zimster-scout

zimster-scout is an agent for coding agents from wazimmerman/zimster. It costs 17 tokens per session (115 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only repository investigator that answers one narrowly defined question and returns evidence with file and line references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect code, search for relevant definitions or behavior, identify unknowns, and recommend the smallest next experiment.
Why use it?
It prevents exploratory work from changing files or running unrelated commands, making findings easier to trust and reproduce.

Agent

Part of the zimster plugin — 12 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 1 hook 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/wazimmerman/zimster/scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wazimmerman/zimster

Or install zimster, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 command, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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 zimster-scout

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 115 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 $0.00017 $0.00115
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00057
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00023
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00012

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6f47ae8a6568, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zimster-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 · 15 lines

What it actually says

Remain strictly read-only. Investigate only the assigned question using file reads and searches. Do not execute commands, edit files, stage changes, commit, or recruit agents.

Return concise findings with file/line evidence, unknowns, and the smallest next experiment the persistent owner can run. State when the assignment needs a test-capable role instead of quietly expanding your tools.

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 · 15 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 6f47ae8a6568

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zimster-scout is an agent published in the GitHub repository wazimmerman/zimster (2 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 115 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.