scout-briefing

scout-briefing is a skill for Claude Code from Raven-Scout/scout-plugin. It costs 40 tokens per session (243 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that starts a Scout morning briefing session as a background process on the local machine. Scout gathers information from connected work tools and produces briefing outputs.

In plain words
What is it for?
It launches the scheduled-style briefing, detects whether the run is a morning, consolidation, or weekend briefing, and reports where to follow its log.
Why use it?
It removes the need to start the session manually or determine which briefing mode applies. It also makes the process ID and log location available for monitoring.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the scout plugin — 4 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It launches the scheduled-style briefing, detects whether the run is a morning, consolidation, or weekend briefing, and reports where to follow its log.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/raven-scout/scout-plugin/scout-briefing
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Raven-Scout/scout-plugin --skill scout-briefing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Raven-Scout/scout-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install scout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 5 commands, 1 hook.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 243 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 $0.00040 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00024

Measured 10d ago against content hash 0e4c51049739, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scout-briefing 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 10d 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/scout-briefing/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Launch a SCOUT morning briefing session as a background process on this machine.

Do the following steps:

  1. Run nohup bash ~/Scout/run-scout.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 & to launch the briefing session in the background. Capture the PID.

  2. Find the most recent log file: ls -t ~/Scout/.scout-logs/scout-*.log | head -1

  3. Report to the user:

    • Confirm the briefing session is running and show the PID
    • Show the log file path so they can tail it if they want: tail -f <log_file>
    • Remind them that briefing runs typically take 10-15 minutes and cover: calendar scan, Gmail, Slack, Linear, GitHub PRs — producing a fresh action-items file and updating the knowledge base. The session mode (morning briefing vs consolidation vs weekend briefing) is auto-detected from the current time and day.
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. 10d ago First seen · 18 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 0e4c51049739

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scout-briefing is a skill published in the GitHub repository Raven-Scout/scout-plugin (16 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 243 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.