Scout

An agent asked to "add background jobs" will happily write a tasks table, a polling worker, a retry column, and a dead-letter flag. It works. It is also BullMQ, or Trigger.dev, or Cloud Tasks, or the queue library already sitting in package.json — rebuilt badly, and now owned forever.

Nobody checks. Repo-level review only ever asks "does this already exist in our code?", and model memory answers external questions with confident, stale, sometimes invented package names.

scout is a research partner that goes and finds what the rest of the world already shipped for a capability, verifies it against live sources, and brings back a shortlist you can act on.

Think "is there an AI for that?" — but for product and engineering work, and grounded in evidence instead of vibes.