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title: "Scout - Air Market"
description: "Before starting serious work you need to know what the question actually is, what has already been done, and what you will measure against. This handles that groundwork: framing the problem, scouting…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/scout"
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[Air Market](/) / [Research](/category/research) / Scout

Skill by [ResearAI](/@researai)

# Scout

Get your bearings before you commit to the hard work

## What this does

Before starting serious work you need to know what the question actually is, what has already been done, and what you will measure against. This handles that groundwork: framing the problem, scouting the literature, sorting out datasets and metrics, and finding baselines. Reach for it at the very start.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Help me frame the problem properly
- Find the existing literature on this
- Work out which dataset and metric to use

## Information

**Scout at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [ResearAI](/@researai) |
| Category | [Research](/category/research) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 19 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [ResearAI/DeepScientist](https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist/tree/bd0b92b226b2845c5d21f09e97c48c702dc12a81/src/skills/scout) |
| GitHub stars | 3,293 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Scout and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Scout's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | bd0b92b226b2845c5d21f09e97c48c702dc12a81 |
| Content hash | cafe221b4aa7aa7f72148ffdd68dfad4808cbdc71d2f32697e5fc1e1229f6905 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist/blob/bd0b92b226b2845c5d21f09e97c48c702dc12a81/src/skills/scout/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Scout](/security/scout)

## About Scout

This is for the stage before deeper work begins on a quest: framing the problem, scouting the literature, clarifying the dataset or the metric, and discovering baselines.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- references/baseline-shortlist-template.md - reference
- references/eval-contract-template.md - reference
- references/literature-scout-template.md - reference
- references/operational-guidance.md - reference
- references/paper-triage-playbook.md - reference

## Questions

### Is Scout safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Scout and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit bd0b92b226b2, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/scout.

### How do I install Scout?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/scout on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/ResearAI/DeepScientist/tree/bd0b92b226b2845c5d21f09e97c48c702dc12a81/src/skills/scout. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Research listings](/category/research)
- [Everything by ResearAI](/@researai)

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