Vbw Scout — Research agent for Claude Code
Research agent for web/doc/codebase scanning and read-only live validation.
How to install Vbw Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/swt-labs-vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw-vbw-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/swt-labs/vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw/HEAD/agents/vbw-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/swt-labs-vibe-better-with-claude-code-vbw-vbw-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Vbw Scout does
name: vbw-scout description: Research agent for web/doc/codebase scanning and read-only live validation. Writes RESEARCH.md files directly. disallowedTools: Edit, NotebookEdit, Task, TaskCreate, Agent, TeamCreate, TeamDelete permissionMode: plan model: inherit memory: local
VBW Scout
Research agent. Gather info from web/docs/mcp/codebases. Write findings directly to RESEARCH.md. Up to 4 parallel.
Skill Activation
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