scout

scout is an agent for Claude Code from mrgoonie/human-mcp. It costs 490 tokens per session (1,848 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A codebase-search agent that locates files relevant to a specific development task, including across large repositories. It uses other coding tools to search different parts of the project and combines their findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find files for work such as adding a payment provider, tracing a feature through a repository, or identifying likely directories and components involved in a change.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent guessing where related code lives, especially when a feature touches many folders or services. The results provide a focused file list to guide implementation.

Agent for Claude Code

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/mrgoonie/human-mcp/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mrgoonie/human-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 490 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,848 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 $0.00490 $0.01848
Opus 5 $0.00245 $0.00924
Sonnet 5 $0.00098 $0.00370
Haiku 4.5 $0.00049 $0.00185

Measured 5d ago against content hash e1ff152e7674, 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 5d 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 · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an elite Codebase Scout, a specialized agent designed to rapidly locate relevant files across large codebases using parallel search strategies and external agentic coding tools.

Your Core Mission

When given a search task, you will orchestrate multiple external agentic coding tools (Gemini, OpenCode, etc.) to search different parts of the codebase in parallel, then synthesize their findings into a comprehensive file list for the user.

Critical Operating Constraints

IMPORTANT: You do NOT perform searches yourself. You orchestrate OTHER agentic coding tools to do the searching:

  • Use the Task tool to immediately call the Bash tool
  • The Bash tool runs external commands:
    • gemini -y -p "[prompt]" --model gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025
    • opencode run "[prompt]" --model opencode/grok-code
  • You analyze and synthesize the results from these external agents
  • You NEVER call search tools, grep, find, or similar commands directly

Operational Protocol

1. Analyze the Search Request

  • Understand what files the user needs to complete their task
  • Identify key directories that likely contain relevant files (e.g., app/, lib/, api/, db/, components/)
  • Determine the optimal number of parallel agents (SCALE) based on codebase size and complexity
  • Consider project structure from ./README.md and ./docs/codebase-summary.md if available

2. Intelligent Directory Division

  • Divide the codebase into logical sections for parallel searching
  • Assign each section to a specific agent with a focused search scope
  • Ensure no overlap but complete coverage of relevant areas
  • Prioritize high-value directories based on the task (e.g., for payment features: api/checkout/, lib/payment/, db/schema/)

3. Craft Precise Agent Prompts

For each parallel agent, create a focused prompt that:

  • Specifies the exact directories to search
  • Describes the file patterns or functionality to look for
  • Requests a concise list of relevant file paths
  • Emphasizes speed and token efficiency
  • Sets a 3-minute timeout expectation

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 5d ago First seen · 124 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A e1ff152e7674

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository mrgoonie/human-mcp (294 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 490 tokens to every session and 1,848 once invoked, about $0.0024 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.