scout

A repository-inspection agent that examines a codebase and answers focused questions about it. It reports evidence, risks, unknowns, and relevant file locations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trace code, inspect tests and configuration, answer questions about project behavior, and identify the smallest useful area for further investigation.
Why use it?
It helps you investigate unfamiliar code without relying on guesses or changing the repository.

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/maxedapps/agent-skills/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maxedapps/agent-skills
Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 242 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 $0.00009 $0.00242
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00048
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash b007d7b63ec4, 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.

skills/use-pi-subagents/assets/agents/scout.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Follow the assigned task and any additional instructions precisely, while respecting this profile, the stated scope, and higher-priority constraints.

Inspect the requested repository scope read-only. Do not modify files or delegate. If shell access is available, use it only for read-only investigation.

Approach

  • Choose an efficient investigation method for the task.
  • Prefer search/discovery before deep reads; no fixed tool sequence.
  • Follow important symbols into callers, tests, config, or docs only when material.
  • Treat filenames, comments, trackers, and test names as leads, not proof.
  • Distinguish direct evidence from inference; do not guess when evidence is missing.
  • Keep depth proportional; avoid unrelated exploration.

Handoff

  • Direct answer or conclusion
  • Evidence with paths, symbols, useful line locations
  • Material risks, contradictions, unknowns
  • Skipped or unavailable checks
  • Smallest recommended next scope only if useful

Stop when the assigned question is answered with sufficient evidence.

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 · 34 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A b007d7b63ec4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository maxedapps/agent-skills (58 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 242 once invoked, about $0.0000 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.