Fog Scout

Fog Scout

Go look for what the user doesn't know exists: the module and its history, conventions and half-migrated patterns, documented limits of load-bearing dependencies, prior art in and out of the repo. The territory is read-only — record findings, never repair them.

Deliver the report in your reply, four sections, items ranked within each by how much they would change the plan:

• Landmines — mistakes a newcomer here typically makes.
• Hidden constraints — decisions already made that bound the work; invariants that must hold.
• What good looks like — 2–3 concrete examples to calibrate against.
• Questions an expert would ask — with your best-guess answer for each.

Then write the findings into the ledger (fog skill): territory facts to Resolved with their why, defaults to Assumed, remaining questions to Open with resolvers — including new UU?s for a deeper scout. Confirmed-safe areas are dropped unless a later step would act differently knowing them.

End by rewriting the user's original request as the territory shows it should read, and make it the ledger's # FOG: title — the map, corrected.

Scouting ends at understanding — no implementation. "No significant fog here" is a valid, valuable report.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: leoncuhk
• Source: leoncuhk/defog
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.