setup

setup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from shidoyu/scout. It costs 54 tokens per session (3,849 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A guided setup skill for scout, a search and web-fetching tool. It helps configure optional services such as Context7, Jina Reader, Exa, and Playwright.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up search engines and fetching tools, adding API keys, troubleshooting failed fetches, and improving search results.
Why use it?
It explains what each optional service adds and shows configuration changes and commands before applying them.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the scout plugin — 3 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install scout, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 MCP server.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for setup

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shidoyu/scout/setup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/shidoyu/scout/setup)
Your own site
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,849 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00054 $0.03849
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01924
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00770
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00385

Measured 4d ago against content hash 88f3a0c6f91b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

setup scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 600 "$MCP_JSON"
skills/setup/SKILL.md · 312 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 312 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scout:setup — Guided Configuration

Purpose

Walk the user through configuring scout's optional search and fetching tools via interactive dialogue. Each step explains what the tool adds and lets the user decide.

Core Principle

"scout already works. These options make it stronger. The user chooses."

Transparency Protocol

Every configuration change must be visible before it happens. This builds trust and lets the user understand what scout is doing to their environment.

  1. Show the diff before writing — Before editing .mcp.json or any config file, display the exact JSON block that will be added. Format: "Adding this to [file path]:" → fenced JSON block → then write. No extra confirmation needed — the step-level consent ("Install") already covers it.

  2. Echo commands before running — Before executing shell commands (e.g., npx playwright install chromium, claude mcp add ..., pip install ...), display the command first. Format: "Running:" → fenced command block → then execute. Do NOT ask for separate confirmation here — the step-level consent already covers it.

  3. State the footprint — For installs that add significant disk usage (e.g., Playwright ~200MB), state the approximate size before the user consents.

These rules apply to every step below. They do not add extra confirmation prompts — they make the existing prompts more informative.

Interaction Rules

  • Respond in the user's language with dynamic equivalence — check the locale: line from the pre-check output (e.g. ja_JP → Japanese, es_ES → Spanish, en_US → English). ALL dialogue, explanations, step titles, and option descriptions MUST be in that language. Translate with dynamic equivalence (functional equivalence), not word-for-word. Prioritize natural, idiomatic phrasing that a native speaker would use — avoid translationese. Technical terms (API, MCP, Playwright, Context7, Jina Reader, Exa) stay in English. The English templates below are for content guidance only — NEVER output them as-is.
  • Frame each tool as an upgrade, not a missing piece
  • Every step is skippable — do not ask why if the user declines
  • State facts about what each tool adds, not what's lost without it
  • No excessive celebration on completion. A simple confirmation is enough
  • Never install or configure anything without explicit consent

Read the full file on GitHub · 312 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. 4d ago First seen · 312 lines · 54 tokens per session scan B 88f3a0c6f91b

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setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository shidoyu/scout (3 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 3,849 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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