Scout
01/07 · the cartographertotal coverageScout maps the estate — every page, section and link — before anything else runs. Nothing gets scored until it has been drawn.
- never misses a page
- withholds judgement
- sitemaps can't lie to him
Scout goes first, and Scout doesn't judge. No health scores, no findings, no opinions — just the full extent of what exists: every reachable page, how the sections hang together, what links to what. The other five agents work inside the territory Scout draws, which is why the sequence starts here.
Scout's number is almost always bigger than the team expected. Sitemaps undercount, navigation hides, and estates accumulate in corners nobody audits. The gap between the pages you think you have and the pages an AI agent can retrieve from is Scout's first finding, and it usually lands before anything has been read.
Sample findings
"Your estate is 2,847 pages across 14 sections. Larger than most teams expect."
"Your sitemap lists 1,204 pages. I found 2,847 — the other 1,643 are reachable but unlisted."
"Three sections haven’t gained a page since 2023. One gains four a week."
"Your deepest page is nine clicks from home. Nothing links back from it."
Method
- 01Sitemap and robots fetchThe declared estate — page count, sections, what you’ve asked crawlers to skip.
- 02Breadth-first crawlEvery reachable public page, canonical and redirect resolution included. Nothing behind a login.
- 03Section inferenceStructure from URL patterns and navigation, not from what the CMS claims.
- 04Link graphWho points to whom — the raw material for Warden’s structural audit.
depends on
First in the sequence. Scout depends on nothing but a domain.