Scout releases AI coding Agent desktop app
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Scout releases an AI coding Agent desktop app, with 4 free models built in and aggregating free quotas from ScoutCode, Kilo Code, OpenCode, and OVH Cloud; when a model hits a rate limit, the app automatically switches to the next one. Free models are not charged per request and require no card binding or trial, but are rate-limited: 10 requests per minute and 200 per day when not logged in, and 15 per minute and 400 per day for free accounts. Logging in via browser grants $5 in credit per week, with at most $1 usable in any 5-hour window, after which deductions come from funds and balances already accumulated in the account. Mac is not yet supported.
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Scout is a Windows and Linux coding agent that pools the free tiers of five providers plus Kilo Code, OpenCode and OVH Cloud, falling back to the next model when one is rate limited, with free models limited to 10/min and 200/day without an account. It offers five permission modes, context pruning at 60k and compaction at 90k, self-maintaining memory in committable .scout/memory.md and ~/.scoutcode/memory.md files, and a Rust desktop app with a React WebView2 window shipping as an 18 MB executable. It also includes an issue tracker, remote control from a browser or phone, and an MCP bridge letting claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok use local file and shell tools.
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