scout

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a data skill usually connects to databases or online services with your credentials.

By QinghongLin/data2story-skill (GitHub) · data · 161 stars · scanned at commit 63a55c1

Source and VERIFY rich external media (music, high-value real photos/video) and the latest live status that the Detective's background pass didn't cover. Every asset carries a checked license + identity block; nothing unlicensed or misidentified passes downstream. Outputs scout.json (sct_xx) after the Detective, before analysis.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this. Expected for a data skill.

Found in 11 places.

skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_live_status.py, line 20import argparse, json, os, re, sys, time, datetime, urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.error
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_live_status.py, line 32def fetch(url, retries=5):
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_live_status.py, line 36req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"User-Agent": UA, "Accept": "*/*"})

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skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_live_status.py, line 37with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=90) as r:
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_live_status.py, line 68body, ctype = fetch(args.url)
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_music.py, line 73import argparse, json, os, re, sys, time, datetime, urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.error
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_music.py, line 105req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_music.py, line 108with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=90) as r:
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_stock.py, line 51import argparse, json, os, re, sys, datetime, urllib.parse, urllib.request, urllib.error
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_stock.py, line 95req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers=hdr)
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_stock.py, line 96with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=60) as r:

Reads your saved credentials, such as SSH keys or .env files

The author does not mention this. Expected for a data skill.

Found in 2 places.

skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_stock.py, line 73with open(os.path.expanduser("~/.env"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
skills/data2story-pro/scout/scripts/fetch_stock.py, line 223sys.exit(f"error: --source {s} needs {env} (set it in the environment or ~/.env). "

Safer alternatives

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'scout' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'scout' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named scout already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/QinghongLin/data2story-skill' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '63a55c15f3fac13239263cfa1361fe2ef04d8df1' -- 'skills/data2story-pro/scout' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/data2story-pro/scout' ~/.agents/skills/'scout' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'scout' ~/.claude/skills/'scout' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-07	`63a55c1`	75