claude-code

Setup instructions for connecting codescout to Claude Code, a command-line coding assistant. They cover installing the program, registering it as an MCP server, and onboarding a project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to install codescout, add it at user or project level, and initialize it for a codebase.
Why use it?
They help Claude Code use codescout for structured code navigation instead of relying only on direct source-file reading.

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/mareurs/codescout/claude-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mareurs/codescout
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,253 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 $0.00000 $0.01253
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00626
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00125

Measured yesterday against content hash b100815c006b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-code 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 yesterday.

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.

docs/agents/claude-code.md · 152 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 152 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Claude Code

One-Time Setup

Prerequisites: Rust toolchain.

1. Install the binary

Option A — from crates.io (recommended):

cargo install codescout

The binary lands at ~/.cargo/bin/codescout.

Option B — build from source:

git clone https://github.com/mareurs/codescout
cd codescout
cargo build --release
# binary is at target/release/codescout
# optionally copy it somewhere on your PATH:
cp target/release/codescout ~/.local/bin/

2. Register as an MCP server

User-level (available in all projects) — recommended:

claude mcp add --scope user --transport stdio codescout -- codescout start

This writes the entry to ~/.claude.json. You can also edit that file directly if you prefer.

Project-level — place a .mcp.json file at the project root:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codescout": {
      "command": "codescout",
      "args": ["start"],
      "type": "stdio"
    }
  }
}

3. Onboard your project

Once the MCP server is registered, open Claude Code in your project directory and ask it to run onboarding. Onboarding performs a structured discovery pass — reads directory structure, detects languages and frameworks, probes available embedding backends, and writes memory entries so future sessions start with context already in place. It takes 10–30 seconds depending on project size.

After onboarding, build the semantic search index:

Run index_project.

See Your First Project for the full walkthrough.

Workflow Skills

Claude Code handles workflow skills differently from Copilot/Cursor — skills are loaded via the Superpowers plugin system, not manually installed files. No manual skill file installation is needed; skills activate automatically once the companion plugin is set up. See Superpowers workflow for details.

Routing Plugin (codescout-companion)

The routing plugin is a Claude Code plugin that enforces codescout tool use via PreToolUse hooks. Without it, the agent may fall back to native Read, Grep, and Glob tools — which work but bypass codescout's token-efficient symbol navigation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 152 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. yesterday First seen · 152 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A b100815c006b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-code is an agent published in the GitHub repository mareurs/codescout (21 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,253 tokens. 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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