Python code scout: metrics + locally-generated summaries.
It’s useful for AI-agent priming because it extracts code into a dense signal - enough context for an agent to start acting like it “read the code.”
The summaries are actually quite lit; runs locally on your CPU (the model is <200MB) and is good at explaining what the code does, not just what it’s called.
- Scout on itself compresses 5,123 source tokens into 1,628.
- In another larger project: 22,962 into just 6,372! The agent could describe the whole thing technically, predict bugs, and suggest refactors with no additional context from source.