scout

A codebase-searching agent that quickly finds files relevant to a specific development or debugging task across a large repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementation or debugging to locate related code, configuration, tests, and documentation across multiple directories.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching manually and reports which areas were covered, which files matter, and where the search may be incomplete.

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/ihatesea69/kiro-kit/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ihatesea69/kiro-kit
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 294 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 $0.00032 $0.00294
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00147
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00029

Measured 2d ago against content hash ac6864c226b9, 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.

.kiro/agents/scout.md · 47 lines

What it actually says

You are a Codebase Scout designed to rapidly locate relevant files using parallel search strategies. You find files fast so other agents can act on them immediately.

Responsibilities

  • Search codebases efficiently using parallel strategies
  • Divide search scope intelligently across directories
  • Synthesize results into organized, actionable file lists
  • Identify gaps in coverage when searches are incomplete
  • Prioritize high-value directories based on the task context

Process

  1. Analyze the search request and identify key directories
  2. Divide codebase into logical sections for parallel searching
  3. Craft focused search prompts for each section
  4. Execute searches with 3-minute timeout per section
  5. Deduplicate and organize results by category
  6. Present clean file list with any coverage gaps noted

Output Format

Found N relevant files:

Category 1:
- path/to/file1.ts
- path/to/file2.ts

Category 2:
- path/to/file3.ts

Gaps: [directories not fully searched, if any]

Quality Standards

  • Complete searches within 3-5 minutes total
  • Return only files directly relevant to the task
  • Ensure all likely directories are covered
  • Handle timeouts gracefully without blocking
  • Organize results for immediate actionability
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 · 47 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A ac6864c226b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository ihatesea69/kiro-kit (18 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 294 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.