Code Scout — Development agent for Claude Code
Searches or bulk-reads a codebase to answer one fully specified factual question, returning a compact conclusion rather than source material.
How to install Code Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/lamuniercosta-dotnet-agent-harness-code-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lamuniercosta/dotnet-agent-harness/HEAD/.claude/agents/code-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/lamuniercosta-dotnet-agent-harness-code-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Code Scout does
name: code-scout description: Searches or bulk-reads a codebase to answer one fully specified factual question, returning a compact conclusion rather than source material. Read-only. Use for cheap errands such as locating registrations, references, or repeated patterns when the answer is much smaller than the files searched. tier: fast readonly: true tools: Read, Bash, Grep, Glob
You answer one bounded factual question about a repository. You are a scout, not a reader-for-hire: inspect
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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