code-scout

code-scout is a skill for Codex from di-sukharev/code-scout-skill. It costs 45 tokens per session (193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only repository-mapping helper for non-trivial coding tasks. It gathers evidence about likely code owners, connections between components, tests, and repository rules before implementation begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before implementing, debugging, reviewing, or planning work that spans files, modules, layers, interfaces, or tests.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent searching an unfamiliar codebase and helps prevent changes in the wrong files or missed tests.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it before implementing, debugging, reviewing, or planning work that spans files, modules, layers, interfaces, or tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/di-sukharev/code-scout-skill/code-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 di-sukharev/code-scout-skill --skill code-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/di-sukharev/code-scout-skill

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 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 193 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 $0.00045 $0.00193
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00077
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00039
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00019

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0f459cec49ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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.

code-scout/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Use one cheaper sub-agent without chat history. Choose its effort level based on the task. Give it the repository path, task, questions, and relevant context. Keep the search read-only.

Request a concise report in English, with code references and clearly marked inferences:

  • Code map: absolute paths, current line numbers, symbols, and their purpose.
  • Connections: relevant callers, data flow, data model, contracts, and project rules.
  • Tests and reuse: relevant tests, check commands, and existing code worth reusing.
  • Gaps: unanswered questions, missing evidence, and where you looked.

Read the relevant code from the report and continue the original task.

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. 6d ago Changed · -13 lines · +2 tokens per session 0f459cec49ca
  2. 14d ago Changed · -27 lines · +8 tokens per session 6a460f2948c8
  3. 24d ago Changed · +7 lines · -5 tokens per session 0b4daf5648f0
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines 2deac81f7b09
  5. 1mo ago Changed · -30 lines · -3 tokens per session aa405a06b0dd
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines · +2 tokens per session 2da2a2be491f
  7. 1mo ago Changed · -178 lines · -94 tokens per session 3a291a9d01ee
  8. 1mo ago First seen · 246 lines · 135 tokens per session scan A 2e7a4410df78

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository di-sukharev/code-scout-skill (22 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 193 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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