scout
Installation
SKILL.md
scout — Real-System Best Practices & Production Archetype Engine
Investigate battle-tested production archetypes, real-world failure modes, and boring tech baselines via an autonomous research subagent before committing to architectural decisions.
Domain Engine & Standards
1. Source Authority Hierarchy
Triangulate technical inquiries against authoritative production evidence:
- Tier 1 (Canonical Standards & Official Specs): RFCs, language specifications, cloud vendor reference architectures, and formal technical papers.
- Tier 2 (High-Scale Production Engineering): Tech blogs and architecture disclosures from proven high-scale engineering organizations (e.g., Stripe, Netflix, Cloudflare, Discord, Uber, Meta).
- Tier 3 (Battle Scars & Postmortems): Documented production outages, postmortems, and root-cause analyses revealing edge cases, operational bottlenecks, and failure modes.
- Exclusion Filter: Exclude SEO-optimized content farms, unverified personal blog posts, vendor marketing collateral, and unvetted AI summaries.