ck:scout

A codebase search assistant that looks through files and directories in parallel, using built-in or external helper agents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work on a feature, debugging, locating code, or learning a project's structure.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent finding relevant files and understanding how different parts of a project are connected.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/manhvann/codexkit/scout
Any agent
npx skills add manhvann/codexkit --skill scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/manhvann/codexkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 743 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 $0.00042 $0.00743
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00074

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd203d859ab2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ck: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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/scout/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scout

Fast, token-efficient codebase scouting using parallel agents to find files needed for tasks.

Arguments

  • Default: Scout using built-in Explore subagents in parallel (./references/internal-scouting.md)
  • ext: Scout using external Gemini/OpenCode CLI tools in parallel (./references/external-scouting.md)

When to Use

  • Beginning work on feature spanning multiple directories
  • User mentions needing to "find", "locate", or "search for" files
  • Starting debugging session requiring file relationships understanding
  • User asks about project structure or where functionality lives
  • Before changes that might affect multiple codebase parts

Quick Start

  1. Analyze user prompt to identify search targets
  2. Use a wide range of Grep and Glob patterns to find relevant files and estimate scale of the codebase
  3. Spawn parallel agents with divided directories when available, or run parallel file reads/searches
  4. Collect results into concise report

Configuration

Read from .codex/.ck.json:

  • gemini.model - Gemini model (default: gemini-3-flash-preview)

Workflow

1. Analyze Task

  • Parse user prompt for search targets
  • Identify key directories, patterns, file types, lines of code
  • Determine optimal SCALE value of subagents to spawn

2. Divide and Conquer

  • Split codebase into logical segments per agent
  • Assign each agent specific directories or patterns
  • Ensure no overlap, maximize coverage

3. Register Scout Tasks

  • Skip if: Agent count ≤ 2 (overhead exceeds benefit)
  • If task tools exist, check existing scout tasks first
  • If not found, create one tracked task per agent with scope metadata
  • See references/task-management-scouting.md for patterns and examples

4. Spawn Parallel Agents

Load appropriate reference based on decision tree:

  • Internal (Default): references/internal-scouting.md (Explore subagents)
  • External: references/external-scouting.md (Gemini/OpenCode)

Notes:

  • Mark each tracked task in_progress before spawning its agent when task tools exist
  • Prompt detailed instructions for each subagent with exact directories or files it should read
  • Remember that each subagent has less than 200K tokens of context window
  • Amount of subagents to-be-spawned depends on the current system resources available and amount of files to be scanned
  • Each subagent must return a detailed summary report to a main agent

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 2d ago First seen · 90 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A fd203d859ab2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ck:scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository manhvann/codexkit (88 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 743 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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