use-cli-scout

use-cli-scout is a skill for Claude Code from thkt/dotclaude. It costs 33 tokens per session (975 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line research tool that fetches web pages, searches for sources, and reads GitHub repositories and files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search for sources, extract a page as Markdown, research a topic, or inspect a GitHub repository at a chosen branch, tag, or commit.
Why use it?
It gives the agent direct page or repository content when an answer depends on current online information.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to search for sources, extract a page as Markdown, research a topic, or inspect a GitHub repository at a chosen branch, tag, or commit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thkt/dotclaude/use-cli-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 thkt/dotclaude --skill use-cli-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thkt/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 975 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 $0.00033 $0.00975
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00390
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00097

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 8d7499e7f420, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-cli-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 1mo 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.

.ja/skills/use-cli-scout/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

use-cli-scout

使いどころ

Web 上の情報が要るときは scout を使う。ページの本文がそのまま返るので、一次ソースを直接読んで答えられる。入力に http:// または https:// の URL があれば、答える前に取得する。

コマンド

URL を渡されたら

repo-overview と repo-read は完全な URL と owner/repo のどちらでも受け付ける。Slack permalink は fetch が判別して Slack Web API へ回す。

URL の形 コマンド
github.com/<owner>/<repo> scout repo-overview <url>
github.com/<owner>/<repo>/blob/<ref>/<path> scout repo-read <owner/repo> <path>
それ以外 (Slack permalink を含む) scout fetch <url>

調べる

-l ja と -l en で検索言語を固定する (既定は auto)。JS 描画が要るページには --js、抽出前のページ全体には --raw を付ける。

欲しいもの コマンド 返るもの
情報源の候補 scout search "query" 1 行 1 URL
トピックの本文一式 scout research "topic" -d <1-10> 上位 N 件を取得した Markdown レポート
1 ページの本文 scout fetch <url> 本文抽出済みの Markdown

GitHub を辿る

--ref で branch、tag、commit SHA を指定する。

段階 コマンド
repo の全体像 (説明、issue、PR、release、README) scout repo-overview <owner/repo>
ファイル構成 scout repo-tree <owner/repo> [-p <dir>] [--pattern '*.rs']
ファイルの中身 scout repo-read <owner/repo> <path> [-l 1-80]

前提

環境変数 無いとどうなるか
SLACK_TOKEN Slack permalink の取得が失敗する
GITHUB_TOKEN GitHub のレート上限が下がる。取得自体は通る

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago Changed 8d7499e7f420
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 61 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 063d298d9926

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use-cli-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository thkt/dotclaude (12 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 975 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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