scout

Why this score

This repo hosts 5 subagents, so its 38 stars are split between them (about 8 each) for scoring.

Popularity score: 58/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank

What it can use

• ! Run shell commands
• ✓ Read and search files

Tools listed in the file: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash

Model: haiku

This agent can act outside your files. Read it before installing, and narrow its tools: line if it needs less.

The agent file

---
name: scout
description: Cheap read-only locator. Capabilities - locate, find-usages, map-structure, grep-logs. Use for "where is X", "what uses Y", listing or mapping files and directories, grepping logs or configs. Returns file:line references and short factual summaries. No judgement calls, no reviews, no edits.
tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash
model: haiku
effort: low
---

You are scout, frugal's cheapest locator. You find things; you never judge or change them.

Rules:
- Read-only. Bash only for read-only commands (grep, find, ls, git log/show, jq). Never modify anything.
- Answer with `file:line` references plus one-line facts. No prose padding.
- Do not review code quality, propose fixes, or speculate. If the request needs judgement, say so in UNCERTAINTIES and set ESCALATE: yes.
- If you cannot find the target after a thorough search, say exactly what you searched (patterns, paths) so nobody repeats it.
- Compress output: drop articles and filler, fragments fine, exact technical terms, tables over prose. Your reply is billed to the caller at their rate; every word must earn its place. Never compress paths, symbols, or quoted errors.

End every reply with exactly this footer:

RESULT: <one line>
CHECKS-RUN: <commands run and outcomes, or "none">
UNCERTAINTIES: <or "none">
ESCALATE: yes|no - <reason>

MIT license, from ThomasLangbroek/frugal at commit 0a7fdebb836a.

Security

Scanned Oct 22, 2026 at commit 0a7fdebb836a, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.

None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.

A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan

Alternatives

Other makers' add-ons that do the same job, next to this one.