Scouts
Scouts are research agents that run on their own while you build. You queue one once, it does the research on a schedule, writes the report, and CodeSpring turns what it finds into part of your plan.
What Scouts are
A Scout is a research task you set up once and then leave running. The common example is competitor research: a Scout that runs every week, scans what your competitors launch, and writes it up as a report. You choose the schedule, weekly, monthly, whenever suits, and the Scout runs autonomously in the background while you keep building.
From research to plan
The report is not the end of it. Scout findings feed straight into your map: when a Scout spots something worth building, CodeSpring maps it as a feature in your plan, so it sits on the canvas next to everything else and goes through the same flow as any feature you added by hand, notes, PRDs, then tasks.
That is the point of Scouts: you build what your competitors' customers are missing before they win yours, without doing the research yourself. From there the normal loop takes over, starting with the mind map and ending on the kanban board.