scout-mcp: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

scout-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from bartonguestier1725-collab/scout-mcp. It costs 5,064 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Project instructions for scout-mcp, a server that searches several online sources such as X, GitHub, Hacker News, Product Hunt, npm, and PyPI.

In plain words
What is it for?
Guiding development and use of the server, including its MCP and HTTP modes, project structure, configuration, testing CLI, and handling of partial source failures.
Why use it?
They explain how the server works and how to use its tools to gather technology, competitor, and market information in structured JSON.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code.

This is bartonguestier1725-collab/scout-mcp's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on scout-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything scout-mcp configures →

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/gen/projects/scout-mcp/build/index.js.

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Nothing to install: this file belongs to bartonguestier1725-collab/scout-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
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Sonnet 5 $0.01013 $0.01013
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Measured 11d ago against content hash 684e5d727e72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scout-mcp CLAUDE.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 11d 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.

CLAUDE.md · 325 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 325 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scout-mcp — マルチソース情報偵察 MCP サーバー

これは何?

Claude Code からツール呼び出しで使える 情報偵察(スカウト)MCP サーバー。 X(Twitter), GitHub, Hacker News, Product Hunt, npm, PyPI, x402 Bazaar を横断検索し、 技術トレンド・競合・マーケット情報を構造化 JSON で返す。

x402 HTTP API としても公開中: https://scout.hugen.tokyo(USDC on Base)


設計思想

  1. デュアルモード — MCP (stdio) + HTTP (Express + x402) の2モードで同じツール群を共有
  2. 最小依存@modelcontextprotocol/sdk, zod, dotenv, express, @x402/*
  3. 個別ツール + 合成レポート — 21 ツールが独立動作し、scout_report が並列合成する
  4. x402 マイクロペイメント — $0.001/req (無料ソース) 〜 $0.05/req (X含む)
  5. 1 ソース失敗 ≠ 全滅Promise.allSettled で部分的成功を許容

プロジェクト構造

scout-mcp/
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── .env                   # API キー + x402 設定(git 管理外)
├── .env.example           # テンプレート
├── .gitignore
├── CLAUDE.md              # ← このファイル
├── self_pay.py            # Bazaar セルフペイスクリプト
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts           # MCP サーバーエントリ (StdioServerTransport)
│   ├── server.ts          # HTTP サーバー (Express + x402 ミドルウェア)
│   ├── cli.ts             # テスト CLI (node build/cli.js <tool> '<json>')
│   ├── config.ts          # 環境変数・定数・デフォルト値
│   ├── fetch-utils.ts     # safeFetch (timeout/abort/error handling)
│   ├── types.ts           # ToolResult, ScoutError, ok(), fail()
│   └── tools/
│       ├── x-search.ts             # X 検索 (xAI Grok API)
│       ├── hackernews-search.ts    # HN 検索 (Algolia API)
│       ├── npm-search.ts           # npm Registry 検索
│       ├── github-search.ts        # GitHub リポ検索
│       ├── github-repo-info.ts     # GitHub リポ詳細
│       ├── pypi-search.ts          # PyPI パッケージ検索
│       ├── producthunt-search.ts   # Product Hunt 検索 (GraphQL)
│       ├── bazaar-search.ts        # x402 Bazaar 検索 (CDP Discovery)
│       ├── devto-search.ts         # Dev.to 記事検索 (Forem API)
│       ├── hashnode-search.ts      # Hashnode 記事検索 (GraphQL)
│       ├── lobsters-search.ts      # Lobste.rs 検索 (JSON API)
│       ├── stackexchange-search.ts # StackExchange 検索 (API v2.3)
│       ├── arxiv-search.ts         # ArXiv 論文検索 (Atom API)
│       ├── reddit-search.ts        # Reddit 検索 (.json feeds, MCP限定)
│       ├── youtube-search.ts       # YouTube 検索 (Data API v3)
│       ├── zenn-search.ts          # Zenn 記事検索 (非公式API, MCP限定)
│       ├── qiita-search.ts         # Qiita 記事検索 (API v2, MCP限定)
│       ├── semantic-scholar-search.ts # Semantic Scholar 論文検索
│       ├── lemmy-search.ts         # Lemmy 検索 (Fediverse, MCP限定)
│       ├── gitlab-search.ts        # GitLab プロジェクト検索
│       └── scout-report.ts         # 複合レポート (並列実行)
└── build/                 # tsc 出力(git 管理外)

Read the full file on GitHub · 325 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.

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scout-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository bartonguestier1725-collab/scout-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 5,064 tokens to every session, about $0.0253 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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