overcast-scanner

overcast-scanner is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kdr/overcast. It costs 66 tokens per session (1,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A monitoring workflow for police dispatch and calls-for-service data from Socrata, a platform used by public agencies to publish open datasets. It can register a feed, check it once, and monitor recent calls over time on a map.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a preset or custom city dispatch feed, validate the feed, monitor new calls on an interval, map their locations, and compare call types with an investigation.
Why use it?
It turns a public-data feed into a repeatable near-real-time view of reported incidents without requiring a custom data collector.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the overcast plugin — 35 skills, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kdr/overcast/overcast-scanner
Any agent
npx skills add kdr/overcast --skill overcast-scanner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdr/overcast

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install overcast, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 35 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,021 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00066 $0.01021
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00511
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00102

Measured 4d ago against content hash fe58fa83e4df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

overcast-scanner 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 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.

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.

skills/overcast-scanner/SKILL.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

overcast-scanner

Use this skill to watch police CAD / calls-for-service over an area in near-real time. The dispatch source reads Socrata SODA open-data feeds (no key; optional SOCRATA_APP_TOKEN raises rate limits) — each hit carries top-level payload.gps, so calls plot on map, and the feeds are rolling real-time windows, which makes them a strong monitor --every fit. Use the broad overcast skill and overcast/reference/verbs.md for exact flags.

Workflow

  1. Register a dispatch feed. Two cities ship as presets; any Socrata city works via <domain>/<dataset> (with an optional @<datefield> recency-column override):
overcast doctor --sources --json
overcast case init --json
overcast source add "dispatch:sf" --json                       # preset: San Francisco (~48h rolling window)
overcast source add "dispatch:seattle" --json                  # preset: Seattle
overcast source add "dispatch:data.cityofchicago.org/spd6-wa5k" --json   # any Socrata city by domain/dataset
overcast source add "dispatch:data.example.gov/abcd-1234@call_datetime" --json  # override the recency column
  1. Validate with a single scan before leaving a loop running — confirm rows parse and carry gps/call-type/id columns (auto-detected per row):
overcast scan --source dispatch --limit 20 --json
  1. Stand the scanner up. media.ref is a stable per-row SODA deep link, which is the monitor dedup key, so re-polls don't re-surface the same call:
overcast monitor --once --json                                 # one diff pass, scheduler-friendly
overcast monitor --source dispatch --every 15m --limit 20 --json   # rolling real-time watch
  1. Plot the geolocated calls and triage them against the case. Hits carry payload.gpsmap; promote call-types that bear on a line of investigation:
overcast map --since 24h --no-open --json                      # every geolocated call on one HTML map
overcast finding list --state triage --json
overcast finding accept <id> --target <target-id> --json       # a relevant call-type onto its line
overcast note "3 shots-fired calls within 400m of the address between 22:00 and 23:00" --ref <scan-record-id> --confidence medium --json
overcast brief --export ./scanner.html --json

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 4d ago First seen · 86 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A fe58fa83e4df

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overcast-scanner is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdr/overcast (15 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 1,021 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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