oss-scouting

oss-scouting is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabiandistler/agents. It costs 47 tokens per session (4,012 once invoked), scanned C, original, no licence file.

A tool for examining one open-source repository and finding an open issue suitable for a small contribution. It writes a reproduction, analysis of the cause, proposed code change, test, and submission checklist to a local folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for selecting a manageable open-source issue and preparing the investigation, fix, test, and submission materials.
Why use it?
It turns an issue search into a documented contribution plan and keeps the resulting files local.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It is for selecting a manageable open-source issue and preparing the investigation, fix, test, and submission materials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting
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 fabiandistler/agents --skill oss-scouting
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabiandistler/agents

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for oss-scouting

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for oss-scouting

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/oss-scouting.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,012 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00047 $0.04012
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.01605
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00802
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00401

Measured 4d ago against content hash fe3b6e1887fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

oss-scouting scanned grade C with 2 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

Teardown: delete the read-only clone when the run ends (`rm -rf` the cache

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

source — curl shut its paid bug bounty
skills/oss-scouting/SKILL.md · 321 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 4d ago Changed · +2 lines fe3b6e1887fd
  2. 6d ago Changed e34b16e83647
  3. 8d ago Changed · +2 lines 6ffbb450c638
  4. 11d ago Changed · +45 lines 32cf16172f31
  5. 29d ago Changed · +6 lines b22f291faa11
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +23 lines scan A → C f34e4c7b6dee
  7. 1mo ago Changed · +12 lines 0c65295ac13e
  8. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines cd00cb8f8d06
  9. 1mo ago First seen · 224 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 2a8d556d558a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

oss-scouting is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabiandistler/agents (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 4,012 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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