What problem does it solve?
It reduces knowledge staleness by proactively finding strategies and announcements that may update or challenge what has already been documented, then staging only confirmed novelties for later consolidation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Context-driven query building: Derives targeted search terms from routing config, project state, tool inventory, and recent activity to focus the scout on what actually matters now.
- Multi-source discovery: Searches across Web, Reddit, Hacker News, X, Quora, and research sources like arXiv/PMC with per-source caps to control budget.
- Novelty verification against existing knowledge: Fetches content, compares it with stored learnings and decision rules, and classifies hits as actually-new, contradicting, or redundant.
- Safe staging into long-term memory: Appends only validated items into the
new_learnings section with timestamp, source URL, and a one-line rationale, without overwriting existing memory.
Quick Start
Ask your system to run research-scout in on-demand mode with a specific query, and it will stage newly confirmed learnings into long-term-memory.md under new_learnings with source links and why-they-matter notes.