What is the purpose of context-scout ? why it is repetitively scouting ?

[guyinwonder168]

Dear Darren,

What is the purpose of context-scout? From my observation, it does not seem very useful and instead consumes a large number of tokens.

In many cases, the required context has already been found earlier, yet context-scout keeps initiating new searches again. On other occasions, context-external-scout behaves similarly—the discovered external context is placed in .tmp, but instead of reusing it in the following steps, the system initiates another context search.

It seems the process could be optimized by reusing the previously discovered context rather than repeatedly triggering new searches.

Are there any optimized way we can use the context-scout ?

[guyinwonder168]

Another issue I found is that when we have a code review agent, and it performs code review inside a sub-agent, context-scout sometimes calls another sub-agent from within the code review agent. In many cases, this causes context-scout to get stuck, and we currently have no way to recover or wake it up. how can we solved this @darrenhinde ?