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
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Your own site
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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 $0.00030 $0.00263
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00053

Measured 7d ago against content hash 90427a5faef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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 webWebSearch for solutions, competitors, alternatives, and prior art. Cast wide first, then narrow to the serious contenders.
  3. Dig into contendersWebFetch 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. Persistcreate_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. 7d ago First seen · 18 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 90427a5faef5

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scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheWinci/mimirs (29 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 526 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.