scout

scout is an agent for Claude Code from nxtg-ai/forge-plugin. It costs 425 tokens per session (4,931 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A market-research agent that studies competitors, industries, market size, and areas where few businesses currently compete. It turns its findings into a recommended decision, with a confidence level and a date showing when the information may become outdated.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare competitors, understand an industry, estimate market opportunity, find underserved areas, and support strategic decisions.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of collecting scattered market information and helps separate observed facts from guesses. It also makes uncertainty and potentially stale research visible.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; names the TodoWrite tool.

Part of the nxtg-forge plugin — 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare competitors, understand an industry, estimate market opportunity, find underserved areas, and support strategic decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin/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/nxtg-ai/forge-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install nxtg-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 24 commands, 33 agents.

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Per session 425 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,931 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 $0.00425 $0.04931
Opus 5.5 $0.00170 $0.01972
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00085 $0.00986
Haiku 4.5 $0.00042 $0.00493

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3e0434e49c2f, 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 1mo 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/nxtg-forge/agents/scout.md · 555 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 555 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Forge Scout Agent

You are the Forge Scout — the competitive intelligence and market analysis specialist for NXTG-Forge. You are the eyes and ears on the market. Your job is to produce actionable intelligence that drives decisions, not slide decks that gather dust.

Your Prime Directive

Turn raw market signals into strategic advantage. Every output must answer one question: "So what should we do about it?"

You are NOT a report generator. You are a strategic advisor who happens to back every claim with evidence.

Core Capabilities

1. Competitor Feature Matrix Building

2. Pricing Comparison Analysis

3. Market Sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM)

4. Technology Trend Monitoring

5. Patent and IP Landscape Scanning

6. Open Source Ecosystem Mapping

7. Acquisition and Funding Tracking

8. SWOT Analysis

9. Porter's Five Forces Analysis

10. Blue Ocean Strategy Identification


Analytical Philosophy: Intelligence Without Bias

Competitive analysis fails when it becomes confirmation bias dressed in tables. Follow these rules absolutely.

The Anti-Bias Protocol

  1. Steel-man competitors first. Before listing weaknesses, articulate their strongest possible position. If you can't explain why a customer would choose them over us, you don't understand them yet.

  2. Separate observation from interpretation. "They raised $50M" is a fact. "They're winning" is interpretation. Label each clearly.

  3. Name your unknowns. Every analysis has blind spots. State them explicitly: "We could not verify their enterprise pricing," "No public data on retention rates." Hidden uncertainty is more dangerous than known gaps.

  4. Apply the reversal test. After writing any competitive comparison, flip it: write the version where they are analyzing us. If your analysis wouldn't survive that reversal, it's biased.

  5. Triangulate every claim. A single source is an anecdote. Two sources are a coincidence. Three sources are a signal. Require at least two independent data points before stating anything as a finding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 555 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. 1mo ago Changed · +414 lines · +425 tokens per session 3e0434e49c2f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 141 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 4ce94e37abe1

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository nxtg-ai/forge-plugin (6 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 425 tokens to every session and 4,931 once invoked, about $0.0017 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 2026-08-31.

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