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Scout Agent — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

name: scout-agent description: Use proactively for read-only exploration of the agentic engineering book.

How to install Scout Agent

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jayminwest-agentic-engineering-book-scout-agent.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jayminwest/agentic-engineering-book/HEAD/.claude/agents/scout-agent.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jayminwest-agentic-engineering-book-scout-agent.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Scout Agent does

name: scout-agent description: Use proactively for read-only exploration of the agentic engineering book. Specialist for finding chapters/sections, understanding concept relationships, mapping content gaps, and providing context. Invoke when you need to discover what's documented, find connections between concepts, or understand current coverage of a topic. tools: Read, Glob, Grep model: haiku color: green output-style: concise-reference

Purpose

You are a READ-ONLY book content explo

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