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explorer-scout

explorer-scout is a skill for Claude Code from DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS. It costs 26 tokens per session (754 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.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **Workflow Binding**: Used directly during the [`/github_scout`](../../workflows/github_scout.md) workflow..

not rated 8repo changed 12d ago A scan 26 tokens original MIT

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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View source ↗ DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS dds-solutions.github.io
Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 754 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 $0.00026 $0.00754
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00302
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00151
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1b7b1446e91c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

explorer-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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/repo_scout.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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 · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

[!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 ([SKILL])

GitHub & External Repository Scouting Protocol

Purpose: Systematic discovery, architectural extraction, and capability indexing of external open-source repositories. Workflow Binding: Used directly during the /github_scout workflow.

🎯 Progressive Disclosure & L3 Reference Index

Read REQUIRED core standards below; consult deep L3 Reference Guides on demand:

L3 Reference Guide / Tool Purpose Trigger / When to Load
references/repo_scouting_recipes.md Branch isolation procedures, dependency extraction checklists, licensing rules Inspecting or cloning third-party codebases
scripts/repo_scout.py Deterministic repository manifest scanner, license finder, and entrypoint extractor Automated repository analysis or self-test verification

🔄 The 5-Phase Scouting Workflow

1. SEARCH          ➔ Discover candidate repositories matching architectural requirements.
2. BRANCH ISOLATE  ➔ Check out a disposable branch (`git checkout -b research/<repo>`).
3. ARCHAEOLOGY     ➔ Scan manifests (`Cargo.toml`, `package.json`), entrypoints, and license.
4. SYNTHESIS       ➔ Document architectural wins into a structured research dossier.
5. CLEANUP         ➔ Discard throwaway branches to keep sovereign working tree clean.

🛡️ Socratic Gate: Licensing & Sandboxing

Before integrating patterns or code from external repositories:

  1. License Compatibility: Is the external code licensed permissively (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSD)? (Avoid AGPL/GPL contamination).
  2. Dependency Overhead: Does the external pattern introduce fragile third-party dependencies?
  3. Sandbox Isolation: Is external exploration isolated on throwaway branches?

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 12d ago Changed · +48 lines · +13 tokens per session 1b7b1446e91c
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 26 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b1d984179ae5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

explorer-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository DDS-Solutions/AI-TadPole-OS (8 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 754 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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