scout

scout is a skill for Claude Code from TheWinci/mimirs. It costs 60 tokens per session (526 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A web-research workflow for comparing solutions, competitors, alternatives, or earlier work related to a project decision. It saves the findings and recommendation in project memory for later sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when choosing a library or technical approach, comparing tools, deciding whether to build or adopt something, or checking how others solved a similar problem.
Why use it?
It prevents research and decisions from disappearing when a coding session ends. It also keeps comparisons tied to the project's existing tools and constraints.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the mimirs plugin — 11 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when choosing a library or technical approach, comparing tools, deciding whether to build or adopt something, or checking how others solved a similar problem.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thewinci/mimirs/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 TheWinci/mimirs --skill scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheWinci/mimirs

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install mimirs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 3 hooks.

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 scout

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thewinci/mimirs/scout/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thewinci/mimirs/scout)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for scout

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thewinci/mimirs/scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thewinci/mimirs/scout.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 526 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 $0.00060 $0.00526
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00210
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 90427a5faef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2mo 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/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Scout

Goal: a sourced recommendation for a project decision — and it persists. Web research evaporates; the point of this skill is that the comparison and the why land in mimirs memory, so a later session recalls "we evaluated X vs Y and picked Y" instead of re-researching. Where research answers a question from the codebase and deep-research writes a generic report, scout weighs external options against this project and records the verdict.

  1. Frame the decision — name what's being chosen and the constraints. Ground it in the project: search/read_relevant for what we already use (stack, existing deps, conventions) so the recommendation actually fits. A fast option that doesn't match the stack is not a real option.
  2. Search the web — WebSearch for solutions, competitors, alternatives, and prior art. Cast wide first, then narrow to the serious contenders.
  3. Dig into contenders — WebFetch the primary sources (docs, repos, release notes) for the specifics that decide it: features, tradeoffs, maturity, license, last release / activity, and known issues. Prefer source over summaries.
  4. Test fit — for each contender, check it against the project from step 1: does it match the stack, the constraints, the conventions? read_relevant the code it would touch.
  5. Compare — a short table: option, key tradeoffs, maturity/license, fit for this project. Pick one, with the reason.
  6. Persist — create_checkpoint (type decision) with the comparison, the choice, and why — this is the durable record; stamp the date and the versions you checked, since web facts go stale. annotate a file only when a finding pins to specific code (a CVE on the import site, a deprecated API on the call site) — not for general option notes, which have no file to anchor to.

Finish: the recommendation with its tradeoffs and source links, and confirm it's saved as a checkpoint (with date + versions) so a future session can recall the decision. Flag findings likely to age out.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 90427a5faef5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheWinci/mimirs (30 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 526 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.