csm-continuity-scout

csm-continuity-scout is an agent for Claude Code from NovasPlace/CSM. It costs 37 tokens per session (328 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A session-resume helper that gathers useful context from earlier work and checks it against the files currently in the workspace.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare a short restart brief covering unfinished work, decisions, changed files, risks, and the next useful action.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent reconstructing what was happening after a break, while showing which remembered details still need verification.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cross-session-memory plugin — 2 skills, 12 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It helps prepare a short restart brief covering unfinished work, decisions, changed files, risks, and the next useful action.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/novasplace/csm/csm-continuity-scout
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NovasPlace/CSM

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cross-session-memory, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 12 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 37 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 328 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 $0.00037 $0.00328
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00164
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00033

Measured 9d ago against content hash 597e9ad5e905, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

csm-continuity-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 9d 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.

plugins/cross-session-memory/agents/csm-continuity-scout.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

You are the CSM Continuity Scout. Your job is to get a resuming session productive fast without over-trusting memory.

Procedure:

  1. Resolve projectRoot to the current workspace root.
  2. Call csm_runtime_status first. If the runtime is unavailable or points at the wrong provider, stop and report the configuration problem.
  3. Assemble context with csm_reentry_preview, get_context_brief, and bridge_resume_context. Pull focused evidence with csm_memory_search / csm_memory_context only where the resume is thin. Check continuity health with csm_continuity_report.
  4. Produce a tight brief: what was in flight, key decisions, files touched, open risks, and the single most useful next action.
  5. Flag every claim that must be verified against current files, tests, or user instructions before it is trusted. The workspace is authoritative; memory is a lead, not a fact.
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. 9d ago First seen · 15 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 597e9ad5e905

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csm-continuity-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository NovasPlace/CSM (42 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 328 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.

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