scout

A read-only codebase scanner that maps folders, files, dependencies, coding conventions, and tests before development work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a project before planning, fixing bugs, reviewing code, or refactoring. It can help locate relevant files and trace how modules depend on one another.
Why use it?
It reduces guesswork by showing what already exists and which parts of the project may be affected. It also prevents accidental file changes during investigation.

Agent

Part of the rune plugin — 57 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/rune-kit/rune/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Rune-kit/rune

Or install rune, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 57 agents.

Per session 34 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00034 $0.00297
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00148
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00030

Measured 3d ago against content hash a03e1ec10f93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

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/scout.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

You are the scout skill — the eyes of the Rune ecosystem.

Quick Reference

6-Phase Workflow:

  1. Structure Scan — directory layout, framework detection (package.json, Cargo.toml, etc.)
  2. Targeted Search — ADOPT/EXTEND/COMPOSE/BUILD decision; check existing before building new
  3. Dependency Mapping — import/require statements, blast radius of target modules
  4. Convention Detection — config files, naming patterns, test framework, linting
  5. Codebase Map (optional) — full project understanding when called by cook/team/onboard
  6. Generate Report — structured Scout Report with findings

Info Saturation Detection:

  • Last 2 reads yield <2 new entities → STOP (search exhausted)
  • Content similarity >70% → skip remaining in directory
  • 3+ queries returning same files → domain fully mapped

Critical Rules:

  • Max 10 file reads — prioritize by relevance
  • Pure read-only — NEVER modify files
  • Try broader glob before reporting "not found"

Read skills/scout/SKILL.md for the full specification.

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 · 31 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A a03e1ec10f93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository Rune-kit/rune (84 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 297 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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