idea-scout

idea-scout is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from regen-coordination/org-os-template. It costs 13 tokens per session (1,296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A research tool that scans an organization’s collected knowledge, projects, and relationships for unmet needs and possible new ideas. It looks for repeated themes, missing solutions, and emerging patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after adding articles, podcast notes, or meeting insights, and when reviewing ecosystem gaps or planning new work.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered notes and processed content into a clearer list of opportunities. It also helps avoid suggesting ideas that already exist.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after adding articles, podcast notes, or meeting insights, and when reviewing ecosystem gaps or planning new work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/regen-coordination/org-os-template/idea-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 regen-coordination/org-os-template --skill idea-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/regen-coordination/org-os-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,296 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 $0.00013 $0.01296
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00130

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1c3eb3f9493a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

idea-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 8d 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/idea-scout/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Idea Scout

When to Use

Activate after knowledge processing (blog posts, podcast episodes, meeting insights have been added to knowledge/). Run periodically to surface new ecosystem gaps and opportunities.

Also activate when:

  • Operator asks "what gaps exist in our ecosystem?"
  • After processing a batch of new content
  • During autoresearch improvement loops
  • When MASTERPLAN.md activations include idea scouting

Procedure

Step 1: Read Current State

  1. Read data/knowledge-manifest.yaml — understand which domains exist and their coverage
  2. Read data/ideas.yaml — understand existing ideas to avoid duplicates
  3. Read data/projects.yaml — understand active work to identify adjacencies
  4. Read data/relationships.yaml — understand partner capabilities

Step 2: Scan Knowledge for Patterns

For each knowledge domain in knowledge/:

  1. Read the _index.yaml for domain overview
  2. Scan topic pages for:
    • Gaps mentioned: "there is no...", "missing...", "need for..."
    • Repeated themes: Topics appearing across multiple sources
    • Unmet needs: Problems described without solutions
    • Emerging trends: New patterns not yet addressed by projects
    • Cross-domain opportunities: Insights from combining domains

Step 3: Evaluate Candidates

For each potential idea, evaluate:

  • Novelty: Is this already in ideas.yaml or projects.yaml?
  • Relevance: Does it align with the org's mission (SOUL.md)?
  • Feasibility: Can the org's skills and network address this?
  • Evidence: How many sources mention this gap?
  • Impact: How significant would filling this gap be?

Step 4: Surface Ideas

For ideas that pass evaluation:

  1. Create entry in data/ideas.yaml:
- id: "idea-[incremental]"
  title: "[Descriptive title]"
  status: "surfaced"
  source: "knowledge/[domain]/[topic].md"
  submitted_by: "agent"
  champions: []
  ecosystem_gap: "[One-sentence gap description]"
  description: "[2-3 sentence description]"
  hatched_repo: null
  skills_needed: ["[skill-1]", "[skill-2]"]
  resources:
    - "knowledge/[domain]/[related-topic].md"
  compensation:
    model: null
    pool: null
  created: "[today]"
  updated: "[today]"
  votes: 0
  comments: []

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 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. 8d ago First seen · 173 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 1c3eb3f9493a

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idea-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository regen-coordination/org-os-template (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,296 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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