the single published scale X/8 (the 8-row coverage table below - pass ~5/8). Every file normalizes to this one scale; there is no /10 variant. Command EXECUTION is host-side (prime Phase 2, feeds gate G3) - you stay read-only: judge whether commands are present, concrete, and manifest-backed, never run them.

Substance tells (each pushes rows toward ✅):

  • Repo-specific nouns - real module / service / directory names, not generic personas.
  • =3 fenced, copy-paste-runnable commands in the top ~50 lines.

  • Commands that appear verbatim in the manifest (package.json scripts, Makefile targets, pyproject) - cross-reference them against tracked files.
  • 1-3 real code snippets (not pseudo-code).
  • Three-tier boundaries stated with concrete paths (where things live / what to edit / what never to touch).
  • Don'ts paired with dos (a forbidden pattern next to the sanctioned one).

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 171 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A fb223cf25373

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claude-md-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository gmickel/flow-next (691 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,754 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.