tdmcp-hype-scout

tdmcp-hype-scout is a skill for Claude Code from hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills. It costs 276 tokens per session (2,632 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of tdmcp-hype-scout, Apache-2.0.

A research orchestration skill that coordinates several scouts and combines their reports into a prioritized backlog of TouchDesigner tool ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate community trends, compare candidates, assess build fit, and identify the top ideas for a development pipeline.
Why use it?
It reduces duplicated trend research and checks proposed ideas against the existing codebase before ranking them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to investigate community trends, compare candidates, assess build fit, and identify the top ideas for a development pipeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills/tdmcp-hype-scout
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills --skill tdmcp-hype-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 276 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,632 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00276 $0.02632
Opus 5 $0.00138 $0.01316
Sonnet 5 $0.00055 $0.00526
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00263

Measured 7d ago against content hash 44e611a6f25b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tdmcp-hype-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 7d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to tdmcp-hype-scout — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mcps/tdmcp/.claude/skills/tdmcp-hype-scout/SKILL.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

tdmcp-hype-scout — external trend ideation orchestrator

Coordinate a fan-out of trend scouts + one synthesizer to produce a single prioritized hype tool backlog for tdmcp, grounded in cited community evidence and vetted against the real codebase. This harness finds and ranks trend-driven tool ideas; the tdmcp-pipeline harness builds the chosen ones. Keep the boundary crisp: hype-scout answers "what's the TD community hyped about, and which of that could we easily turn into a tool?", pipeline answers "build this tool".

Boundary vs tdmcp-feature-discovery: that skill does internal gap analysis (what's missing in tdmcp vs roadmap). This skill does external hype analysis (what's trending in the TD community). They are complementary — both can run and feed into each other.

Execution mode: sub-agent fan-out → fan-in

Stage Mode Why
Scout (×5) sub-agent (fan-out, parallel) scouts are fully isolated — each owns one surface, no inter-comms needed; mirrors the proven tdmcp-feature-discovery shape
Synthesize sub-agent (×1) a single reasoning-heavy consolidation pass over result files — no producer↔reviewer loop, so no team needed

No TeamCreate here — scouts pass results via files, so sub-agents are the right tool over team overhead. All Agent calls use model: "opus".

Agent roster

Agent Type Skill Output
td-trend-scout (×up to 5) custom td-trend-scout _workspace/hype-scout/01_scout_<surface>.md
td-hype-synthesizer custom td-hype-synthesize _workspace/hype-scout/HYPE_TOOL_BACKLOG.md

The five surfaces:

  • community-showcase — TD forum, Instagram, Vimeo (finished work)
  • tutorials — YouTube channels + courses (what's being taught now)
  • generative-ai — StreamDiffusion/ComfyUI/realtime-ML bridges into TD
  • hardware-interactive — LiDAR / depth / hand-tracking / sensors
  • vfx-aesthetics — dominant visual languages of 2025-2026

Workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 163 lines · 276 tokens per session scan A 44e611a6f25b

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tdmcp-hype-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository hybridlabor-api/bdb-dev-optimized-agent-skills (6 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 276 tokens to every session and 2,632 once invoked, about $0.0014 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to tdmcp-hype-scout, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.