# Scoutpost

> AI-powered monitoring infrastructure for investigative and local journalism. Scoutpost runs scheduled scouts across public pages, news coverage, social profiles, civic records, and transport activity; it extracts source-linked information units, deduplicates repeated coverage, and gives journalists and AI assistants a searchable knowledge base with a human verification boundary.

Scoutpost is built for investigative workflows, local reporting, and continuous newsroom monitoring. The public product contract is:

- scouts monitor sources on schedules
- runs create information units
- units can be verified or rejected by humans
- agents can connect through MCP, REST, or CLI
- the hosted product lives at `scoutpost.ai`, with self-hosting also supported

## When to use it

Use Scoutpost when a source needs repeat checking: a public page, social profile, council record, reporting beat, or fleet of vessels or aircraft. Tell your agent what to watch, which changes matter, and when to run the scout. You can also create and review scouts in the web app.

**Input:** a source or beat, monitoring criteria, and a schedule or request to run now. **Output:** source-linked information units, run history, and alerts that you can search and verify. Repeated coverage is deduplicated; verification and publication remain editorial decisions.

Scoutpost keeps watching over time. Spotlight develops a bounded investigation from a lead; Navigator helps choose tools and methods. Connecting through MCP, REST, or CLI does not grant permission to create, change, run, or delete scouts without the user's instruction.

## Start here

- [Skills index](https://www.scoutpost.ai/skills): Primary AI entrypoint for the public skill files
- [Full flattened docs](https://www.scoutpost.ai/llms-full.txt): Primary one-shot ingestion file for docs and skills together
- [Overview](https://www.scoutpost.ai/overview.txt): Short product overview and key benefits
- [Docs home](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs): Public documentation for humans
- [Docs in text form](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs.txt): Short machine-readable public docs

## Public product pages

- [Login and app entry](https://www.scoutpost.ai/login): Sign-in and public product framing
- [Pricing](https://www.scoutpost.ai/pricing): Hosted plans and credits
- [Pricing in text form](https://www.scoutpost.ai/pricing.txt): Short hosted pricing summary
- [FAQ](https://www.scoutpost.ai/faq): Licensing, self-hosting, and product basics
- [FAQ in text form](https://www.scoutpost.ai/faq.txt): Short machine-readable FAQ

## Product model

- [Page Scout](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#scout-page): Monitor a single URL for meaningful changes
- [Beat Scout](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#scout-beat): Monitor a beat by topic or geography
- [Social Scout](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#scout-social): Monitor social profiles and post deletions
- [Civic Scout](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#scout-civic): Monitor council materials and PDF-heavy civic sources
- [Fleet Scout](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#scout-fleet): Alert when watched vessels or aircraft enter a defined area
- [Information units](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#units): Atomic facts, search, verification, and audit trail
- [Verification](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#verification): Human editorial approval before publishable use
- [Page Archive](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#page-archive): Evidence snapshots for Page Scouts — list/download via `scout snapshots` CLI, `list_snapshots`/`get_snapshot_url` MCP, `GET /snapshots`; toggle via `archive_enabled` on scout create/update
- [Credits](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#credits): Hosted cost model and planning

## Integrations

- [MCP server](https://www.scoutpost.ai/mcp): Remote MCP endpoint for agent clients
- [REST docs](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#rest): Public REST integration guidance
- [Snapshots retrieval](https://www.scoutpost.ai/docs#page-archive): Page Archive evidence snapshots are part of the CLI/MCP/REST surface (`scout snapshots`, `list_snapshots`/`get_snapshot_url`, `GET /snapshots` + `POST /snapshots/:id/url`)
- [OpenAPI spec](https://www.scoutpost.ai/functions/v1/openapi-spec): Machine-readable REST schema
- [Swagger UI](https://www.scoutpost.ai/swagger): Interactive API reference
- [CLI README](https://github.com/buriedsignals/scoutpost-os/blob/main/cli/README.md): `scout` install and usage
- [MCP bridge README](https://github.com/buriedsignals/scoutpost-os/blob/main/mcp/README.md): Stdio bridge for MCP clients

## Source and support

- [GitHub repo](https://github.com/buriedsignals/scoutpost-os): Public source
- [GitHub releases](https://github.com/buriedsignals/scoutpost-os/releases): Release notes and binaries
- [GitHub issues](https://github.com/buriedsignals/scoutpost-os/issues): Bugs and feature requests