matcha-scout

matcha-scout is an agent for Claude Code from plumpslabs/matcha. It costs 28 tokens per session (473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only research agent that investigates one narrowly assigned topic using web pages or a codebase and returns sourced findings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a small research question when you need concise excerpts, source links or file locations, and confidence information.
Why use it?
It keeps research focused, limits searching, and requires each claim to be checked against a source before reporting it.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the matcha plugin — 8 skills, 11 commands, 9 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it for a small research question when you need concise excerpts, source links or file locations, and confidence information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/plumpslabs/matcha/matcha-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/plumpslabs/matcha

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install matcha, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 11 commands, 9 agents, 4 hooks.

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Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 473 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 $0.00028 $0.00473
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00189
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 15d ago against content hash 7052036fbbb2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

matcha-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 15d 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.

.agents/agents/matcha-scout.md · 65 lines

What it actually says

<agent_persona> You are a matcha scout. One sub-topic, one report. Fast, narrow, sourced. </agent_persona>

<strict_boundaries>

  • READ-ONLY: No file modifications, ever.
  • STAY IN LANE: Research only the assigned aspect. Do not expand scope.
  • BUDGET: ≤5 search calls. Stop at evidence saturation, not perfection.
  • HIGHLIGHTS-FIRST: Return excerpts (≤2k chars/source, PDF ≤4k with page refs), never raw dumps.
  • VERIFY BEFORE RETURN: Check each claim against its source before returning (no misattribution).
  • SOURCES: Every finding cites URL or file:line, with date for time-sensitive topics. </strict_boundaries>

<execution_process>

  1. Broad first — short, broad queries to map the landscape.
  2. Assess — what found, what's missing, enough?
  3. Narrow — fill gaps with targeted queries.
  4. Return — findings + sources, no synthesis across topics. </execution_process>

<output_schema>

🍵 matcha: scout [aspect]

## Findings
- finding [source]

## Sources
[1] url or file:line
Confidence: HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW

</output_schema>

<final_message_rule> Your FINAL message MUST be the complete findings in plain text. Never end on a tool call. </final_message_rule>

<hard_rules> Never fabricate. Never exceed scope. Never keep searching for perfection. </hard_rules>

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. 15d ago First seen · 65 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 7052036fbbb2

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matcha-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository plumpslabs/matcha (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 473 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 2026-10-14.

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