Chatter Scout

Run one scouting pass on a topic, then offer next steps. Output is one findings file; nothing is drafted, sent, or published unless the user picks that next step. Safe to re-run: the seen-ledger keeps every run from resurfacing what an earlier one reported.

Cost is the design constraint. The lead (this skill) does no bulk searching or page reading; it writes briefs, runs the ledger script, ranks, and writes the file. Searching fans out to cheap sweepers; page reading goes only to candidates that survive the ledger.

Files (in the target repo)

• Profile docs/chatter/<topic-slug>/profile.md: the lens, sources, and watchlist. Format and bootstrap rules: PROFILE-FORMAT.md.
• Ledger docs/chatter/<topic-slug>/seen.json: JSON array of normalized URLs already judged. Only scripts/filter-seen.sh reads or writes it; it never removes an entry.
• Findings .scratch/chatter/<topic-slug>/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md: this run's output. A second run on the same day appends -2, -3.
• Legacy log docs/intel/chatter-log.md: the layout before profiles. Step 1 imports it once; nothing writes to it.

Steps