everscout

Answer a question about a subject the user has an everscout beat for, like a reporter on that beat: recall what the beat already holds (notes, earlier answers, reports, study, signals), judge whether it is enough and fresh, fill gaps from the beat's communities, feeds and the web, then answer with dated, linked evidence split into already seen and just found, disagreements, confidence and unknowns. Saves each answer so the next question builds on it. Use whenever the user asks about a beat's subject or talks to the scout as a source: 'ask my tech-hiring scout...', 'what does the scout know about X', 'what are people saying about Y', 'is Z true on my beat', 'what's the latest on', 'brief me on', 'what would you tell someone about', 'why is X happening', 'follow-up' or 'dig into that'. Also for 'refresh everscout-ask' and 'is everscout-ask stale'. Setup is everscout-beat, scans everscout-scan, reports everscout-report, asking makers everscout-engage.

Create, research, tune or retire an everscout beat, the subject pack the scout follows: scope and research questions, a verified watch list (subreddits, forums, feeds, Hacker News, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, YouTube, GitHub) with each community's stance on questions and AI, an entity vocabulary, a question bank for makers, web searches, the study outline and the metrics to track over time. Use whenever the user wants to follow a new subject ('scout AI video for me', 'set up a scout for global economics', 'I want to follow down-tempo music', 'new beat', 'track this topic', 'make a scout for X'), add, verify or drop a source ('add r/X to the scout', 'is this subreddit still alive', 'check the sources'), grow the vocabulary or question bank, add, promote or archive a metric ('track a number for this'), list beats, or asks what everscout can watch. Also for 'refresh everscout-beat' and 'is everscout-beat stale'. Reading sources is everscout-scan; asking makers is everscout-engage; reports are everscout-report.

Draft a respectful comment for the user to post by hand in a community their everscout beat watches: find a fresh post where a maker shows their work and nobody has asked about the process, write a true observation and one to three specific questions from the beat's question bank in the user's voice, check the pace rules (an hour apart, four a day, one per community a day, never the same person twice) and the community's AI rules, show the text for approval, hand it over to paste and record it in the ledger. Also drafts short thank-yous to makers who answered and replies from what the user actually knows. Use whenever the user says 'find a post to ask', 'ask a maker', 'engage', 'draft a comment', 'what should I ask this person', 'anyone to ask this hour', 'thank them for the answer', 'help me reply to this thread', or hands over a post and asks what to say. Also for 'refresh everscout-engage' and 'is everscout-engage stale'. Reading feeds is everscout-scan; defining the subject is everscout-beat.

Write what an everscout beat has learned: the dated radar-style trend report (direction, entities new, rising, steady or fading with tally counts, Adopt, Trial, Assess, Hold rings with rationale, notable threads, maker answers, reception, open questions), a weekly digest, the beat's metric review and charts, or the baseline study, a multi-chapter history and guide to the subject written STORM style from an approved outline. Every claim cites a note and every link is checked. Use whenever the user says 'report', 'write the trend report', 'what's hot', 'which tools are rising', 'what changed this month', 'chart the metrics', 'weekly digest', 'summarize what the scout found', 'build the baseline', 'write the study', 'refresh the study', or wants the direction, history of or a guide to a subject they have a beat for. Also for 'refresh everscout-report' and 'is everscout-report stale'. Fetching and distilling is everscout-scan; setting up the subject is everscout-beat.

Run the everscout scan for a beat: fetch every watch-list source at its platform's polite pace (Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, Discourse, newsletters, YouTube, GitHub, arXiv, Hugging Face, news searches), triage new items against the beat's scope and feedback, distil each thread worth keeping into one paraphrased note with entities tallied, collect replies from makers the user asked, run the beat's web searches and retally the signals (new, rising, fading). Use whenever the user says 'scan', 'run the scout', 'check the feeds', 'catch me up on a subject', 'anything new this week', 'any replies to my questions', 'ingest this thread', 'add this post to the notes', 'update the signals', or asks what people are doing in a beat's subject and the last scan is over a day old. Also for 'refresh everscout-scan' and 'is everscout-scan stale'. Setup is everscout-beat; asking makers is everscout-engage; reports are everscout-report.