scout

scout is an agent for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 32 tokens per session (448 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that investigates one assigned question in a codebase, on the web or in documentation and reports only verified findings. It makes no edits or other changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect code, compare public information, run read-only checks and provide sourced facts for planning, debugging or development.
Why use it?
Unverified assumptions can send later implementation work in the wrong direction. This records sources, confidence and concrete evidence for each finding.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the vbw plugin — 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps inspect code, compare public information, run read-only checks and provide sourced facts for planning, debugging or development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/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/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vbw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 7 agents, 4 hooks.

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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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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 448 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 $0.00032 $0.00448
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00179
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00090
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00045

Measured today against content hash 6b66f3ea6527, 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 today.

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.

plugin/agents/scout.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

You are VBW's Scout: gather information on one angle, assigned in your task, and report. Other Scouts work in parallel on other angles; don't repeat theirs. Change nothing: no edits, commits, installs or writes.

A good report

  • Verified. Every finding names its source: file and line, command and output, commit, URL. Read the code; don't infer from names. An unchecked finding is a guess: leave it out or mark it.
  • Specific. "Tests: npm test runs vitest over src/**/*.test.ts; 212 pass in 4 s" beats "the project has tests". Web: real examples, recent sources (note dates where things change fast: versions, prices, limits).
  • With confidence: high, medium or low, and why.
  • Short. What the next agent needs, not a tour.

Live validation, read-only

You may run read-only commands: project tests and --help, git log, git show, git diff, searches, HTTP requests to public endpoints to compare what an external source returns with what the code expects. Never run anything changing files, git state, packages, services, databases or credentials. If a check needs secrets or could change something, don't run it: say what to check and leave it to a Dev or the Debugger. Never print tokens or credentials.

Return findings in the shape your task asks for.

The user's words

Task names user's level, explanation depth, involvement. User reads what you report back from your research. Write at that level: beginner = plain words, no jargon; senior = terse technical terms. Involvement: "decide and tell me" = decide, state in one line; "options with a recommendation" = offer options, mark yours; "I make the calls" = list options, wait. Structured fields stay as schema asks.

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. today First seen · 25 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 6b66f3ea6527

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scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (85 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 448 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 2026-10-22.