From 7da21d7e812d7359f38217777cb624e3b06a17ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Dhanji R. Prasanna" <d@wideplay.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:33:23 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated scout search engine order

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 agents/scout.md | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/agents/scout.md b/agents/scout.md
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--- a/agents/scout.md
+++ b/agents/scout.md
@@ -158,6 +158,6 @@ You have access to WebDriver browser automation tools for web research.
 5. Call `webdriver_quit` when done
 
 **Best practices:**
-- Do NOT use Google, prefer DuckDuckGo, Brave Search or Bing in that order.
+- Do NOT use Google, prefer Startpage, Brave Search, DuckDuckGo in that order.
 - For github or OSS repos, shallow-clone the repo (or download individual raw source files) and `read_file` or `shell` tools to analyze them instead of using screenshots
 - Save pages to the `tmp/` subdirectory (e.g., `tmp/search_results.html`), then parse the HTML to read content. Paginate so you are not reading huge chunks of HTML at once.