mk:scout

mk:scout is a skill for Claude Code from ngocsangyem/MeowKit. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,055 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A parallel codebase-scanning tool that maps files, project structure, architecture, and likely task complexity before work begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps locate files, understand project structure, prepare plans, and investigate work spanning multiple directories.
Why use it?
It reduces the time spent manually searching a large or unfamiliar codebase and helps reveal where related code lives.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit It helps locate files, understand project structure, prepare plans, and investigate work spanning multiple directories.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ngocsangyem/meowkit/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 ngocsangyem/MeowKit --skill scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ngocsangyem/MeowKit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,055 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 $0.00076 $0.01055
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00528
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00105

Measured 9d ago against content hash 19d949dbe8d6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mk: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 9d 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.

.claude/skills/scout/SKILL.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scout

Fast, parallel codebase exploration using Explore subagents. Divides the project into segments, searches them simultaneously, and returns a consolidated report.

When to Use

  • Starting a feature that spans multiple directories
  • User asks to "find", "locate", or "search for" files
  • Before planning (Phase 1) on complex tasks — understand what exists first
  • Debugging session requiring file relationship understanding
  • User asks about project structure or where functionality lives

Workflow Integration

Operates in Phase 0 (Orient) and Phase 1 (Plan).

  • Orchestrator invokes scout before planner on COMPLEX tasks
  • Planner may invoke scout when the technical approach needs codebase understanding
  • Developer may invoke scout when implementation touches unfamiliar areas

Quick Start

/mk:scout authentication      → find all auth-related files
/mk:scout database migrations  → find DB migration files
/mk:scout [any search target]  → parallel search across codebase

Scout Process

  1. Analyze — parse user prompt, identify search targets (keywords, file types)
  2. Determine scale — calculate SCALE using formula in references/scouting-strategy.md
  3. Apply search scope — include Tier 1 always, Tier 2 if task-relevant, exclude Tier 3 always (see references/search-scope.md)
  4. Divide directories — assign each Explore agent a distinct scope (no overlap)
  5. Spawn agents — all in a single message for parallel execution (see references/scouting-strategy.md)
  6. Collect results — deduplicate, merge, note gaps/timeouts
  7. Build report — fill structured template (see references/report-and-handoff.md)
  8. Execute handoff — route to next agent per handoff protocol

References

Load these only when executing the corresponding step — not upfront.

Reference When to load What it contains
search-scope.md Step 3 — applying scope rules Tier 1/2/3 directory lists, justification, exclusion patterns
scouting-strategy.md Steps 2, 4, 5 — spawning agents SCALE formula, directory division rules, Explore agent prompt template, parallel execution, file reading patterns
report-and-handoff.md Steps 7, 8 — writing output Report template with all sections, handoff protocol per phase, memory integration, context budget

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 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. 9d ago First seen · 97 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 19d949dbe8d6

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mk:scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository ngocsangyem/MeowKit (14 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,055 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.