Scout Android

Scout's third surface — the Android companion to the Scout engine (scheduled brain) and Scout.app (macOS daily driver).

What it does (v1):

• Action Items — today's vault list on your phone, sectioned 💡🔴🟡🟢✅, with mark-done and snooze write-back through scoutctl (the markdown stays canonical; this app is another wrapper around it, same as Scout.app).
• Notification capture — NotificationListenerService persists every system notification to a local Room DB, then forwards batches to the Mac-side bridge, which appends them to ~/Scout/.scout-inbox/phone-notifications-YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl for scheduled Scout sessions to consume. This is the phone-as-connector path that replaces the Google-Messages WebView bridge.
• FCM push (dormant) — code-complete receiver + deep links; lights up when you add a Firebase config (below). Until then the Settings screen shows "Not configured".

Deferred to v2 (per the vault spec): SMS/Telephony.Sms ingestion, Health Connect, QR-pairing, the ConnectorModule framework. RCS messages already arrive via notification capture of com.google.android.apps.messaging.

Quickstart

1. Start the bridge on the Mac

bridge/run-bridge.sh          # listens on :8787, prints the pairing secret

The secret auto-generates to ~/.scout-secrets/scout-bridge.secret (0600). The bridge wraps scoutctl — make sure it's on PATH (~/.local/bin/scoutctl).

2. Build + install the app

export JAVA_HOME=~/.jdks/temurin-21/Contents/Home
./gradlew :app:assembleDebug
adb install app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk    # USB debugging on

3. Pair

QR (recommended): the bridge prints a QR code on startup (brew install qrencode for the nice rendering; otherwise it prints the pairing link as text). In the app: Settings → Scan QR to pair — URL + secret fill themselves and the connection is tested automatically. Scanning with the stock camera app also works: the scout://pair link opens Scout and pairs.

Manual fallback: Settings → Bridge URL http://<mac-lan-ip>:8787 + the printed secret → Test connection. Either way, grant Notification Access afterwards and pick which apps Scout may monitor (Settings → "Choose apps to monitor" — capture is opt-in, nothing is captured until you select apps).

Transport is plain HTTP on the LAN, authenticated by the bearer secret. For off-LAN access, put both devices on a Tailscale tailnet and use the Mac's tailnet IP — no code changes needed.

Firebase (10 minutes, optional — enables push)

1. console.firebase.google.com → create project → add Android app with package com.jordanrburger.scout.
2. Download google-services.json into app/ (gitignored) and rebuild. The build applies the google-services plugin only when that file exists, and the app subscribes to topic scout-default on next launch.
3. Engine-side sender (follow-up work in ~/scout-plugin): POST to the FCM HTTP v1 API with a service account, data payload {"title","body","prefix"?,"urgency":"high"|"normal"}.

Control Center (v0.3.0)

The Control Center tab is a remote mirror of the macOS Scout.app Control Center, served by the bridge's GET /status (parsed from .scout-logs/ + schedule.yaml + connector-health.md):

• Now — is Scout running, and which session type; next scheduled run; today's token spend; connector health (ok / dark / unknown dots); a recent-runs list with outcome chips.
• Run a session now — pick consolidation / briefing / research / dreaming → a confirm dialog (it spawns a real run on the Mac and spends tokens) → the bridge launches the matching run-*.sh detached. Budget is pre-checked; if over budget you get a "Run anyway" prompt. One run at a time (guarded by the runner's existing lock).
• Retry — a failed run's detail view has a Retry button (re-runs with SCOUT_RETRY_OF).

The Control Center polls /status every ~15s while open (5s briefly after you launch a run).

Development

./gradlew test                              # JVM unit tests (no emulator needed)
(cd bridge && python3 -m unittest discover tests)   # bridge tests
bridge/tests/e2e-smoke.sh                   # end-to-end against a fixture-copy vault

Design specs + implementation plans are maintained privately (they reference the author's personal Scout vault); this public repo carries the app + bridge code, its tests, and synthetic test fixtures.

License & legal

This app is open-source under the MIT License.

Scout is local-first and collects no data of its own. Captured notifications are stored in a local database on your phone and forwarded only to your own paired Mac over your local network — never to us or any third-party server. The app does not read SMS or health data, and push notifications (FCM) are dormant unless you add your own Firebase config. See the project's shared legal documents:

• Privacy Policy — https://raven-scout.github.io/scout-plugin/privacy.html
• Terms of Use — https://raven-scout.github.io/scout-plugin/terms.html
• Security Policy · Code of Conduct

Scout is an independent project, not affiliated with Anthropic, Microsoft, Keboola, Google, or any other company.