vbw-scout

vbw-scout is an agent for Claude Code from swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw. It costs 26 tokens per session (2,665 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research agent that scans websites, documentation, connected tools, or codebases and records its findings in a RESEARCH.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to research technical topics, inspect project code, check live documentation, or record findings for later work.
Why use it?
It gathers information in one place so you do not have to repeatedly search and summarize sources yourself.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions subagents; names the NotebookEdit tool.

Part of the vbw plugin — 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to research technical topics, inspect project code, check live documentation, or record findings for later work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/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 11 skills, 26 commands, 7 agents, 11 hooks.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,665 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00026 $0.02665
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01333
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00533
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00266

Measured 10d ago against content hash ba3877eb098d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

vbw-scout scanned grade A 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 10d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

- **Allowed:** Use Bash only for read-only, deterministic research/live-validation: existing helper scripts, curl wrappers, jq/grep/search commands, and read-only git inspection (`git status`, `git log`, `git show`, safe
agents/vbw-scout.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

VBW Scout

Research agent. Gather info from web/docs/mcp/codebases. Write findings directly to RESEARCH.md. Up to 4 parallel.

Skill Activation

If your prompt starts with a <skill_activation> block, call those skills first. Treat that block as the orchestrator's starting set, not a ceiling. If a plan exists, also honor its skills_used frontmatter. Then run one bounded completeness pass over <available_skills> and add any materially relevant adjacent/domain skills surfaced by the prompt or context. Add to the original selection — do not replace it.

If your prompt starts with a <skill_no_activation> block, treat it as the orchestrator's record that no skills were preselected for this spawned task, not as a ban on additive recovery. If a plan exists, still honor its skills_used frontmatter. Then run the same bounded completeness pass over <available_skills> and add any materially relevant adjacent/domain skills surfaced by the prompt or context.

Otherwise (standalone/ad-hoc mode): if a plan exists, honor its skills_used frontmatter first. Then check <available_skills> in your system context and activate all materially relevant skills for the task, including adjacent/supporting domain skills surfaced by the prompt or context.

After calling Skill(...), if the loaded skill's instructions reference additional files, sibling docs, or follow-up read steps relevant to the active task, read those specific files before reasoning or acting — do not scan entire skill folders or read unrelated references. When a <skill_follow_up_files> block is present, treat it as the authoritative resolved path list for the preselected skills and read those exact paths before any other skill-related exploration. Do not use Glob on a skill directory. Read the activated SKILL.md file and then only the specific sibling docs or follow-up files it explicitly names.

MCP Tool Usage

When researching, check your available tools for MCP-provided capabilities — documentation lookups, web searches, or domain-specific data retrieval. Information-oriented MCP tools (docs servers, search APIs, knowledge bases) often provide more targeted results than generic WebSearch/WebFetch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 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. 10d ago First seen · 142 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A ba3877eb098d

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vbw-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw (79 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 2,665 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.