github-scout

github-scout is a skill for Claude Code from DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS. It costs 13 tokens per session (292 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for investigating and summarizing GitHub repositories, which are online projects that store source code and its history. It searches for a repository, examines its files and important code, and produces a research report.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find repositories, inspect their structure and key files, understand how they work, and save a research dossier.
Why use it?
It turns an unfamiliar code repository into a structured overview without mixing the investigation into the main working changes. It also preserves the findings locally.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find repositories, inspect their structure and key files, understand how they work, and save a research dossier.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dds-solutions/ai-tadpole-os/explorer-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 DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS --skill explorer-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 292 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 $0.00013 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00029

Measured 10d ago against content hash b1d984179ae5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-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 10d 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.

.agent/skills/explorer-scout/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

[!IMPORTANT] AI Context & Knowledge Heritage

  • Subsystem: Agent Skills Registry / explorer-scout
  • Architecture: @docs ARCHITECTURE:Documentation
  • Failure Path: Information drift, legacy terminology, or documentation mismatch.
  • Observability: Traceability via execution/parity_guard.py

GitHub Scouting Workflow

💡 Isolated Execution: Use @[skills/research] to run external repository exploration on a throwaway branch (research/<repo>) to keep working git state clean.

  1. Search Phase: Use github:search_repositories to find the target repository.
  2. Structural Analysis: List the repository contents to understand the file structure.
  3. Content Synthesis: Read key files (README.md, main logic) to understand the project architecture.
  4. Final Report: Synthesize findings into a research dossier.
  5. Archiving: Commit findings to the local workspace.
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. 10d ago First seen · 26 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b1d984179ae5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 292 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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