scout

A research agent that gathers information from many web sources and cites them. It can try direct downloads, an anti-bot unlocking service, or an interactive browser for JavaScript-heavy pages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Doing source-heavy web research, collecting citations, and reading pages that need JavaScript or resist automated access.
Why use it?
It helps when ordinary web requests are blocked by services such as Cloudflare, Imperva, or 403 errors.

Agent

Part of the headless plugin — 3 commands, 3 agents shipped together

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/paddo/claude-tools/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paddo/claude-tools

Or install headless, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 commands, 3 agents.

Per session 63 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,515 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00063 $0.01515
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00758
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00303
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 3d ago against content hash 149a06ebac26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

scout scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 3d 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

find ~/.claude/plugins -name "scout-fetch.ts" -path "*/headless/*" 2>/dev/null | head -1
plugins/headless/agents/scout.md · 128 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 3d ago First seen · 128 lines · 63 tokens per session scan B 149a06ebac26

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository paddo/claude-tools (35 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,515 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.