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.
npx agentmods add instructions/ash-blanc/hackscout-mcp/agents-mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ash-Blanc/hackscout-mcpWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ash-blanc/hackscout-mcp/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/ash-blanc/hackscout-mcp/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/ash-blanc/hackscout-mcp/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00278 | $0.00278 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00139 | $0.00139 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00056 | $0.00056 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00028 | $0.00028 |
Grade A, and why
hackscout-mcp AGENTS.md 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 3d 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.
What it actually says
HackScout MCP — Codex guidance
HackScout is a Developer Tools FastMCP server: it gives builders and agent runtimes hackathon discovery, fit scoring, track strategy, and public-gallery intelligence. Keep that framing in product copy and demos.
Local workflow
uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest -q
uv run python scripts/judge_smoke.py
uv run python scripts/demo_flow.py
Run the stdio server with uv run hackscout-mcp. To dogfood it from Codex,
copy docs/codex-mcp.toml.snippet into a Codex config and replace ABS_PATH
with this repository's absolute path. Use a separate HACKSCOUT_DB_PATH for
experiments so local demo data does not affect another run.
Safety and verification
- The offline demo and
judge_smoke.pymust not require API keys or network. - Live gallery results may be empty:
ok: true,source: live_empty, andcount: 0is healthy. Do not label cached records as a live extraction. - Keep live discovery separate from synthetic fixtures (
include_demo=trueis an explicit local-demo opt-in). - Do not deploy, commit, or push unless the user explicitly asks.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 29 lines · 278 tokens per session scan A ff0c4cf1fcde
hackscout-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository Ash-Blanc/hackscout-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 278 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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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