scout

scout is a skill for Claude Code from Bumblebiber/its-over-9k. It costs 80 tokens per session (821 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that guides efficient context loading when working in a codebase, the files and history of a software project. It recommends mapping and searching first, then reading only relevant file sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before exploring files, searching broadly, investigating TODOs, or finding where a feature is handled in a repository.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary file reading and helps keep large codebases, including monorepos, manageable. A monorepo is one repository containing multiple projects or packages.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: built for aider.

Part of the o9k-scout plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it before exploring files, searching broadly, investigating TODOs, or finding where…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bumblebiber/its-over-9k/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 Bumblebiber/its-over-9k --skill scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Bumblebiber/its-over-9k

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install o9k-scout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 scout

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/bumblebiber/its-over-9k/scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/bumblebiber/its-over-9k/scout.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 821 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 $0.00080 $0.00821
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00411
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00082

Measured 6d ago against content hash e06ac7ef4f60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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/o9k-scout/skills/scout/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scout — Context Discipline

The cheapest token is the one never loaded. Explore structure, not content.

The ladder — always start at the top

  1. Memory first. Project already known? Ask the memory MCP (load_project or search) before touching the filesystem — a 300-token briefing beats a 20k-token re-exploration.
  2. Map second. Need repo orientation? Build/read ONE overview: file tree (ls/glob), or a generated map (codesight CONTEXT.md, aider-style repo-map) if available. Cache it mentally — never regenerate mid-session.
  3. Search third. Locate by symbol/pattern (grep, ast-grep, Serena find_symbol) — get file:line, not file contents.
  4. Read last, read narrow. Open only the located range (offset/limit around the hit). Full-file reads only when the file is small or the task is a whole-file rewrite.

Hard rules

  • Never read a file to find something — that's what search is for.
  • Never re-read a file you just edited — you know what's in it.
  • Never load generated artifacts (lockfiles, dist/, minified, fixtures) unless they ARE the subject of the task.
  • Broad sweep needed? (many files, unknown naming, "where is X handled?") → don't do it inline; hand it to dispatch path A and receive the conclusion only. External CLI coding workers with a team-up roster → dispatch path B (mailbox + watcher), not inline exploration.
  • Docs/logs over ~200 lines: extract the relevant slice (grep the error ID, read the section) — never the whole thing.

Symbol work

If the Serena MCP (or an LSP-backed tool) is installed, symbol-level lookups and edits go through it: find_symbol / find_references / targeted insert replace an 8-step grep-and-read loop with one call. Scout owns the overview; Serena owns the symbols. Never run both for the same question.

High-volume shell output

Never diagnose with bare npm test, vitest run, or eslint . when the runner can dump tens of KB into the transcript. Redirect → extract → act on summary.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 6d ago First seen · 67 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A e06ac7ef4f60

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scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository Bumblebiber/its-over-9k (0 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 821 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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