topic-scout

topic-scout is a skill for Claude Code from tigerless-labs/auto-gtm. It costs 136 tokens per session (2,055 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A report-building skill that combines product topics from repository changes with recent builder and web discussions. X and Reddit are social platforms where developers and communities share posts and discussions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find product topics worth posting about and review recent builder, blog, podcast, X, and Reddit hotspots.
Why use it?
It brings launch ideas and current discussion topics into one report, so you do not have to gather those inputs separately.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the auto-gtm plugin — 8 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to find product topics worth posting about and review recent builder, blog, podcast, X, and Reddit hotspots.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tigerless-labs/auto-gtm/topic-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 tigerless-labs/auto-gtm --skill topic-scout
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tigerless-labs/auto-gtm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install auto-gtm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 1 command.

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 topic-scout

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tigerless-labs/auto-gtm/topic-scout/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tigerless-labs/auto-gtm/topic-scout)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tigerless-labs/auto-gtm/topic-scout"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tigerless-labs/auto-gtm/topic-scout/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 topic-scout

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 136 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,055 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 102
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00136 $0.02055
Opus 5 $0.00068 $0.01027
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00205

Measured 9d ago against content hash cff77a53361a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

topic-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 9d 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/topic-scout/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

topic-scout — one topic report, two parts

Turn a repo + today's internet into a short topic report. Ask the user nothing — and decide for them: the few product topics most worth posting, plus recent hotspots in full, all in one md. Both parts always run. Drafting the post/comment is downstream (x-content-generator, reddit-post-drafter, the comment skills).

Storage: read/refresh ~/Documents/auto-gtm/ — see ../gtm-shared/references/storage.md. The promoted product/repo + highlights come from there (or the trigger).

Say what's coming — first line, before any fetch

The report takes a while because it reads several sources. Set the expectation instead of asking a question: emit this line before the first fetch, then run both parts without stopping.

Building your topic report — A: launch + update topics from your highlights and merged PRs; B: builder digest (X, blogs, podcasts) + recent hotspots. Reading several sources, so this takes a moment.

Announce once. Never turn it into a question, a menu, or a chance to pick one part.

Part a — product topics (what you have to say)

Ask nothing, run both sources every time, and know the quota before you start: launch_topics_max = 2, update_topics_max = 2 (each type capped on its own; neither borrows the other's slots). Read all the highlights and all the recent merged PRs first — judgment needs the whole field — then write only the ones that make the cut. Never draft the full list and trim it afterwards: that yields the first two of nine instead of a topic you actually composed. What doesn't make the cut doesn't appear — not as a list, not as a footnote. The user wants a decision, not a menu.

What makes the cut — value to the developer audience: will a reader change their mind or do something differently because of this? Not "is it true", not "is it the newest", not "have I covered everything". Coverage is not the standard.

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 9d ago First seen · 109 lines · 136 tokens per session scan A cff77a53361a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

topic-scout is a skill published in the GitHub repository tigerless-labs/auto-gtm (344 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 136 tokens to every session and 2,055 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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