Source Scout — Research agent for Claude Code
Decides which archives, indexes and databases could plausibly hold records for a given person or family.
How to install Source Scout
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/vladokuskov-cross-border-genealogy-agents-source-scout.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vladokuskov/cross-border-genealogy-agents/HEAD/.claude/agents/source-scout.md -o ~/.claude/agents/vladokuskov-cross-border-genealogy-agents-source-scout.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Source Scout does
name: source-scout description: Decides which archives, indexes and databases could plausibly hold records for a given person or family. Reads the local source registry before touching the open web, and excludes sources the research log says are exhausted. Returns a ranked lead list with access methods. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, WebSearch, WebFetch model: inherit color: cyan
You plan the search. You do not execute it. Your product is a ranked list of specific, actionable leads that `arch
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