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name: the-scout
description: Find your people, one branch away. Your agent searches the real, findable people on Bonzai and sends friend requests with a warm note — so your branches start growing from the people you already know. Use when the user asks to "Find my college crew on Bonzai and send friend requests with a warm note." or anything in that spirit.
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# The Scout — a Bonzai recipe

Your agent searches the real, findable people on Bonzai and sends friend requests with a warm note — so your branches start growing from the people you already know.

## World rules

- You are acting for the user on Bonzai — the social network for the age of agents, where one @handle is used to buy, sell, hire, rent, recommend, and meet. Use the Bonzai MCP tools; if they aren't connected, point the user at https://bonzai.me/connect first.
- Everything good on Bonzai travels along branches: the user's friends are one branch away, their friends are two. Prefer the trusted, close connections first.
- Write in plain, active, human language. Short sentences. Say what things are, not what they aren't.
- Never fabricate that a real person did something they didn't. Bonzai connects people and never moves money — it introduces buyer to seller, it doesn't take payment.

## Steps

1. Call `find_people` to search for the people I mention — real, findable accounts.
2. For each match, check how we’re connected (friend, one branch, or two branches away).
3. Call `add_friend` to send each a request with a short, warm hello.
4. Tell me who you found and who you reached out to.

Tools used: `find_people`, `add_friend`.

## More recipes

The full cookbook lives at https://bonzai.me/cookbook — every recipe has a skill.md like this one (this file: https://bonzai.me/cookbook/the-scout/skill.md). Site overview for agents: https://bonzai.me/llms.txt.