scout-ask SKILL.md skillA
scout-ask from raven-scout/scout-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add raven-scout/scout-plugin/scout-ask@git:20261102.41a54ffPins git:20261102.41a54ff in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- raven-scout/scout-plugin
- Path
plugin/skills/scout-ask/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261102.41a54ff, committed Nov 2, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 26, 2026
- Size
- 7,674 bytes
- Repository stars
- 20
- License
- MIT
Use when the working directory is a Scout vault (it has `knowledge-base/` and `action-items/`) and the user asks about the state of a project, initiative, person, decision, meeting or open thread ("where are we on X", "what's going on with Y", "who is Z", "what's on my plate"), or what Scout knows about a topic. Do not use for code, PR, CI or branch questions in a code repository (including Scout's own source), when no vault is present, or when the user asks for a live Slack, Linear, GitHub or…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Asking Scout Scout has already done the investigation. Every KB file is a synthesis that a prior session built from live connectors and stamped with the date it was verified. Answering is **retrieval against a canonical file**, not a fresh investigation, and the vault is laid out so one file holds the answer. Work the three steps in order. Most questions are done after step 2. Every path below is relative to the vault root. ## Read through `scripts/scoutctl kb` Every vault read goes through `scripts/scoutctl kb` (`resolve`, `files`, `read`, `search`, `query`, `related`, `traverse`, `path`), never `ls`, `rg`, `grep`, `find`, `cat`, Read, Glob or `parser.py`. Only these label each result, and a scheduled run's KB read gate denies the raw reads. - **Pass no `--reader`.** The default is the session's reader: the owner here, `autonomous` in a scheduled run, an agent when a host sets `SCOUT_READER`. `--reader` only narrows; `--reader owner` fails in a run. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add raven-scout/scout-plugin/scout-ask@sha256:777c92401673e559The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261102.41a54ff, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_66d346b2dbuzqokz)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 26, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261102.41a54ff latest | 2026-11-02 | 41a54ff | 7,674 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261030.7e59792 | 2026-10-30 | 7e59792 | 7,528 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261026.e13f62f | 2026-10-26 | e13f62f | 6,017 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7674 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
raven-scout/scout-plugin · 20 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_66d346b2dbuzqokz GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=raven-scout/scout-plugin/scout-ask GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/777c92401673e559f2e8fe0ec0c0d0cf98933eaccf856db392423fe0ee9580ad
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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