# 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

## 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, aircraft, or satellites 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