scout

scout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A decision-making aid for judging whether a new outside idea, tool, article, competitor action, or opportunity deserves attention now. It checks how the thing relates to your current work and returns one of three decisions: act now, revisit later, or discard.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to assess new tools, research, workflow ideas, market moves, or opportunities and decide whether they fit an active project, goal, or problem.
Why use it?
It prevents time being spent on interesting information that does not change what you should do. It also gives a clear reason for postponing or rejecting a topic.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to assess new tools, research, workflow ideas, market moves, or opportunities and decide whether they fit an active project, goal, or problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/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.

Any agent
npx skills add AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills --skill scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 scout

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ankitclassicvision/ankit_shared_skills/scout.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,499 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 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 $0.00065 $0.01499
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00749
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00300
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00150

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5c6abdbc0c59, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 8d 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.

plugins/run-project-bundle/skills/scout/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SCOUT

SCOUT is a triage skill for deciding whether a new thing should change what you do.

Use it when someone brings an outside signal and asks questions like:

  • "Should I care about this?"
  • "Is this useful for us?"
  • "Where would this apply?"
  • "Should we act on this now or save it for later?"
  • "Does this change our current plan?"

SCOUT does not merely summarize. It decides whether the thing creates a decision delta.

Core distinction

  • Research maps what the thing is.
  • SCOUT decides whether the thing changes what you should do.

Verdicts

Return exactly one verdict.

  • GO-now: There is a real apply edge to an active goal, project, workflow, product, or bottleneck, the first step is cheap enough, and acting now beats current alternatives.
  • PARK: There is a real apply edge, but it is not worth acting on yet because timing, maturity, confidence, capacity, or priority is wrong. Include a clear revisit trigger.
  • KILL: There is no meaningful apply edge, or the cost/risk outweighs the value. Include the disqualifier so the topic stays dead unless facts change.

Operating principle: scan before researching

Before deep research, check whether enough context already exists.

Use whatever context sources are available in the current environment:

  • current conversation
  • project docs
  • local files
  • team knowledge base
  • memory system
  • notes database
  • prior decisions
  • issue tracker
  • CRM or analytics summaries, only if the user authorized that context
  • web search, only when current external facts are needed

If prior context already contains a recent, sound take, do not re-run a full investigation. Check only the fact that could flip the verdict.

Branches

Choose one branch and say which branch you used.

1. Empty context → Full pass

Use when there is no useful prior context.

Steps:

  1. Identify what the thing is.
  2. Identify its mechanism: how it creates value or risk.
  3. Identify evidence quality: proof, examples, maturity, adoption, caveats.
  4. Project it onto active goals, projects, workflows, products, and bottlenecks.
  5. Score value, cost, maturity, urgency, and current-load fit.
  6. Return GO-now, PARK, or KILL.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 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. 8d ago First seen · 214 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 5c6abdbc0c59

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scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository AnkitClassicVision/ankit_shared_skills (11 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,499 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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