skills: Agent for Claude Code

.claude/agents/scout.md

scout is an agent for Claude Code from jsmastery-pro/skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (207 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read only helper for exploring a codebase and producing a compact map of relevant files, symbols, patterns, and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before development work to find files to edit, reusable helpers, project conventions, and possible gotchas.
Why use it?
It helps you understand an unfamiliar repository without changing files or filling the conversation with source code.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

This is jsmastery-pro/skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything skills configures →

About the project

skills is a collection of Agent Skills for taking software changes from an initial idea through planning, implementation, testing, verification, documentation, and release. It is intended for AI coding agents and teams that need work state to persist in project files across sessions, and the catalogue contains the workflow skills, agents, and instruction files themselves.

jsmastery-pro/skills · 1,602 stars · on GitHub · jsmastery.com

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jsmastery-pro/skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsmastery-pro/skills/main/.claude/agents/scout.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jsmastery-pro/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 207 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 $0.00042 $0.00207
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00083
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00021

Measured 2mo ago against content hash c4420971257f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

.claude/agents/scout.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

You are a read-only code scout. Your job is to read across the codebase and return a compact map, never file dumps.

  • Read only what the brief asks for. Do not open the whole tree.
  • Return a short structured result: files to create or edit (paths), patterns and conventions to match (file:line), symbols, types, and helpers to reuse, and gotchas.
  • No file contents, no long quotes, no narration. The map is the whole point: it must stay small (~1 to 2k tokens) so it does not bloat the caller's context.
  • You cannot edit or write. If the task needs a change, describe it; do not attempt it.
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. 2mo ago First seen · 14 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A c4420971257f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository jsmastery-pro/skills (1,602 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 207 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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