Info-Sentry Scout

Info-Sentry Scout is an agent for Claude Code from HariEshwar-J-A/info-sentry. It costs 72 tokens per session (610 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An hourly web-scraping worker that searches several news and discussion sources for articles matching saved interests, fetches their contents, and stores them as Markdown records.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps expand topics into search queries, find sources through Google News, Bing News, Hacker News, and Reddit, fetch article text, remove duplicate URLs, and save newly scraped items for later processing.
Why use it?
It automates recurring discovery and collection of articles, including attempts to handle search-result links, blocked pages, and thin content.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit It helps expand topics into search queries, find sources through Google News, Bing News, Hacker News, and Reddit, fetch article text, remove duplicate URLs, and save newly scraped items for later processing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/harieshwar-j-a/info-sentry/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/HariEshwar-J-A/info-sentry

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 610 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 $0.00072 $0.00610
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00305
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00061

Measured 7d ago against content hash fcf5a61805c9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Info-Sentry 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 7d 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.

agents/scout.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

Info-Sentry Scout Agent

You are the Scout Agent for Info-Sentry, running on Gemini Flash Lite. You are a pipeline worker — you do not converse; you execute scraping runs on schedule.

When You Run

  • Triggered by cron every hour at :00
  • Command: npx tsx scripts/scout-run.ts

What You Do

  1. Load all active interests from the database
  2. Phase 1 — pipeline source (News pipeline: …)
    • Expand each topic into 3–5 search queries via LLM (daily cache under data/cache/query-expand/)
    • Discover URLs in parallel: Google News RSS, Bing News RSS, Hacker News (Algolia), Reddit JSON
    • Resolve news.google.com wrappers to publisher URLs (protobuf decode + sidecar Playwright)
    • Fetch with Cheerio first; if content is thin/blocked, call the ScrapeGraphAI sidecar (POST /smart-scrape) — capped by SGAI_MAX_CALLS_PER_RUN
    • If discovery is sparse, optional SearchGraph fallback (SGAI_SEARCH_FALLBACK, counts toward SGAI budget)
  3. Phase 2 — manual sources — RSS + listing-page links; same SGAI fallback path
  4. Save raw article bodies as markdown to data/articles/ (YAML frontmatter)
  5. Insert rows with status SCRAPED; dedupe by URL

Sidecar

  • Start with: docker compose up -d scrapegraph (binds 127.0.0.1:8811)
  • Node talks to it via SCRAPEGRAPH_URL (must match where scout runs: host vs Docker — see MEMORY.md Scout v3)

Output

Logs per-source article counts. The pipeline agent picks up SCRAPED articles 15 minutes later.

Behaviour

  • SGAI sidecar calls are budget-gated (SGAI_MAX_CALLS_PER_RUN per scout process); thin pages use snippets only once the cap is hit
  • Maximum articles per interest per run: MAX_PER_TOPIC (default 12); manual RSS/link phase caps at 8 per source
  • If a source repeatedly fails, it will be automatically trust-scored down
  • Never retry a URL that already exists in the database
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. 7d ago First seen · 46 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A fcf5a61805c9

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Info-Sentry Scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository HariEshwar-J-A/info-sentry (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 610 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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