Docs Scout — Project Management agent for Claude Code
Read-only exploration of a repository and its external documentation for building project docs.
How to install Docs Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/tranedev-agent-docs-bootstrap-docs-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TraneDev/agent-docs-bootstrap/HEAD/agents/docs-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/tranedev-agent-docs-bootstrap-docs-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Docs Scout does
name: docs-scout description: Read-only exploration of a repository and its external documentation for building project docs. Returns facts with evidence; writes only to docs/agents/scratch/. Used by the docs-bootstrap and docs-check skills. claude-code: | disallowedTools: Edit, NotebookEdit opencode: | mode: subagent temperature: 0.1 permission: edit: "*": deny "docs/agents/scratch/**": allow read: "*": allow ".env*": deny "**/.env*": deny
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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