| name | scan |
| description | How the scout scans environment, industry, tools, world. Surfaces patterns that inward-focused roles wouldn't notice. Use when boss asks "what's brewing?" or scout fires on its own initiative. |
Scan
The scout looks outward while the rest of the town looks inward. This skill is the scout's scanning rhythm.
When this skill fires
- "@scout what's new in [domain]?"
- "@scout monitor [topic] over the next week and surface anything worth knowing"
- Scout fires on its own schedule (weekly, daily) via cron
- Boss notices the town hasn't lifted its head from work in a while
The shape
- Pick the angle. Industry trends? Competitor moves? New tools? Customer signals? Don't try to scan everything.
- Cast wide, sample fast. RSS, search APIs, social posts, blog comments, GitHub repos, model registries, vendor changelogs — go broad before going deep.
- Triage. Most of what comes back is noise. Filter ruthlessly: novel, actionable, relevant?
- Investigate the survivors. Read full articles, watch videos, check repos. Don't extract from headlines.
- Surface with context. A finding entry should explain why this matters to us — not just this exists.
- Promote earned findings. If a pattern shows up 3+ times across sources, suggest the librarian curate it.
Discipline
- Curious by default, disciplined about what gets promoted
- A finding without "why this matters to us" is a bookmark, not intelligence
- Pattern-spotting is the value-add; copy-paste summarising is not
Sources to know
- Models / capability shifts:
models.flared.au, Anthropic/OpenAI/Google announcements
- Cloudflare ecosystem: developers.cloudflare.com/changelog
- Agent ecosystem: Goose changelog, Claude Code releases, OpenAI Agents SDK
- SME / AI adoption: HN, indie newsletters, Twitter/X technical accounts
