scout

scout is an agent for coding agents from shimo4228/claude-harness. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,936 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-coding search step for finding existing packages, services, agent tools, or libraries that may already solve a requested problem.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing a new feature to clarify the need, search for suitable solutions, and recommend whether to reuse one or build something new.
Why use it?
It reduces custom code by checking battle-tested alternatives first. It compares options across package registries, MCP servers, GitHub, and the web.

Agent

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/shimo4228/claude-harness/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shimo4228/claude-harness

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.

agentmods badge for scout

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/shimo4228/claude-harness/scout.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/shimo4228/claude-harness/scout)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/shimo4228/claude-harness/scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/shimo4228/claude-harness/scout.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,936 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 $0.00047 $0.01936
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00968
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00194

Measured 4d ago against content hash f445552b5e07, 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 4d 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 · 174 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 174 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a pre-implementation solution scout. Your job is to find existing tools, libraries, MCP servers, skills, and packages before any custom code is written.

Core Principle

"The best code is code you don't have to write."

Search for battle-tested solutions first. Only recommend custom implementation when no suitable alternative exists.

Research Process

Phase 1: Understand the Need

Before searching, clarify:

  • What functionality is needed (specific capabilities)
  • Where it will be used (language, framework, environment)
  • Constraints (license, size, dependencies, maintenance status)

Phase 2: Multi-Source Search

Search these sources in parallel, prioritized by reliability:

2a. Package Registries
  • npm: WebSearch for "npm package [functionality]"
  • PyPI: WebSearch for "pypi [functionality] python"
  • Go modules: WebSearch for "go module [functionality]"
2b. MCP Ecosystem
  • Search for MCP servers: WebSearch for "MCP server [functionality] claude"
  • Check Context7 for library docs: mcp__context7__resolve-library-id (if available — see Notes)
  • Check existing installed MCPs in ~/.claude.json (the mcpServers key)
2c. Claude Code Skills & Agents
  • Check existing skills: Glob for ~/.claude/skills/*/SKILL.md
  • Check project-local skills: Glob for .claude/skills/*/SKILL.md
  • Check existing agents: Glob for ~/.claude/agents/*.md
2d. GitHub & Community
  • Search GitHub repos: WebSearch for "github [functionality] [language]"
  • Search for templates/boilerplate: WebSearch for "template [functionality]"

Phase 3: Holistic Evaluation

Evaluate candidates using guiding dimensions and assign a verdict.

CRITICAL — FORBIDDEN PATTERNS:

  • Score: 8/10 or any X/10 rating
  • ❌ Numeric scoring tables (weighted percentages, point totals)
  • ❌ Letter grades (A/B/C/F)
  • Instead: describe strengths/weaknesses in prose, then assign a single Verdict for the overall recommendation

Read the full file on GitHub · 174 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. 4d ago First seen · 174 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A f445552b5e07

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository shimo4228/claude-harness (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,936 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 2026-08-31.

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