research-scout

research-scout is an agent for Claude Code from UnpaidAttention/fable5-methodology. It costs 105 tokens per session (875 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A research assistant that checks the installed environment and then consults official documentation matching the relevant software version.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps answer questions about APIs, libraries, command-line flags, configuration options, and current recommended practices.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of relying on outdated or incorrect remembered information about changing tools and practices.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the fable5-methodology plugin — 26 skills, 4 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit It helps answer questions about APIs, libraries, command-line flags, configuration options, and current recommended practices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/unpaidattention/fable5-methodology/research-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/UnpaidAttention/fable5-methodology

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fable5-methodology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 4 agents, 5 hooks.

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 research-scout

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for research-scout

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 105 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 875 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 unknown 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 $0.00105 $0.00875
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00438
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00088

Measured 10d ago against content hash 3c2249281ca3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

research-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 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.

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/research-scout.md · 70 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 70 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 3c2249281ca3

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research-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository UnpaidAttention/fable5-methodology (91 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 875 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.