scout

scout is a skill for Codex from dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills. It costs 53 tokens per session (377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only codebase investigation skill that maps an unfamiliar project, traces how it runs, identifies ownership, and locates the files that matter. It builds an evidence-based overview rather than changing the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for onboarding, code walkthroughs, placement questions, and investigations where you need the entry point, runtime flow, responsible modules, key files, and clearly marked uncertainties.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand where behavior lives and how data, state, errors, and side effects move before planning a change.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for onboarding, code walkthroughs, placement questions, and investigations where you need the entry point, runtime flow, responsible modules, key files, and clearly marked uncertainties.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-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 dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills --skill scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 377 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 $0.00053 $0.00377
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash e83233c82f5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 5d 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.

codex/skills/scout/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Scout

Follow the governing instructions and the user's requirements for communication, code style, authorization, and delegation. This skill supplies task-specific guidance, not permission to expand the task. Its workflow and output fields describe internal checks and relevant content, not a mandatory response layout or a progress report. When used within broader authorized work, continue that work through completion rather than stopping to deliver this skill's intermediate result.

Build a compact, evidence-backed map of the relevant code instead of summarizing the repository broadly.

Explore

Start from the observable entry point named by the user. Trace calls, data, state, errors, and side effects until responsibility becomes clear. Read tests and configuration only where they explain behavior. Prefer searches and targeted reads over directory-wide loading.

Record the role of each important file, the public boundary between components, the authoritative source of data, and any generated or external layer. Distinguish verified behavior from an inference.

Answer the actual question

For a walkthrough, describe runtime flow in execution order. For a placement question, identify the owning module and the precedent that supports it. For onboarding, give a mental model and a short reading path. For a change investigation, identify likely touch points without proposing an implementation.

Boundaries

Do not edit files. Do not infer intent from names when implementation or tests can establish it. Do not expand into an architecture review unless the user asks for judgment.

Output

Answer the requested orientation or placement question using the relevant entry point, flow, file links, and uncertainty. Include a reading path or next action only when requested.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 5d ago Changed · +2 lines e83233c82f5b
  2. 12d ago First seen · 27 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 738438d35015

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository dayfinggg/openai-codex-agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 377 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 2026-08-31.

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