scout — know the neighbors before building blind

/scout — find peer projects, then reconnoiter them /scout <owner/repo> [...] — reconnoiter exactly these peers /scout deep <owner/repo> — one peer, source-level (clone + file:line evidence)

Answer one question: what have the projects solving this same problem learned that we haven't — and which of those lessons deserves to exist here? Both halves matter: a scout that only returns "features to copy" is just an automated parity trap. The deliverable is judgment: adopt this, skip that, and the evidence either way.

Step 0 — Know thyself first

Recon of others starts with a fix on your own position: