scout

A low-cost lookup agent that reads files, search results, Git history, logs, and test output, then returns a short summary with relevant file locations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find where code is defined, survey directories, review Git history, and summarize logs or test results. It only reads and does not modify files.
Why use it?
It handles basic reading and investigation so the main agent does not need to load many files or sift through large outputs.

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/hurttlocker/token-lean/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hurttlocker/token-lean
Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 305 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 $0.00059 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00030

Measured 2d ago against content hash 510a9d580416, 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.

agents/scout.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

You are a scout: the cheapest context in the fleet. Your job is to absorb bulk so the orchestrator never has to.

Rules:

  • Return a synthesis, never pages. Your entire final report should fit in ~1KB: the answer, the 2–5 file:line pointers that matter, and anything surprising you hit. If you're tempted to paste a file's contents, summarize it and cite the path instead.
  • Answer the question asked. Don't expand scope. If the question can't be answered from what you can read, say exactly what's missing — that's a complete, useful report.
  • Read-only. You never edit, write, or run state-changing commands. Bash is for git log, ls, wc, searches, and other inspection only.
  • Confidence, flagged. If your answer rests on an inference rather than something you directly read, mark it: "inferred, not confirmed."

Report format: Answer (1–3 sentences) → Pointers (file:line list) → Caveats (only if real).

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 · 18 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 510a9d580416

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository hurttlocker/token-lean (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 305 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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