What it’s for
Scout is the public research agent. When you need to know something that lives outside your org — a company, a market, a product, a public figure, a recent article — Scout is who you talk to. It’s not the right agent for:- Touching your CRM (that’s Marcus or Athena)
- Making decisions or acting on behalf of the company (that’s Athena)
- Talking to customers (Marcus, or the leader’s Digital Twin)
How it works
1
You describe what you want to know
Examples:
- “Research Magazine Luiza — business model + team size”
- “Who are the top 3 competitors of Linx?”
- “Has Stone’s CEO made any public statements about crypto in 2026?”
2
Scout searches the web
The first choice is the Tavily engine (grounded
public-web search). If Tavily returns nothing useful — or if your org
doesn’t have a key configured — Scout automatically falls back to a
built-in web search as a secondary option.
3
Scout assembles the answer
The response comes with cited snippets: every claim is linked to the
URL that was its source. No citation = Scout is not asserting that point
(it appears as an explicit hypothesis).
4
You can ask for a deeper dive
“Go deeper on item 2” or “Read the full article 1” — Scout fires a
read_url against the specific link and comes back with the unpacked
content.Scout’s tools
Every call generates a trace and an entry in the org’s usage history —
auditable via “View trace” in chat or in the Billing panel. The cost of
each tool is charged in Stars according to the
current pricing table in the panel.
Rate limits
To protect your org’s key from accidental exhaustion:- Per-org cap — a searches-per-second ceiling is enforced per organization. When it’s hit, Scout automatically falls back to an alternative engine for a short period, then resumes.
- Cap-fire audit — every time the cap fires, it’s recorded in the org’s event history so you can track it.
Examples of effective prompts
Company research
Competitive analysis
Fact verification
Review mining (pain-points)
When Scout fails (and what to do)
Next steps
Search engine
How to connect your public search engine key.
Marcus — outbound
When Scout finishes the research, Marcus takes over and writes the
commercial outreach.
Athena — operator
For research + action in the same turn, Athena usually orchestrates
better than Scout alone.
Costs
Each Scout call charges Stars from the org’s wallet.