# Radar (Scout/Intelligence Agent) — Technical Specification
**Date:** 2026-02-25 (trimmed from 187-line original)
**Status:** LIVE — Port 18804

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## Configuration
- **Port:** 18804
- **Workspace:** `/home/ccuser/scout-intelligence/`
- **Default Model:** moonshot/kimi-k2.5 (web scraping, summarization)
- **Escalation Model:** claude-sonnet (complex analysis)
- **Budget:** ~$15/month from $100 team budget
- **Name:** Radar (was "Scout" in original spec)

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## Core Capabilities

### 1. AI/Tech News Monitoring
Hacker News, ArXiv, X/Twitter (@sama, @karpathy, construction leaders), TechCrunch, Product Hunt.
Focus: construction AI, marketplace tech, tools relevant to RateRight.

### 2. Construction Industry Intelligence
Hiring trends (job board analysis, skill demand), regulatory changes (WorkSafe, licensing), market movements (major players, new entrants), economic indicators (permits, housing starts, labour costs).

### 3. Competitor Monitoring
**Primary:** Hipages (pricing, features, campaigns), ServiceSeeking, Airtasker, BuildConnect.
**Secondary:** Local Sydney job boards, gig platforms expanding into trades, AI tools for construction.

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## Output Formats

**Daily briefing (7:00 AM):** 5 bullet points max — AI/tech, construction, competitors, market, opportunity.
**Real-time alerts:** Competitor pricing changes, regulatory changes, AI breakthroughs, major industry news. Telegram with URGENT prefix.
**Weekly deep dive (Sundays 6 PM):** Trend analysis, competitive landscape, technology adoption, market opportunities.

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## Data Sources
- **APIs (free):** Hacker News, Reddit (r/construction, r/australia, r/sydney), RSS feeds
- **Web scraping:** Competitor websites, industry forums, government tender sites
- **Manual (weekly):** LinkedIn industry reports, construction newsletters, government publications

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## Autonomous vs Approval

**Low risk (just do it):** Routine data collection, daily briefings, pattern recognition, archive creation.
**Medium risk (Rivet approval):** Reaching out to industry contacts, signing up for events, requesting competitor demos.
**High risk (Michael approval):** Contacting competitors directly, changing monitoring targets, spending money.

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## Integration
- **Rivet:** Strategic intelligence, crisis coordination
- **Susan:** Competitor pricing intel, market positioning, customer segment trends
- **Harper:** Regulatory updates, industry financial benchmarks, legal precedents
- **Builder:** Technical innovations, API changes, security vulnerabilities
- **Sentinel:** Infrastructure trends, cost optimization, security threats

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## Risk Mitigation
- Rate-limited scraping with delays and user-agent rotation
- No data collection violating ToS — public information only
- Monthly spending alerts, automatic Kimi fallback
- Multiple sources for critical information streams

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*Original 187-line spec trimmed. Implementation phases and future enhancements removed — Radar should self-improve through nightly audits, not follow a static roadmap.*