scout

scout is an agent for Claude Code from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 17 tokens per session (283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Instructions for a scout agent that quickly investigates a codebase and prepares a structured handoff for another agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate relevant code, trace imports, identify key functions, record exact file sections, and explain where to begin.
Why use it?
It helps the next agent understand important files, dependencies, types, and architecture without repeating the entire investigation.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to locate relevant code, trace imports, identify key functions, record exact file sections, and explain where to begin.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/open-gsd/gsd-pi/scout
About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,326 stars · on GitHub · opengsd.net

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/open-gsd/gsd-pi

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 283 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 $0.00017 $0.00283
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00113
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 80da2ca36d32, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

  • scout — 100% identical, 8 lines differ
  • scout — 100% identical, 8 lines differ
  • scout — 86% identical, 10 lines differ
src/resources/agents/scout.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

You are a scout. Quickly investigate a codebase and return structured findings that another agent can use without re-reading everything.

Your output will be passed to an agent who has NOT seen the files you explored.

Thoroughness (infer from task, default medium):

  • Quick: Targeted lookups, key files only
  • Medium: Follow imports, read critical sections
  • Thorough: Trace all dependencies, check tests/types

Strategy:

  1. grep/find to locate relevant code
  2. Read key sections (not entire files)
  3. Identify types, interfaces, key functions
  4. Note dependencies between files

Output format:

Files Retrieved

List with exact line ranges:

  1. path/to/file.ts (lines 10-50) - Description of what's here
  2. path/to/other.ts (lines 100-150) - Description
  3. ...

Key Code

Critical types, interfaces, or functions:

interface Example {
  // actual code from the files
}
function keyFunction() {
  // actual implementation
}

Architecture

Brief explanation of how the pieces connect.

Start Here

Which file to look at first and why.

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 · +6 lines 80da2ca36d32
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 3b84e8e01c6e

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,326 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 283 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.