Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to opencue/cuecards. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opencue/cuecards/main/.agents/skills/vc-scout/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opencue/cuecardsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/opencue/cuecards/vc-scout)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/opencue/cuecards/vc-scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/opencue/cuecards/vc-scout.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00034 | $0.00771 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00017 | $0.00385 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00007 | $0.00154 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00077 |
Grade A, and why
vc: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 3d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 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 local shell search plus optional parallel
research-agentdelegation (./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
- Analyze user prompt to identify search targets
- Use a wide range of Grep and Glob patterns to find relevant files and estimate scale of the codebase
- Use local shell search first, then optionally spawn parallel
research-agentworkers with divided directories when the search space is large - 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
- Parallel task registration and external orchestration patterns are optional, not required for normal scouting in this repo
- See
references/task-management-scouting.mdonly when you are intentionally coordinating a larger parallel scout workflow
4. Spawn Parallel Agents
Load appropriate reference based on decision tree:
- Internal (Default):
references/internal-scouting.md(shell search plus optionalresearch-agentparallelism) - External:
references/external-scouting.md(Gemini/OpenCode)
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.
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.
- 3d ago First seen · 91 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A c17fbd20b6c8
vc:scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository opencue/cuecards (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 771 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 2026-09-03.
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