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Sample prompts & full sessions

Six starter prompts you can paste into any Scout-equipped agent, plus six worked sessions — each showing the endpoints Scout calls, the actions it runs, and the structured response it produces.

Try these in your agent

Vet a new idea
"I want to build a privacy-preserving stablecoin on Stellar. Vet this idea."
Find existing projects
"What Stellar projects have built stablecoin off-ramps? Show me the SCF-funded ones first."
Spot Stellar builders
"Find Stellar builders who've shipped Soroban contracts (small directory — flag any gaps)."
Surface SCF history
"What SCF-funded projects work on payments? How much have they raised total?"
Recent hackathon winners
"Show me the most recent Stellar Hacks events and what prize tracks they had."
Map an idea to a track
"I have a soroban DeFi protocol idea. What past Stellar hackathon tracks paid out for similar work?"

Worked sessions

Example 1 Conversational

Conversational — check what's been built

User
"Who built stablecoin off-ramps at Stellar hackathons? Show me the SCF-funded ones first."
Scout's actions
  1. 1GET /api/projects/search?q=stablecoin+offramp&scfAwarded=1&limit=10
  2. 2Sort by .scfTotalAwardedUSD desc; cite project URLs.
  3. 3If user wants more, broaden: GET /api/projects/search?q=stablecoin+offramp (no SCF filter).
Scout's response (sample)

Found 4 SCF-funded off-ramp builders. Top by funding:

Kulipa
Payments · stellarlight.xyz/project/kulipa
$150,000 SCF
StellarPay
Payments · stellarlight.xyz/project/stellarpay
$148,400 SCF
Wirex Pay
User-Facing App · stellarlight.xyz/project/wirex-pay
$150,000 SCF
PayZoll
Payments · stellarlight.xyz/project/payzoll
$100,000 SCF

Combined: $548k SCF-funded across 4 teams. None target a specific geographic corridor yet — that's the differentiator if you're building one.

Example 2 Deep Dive

Deep Dive — vet a new idea

User
"I want to build a privacy-preserving stablecoin on Stellar — Zcash-style shielded pool but for USDC. Vet this idea."
Scout's actions
  1. 1Restate + reframe: "You're proposing a shielded stablecoin with hidden balances. Before searching: the regulatory layer (Tornado Cash sanctioning) makes pure privacy a dead-end on Stellar. The real wedge is *selective disclosure* — privacy by default, compliance-readable by warrant. I'll vet that angle."
  2. 2GET /api/projects/search?q=privacy+stablecoin+confidential → 1 adjacent match (XLM shielded prototype, abandoned).
  3. 3Crowdedness 2/10. Partial gap — 1 abandoned adjacent project, 0 SCF-funded, 0 hackathon winners in this exact lane.
  4. 4GET /api/skills/zk-proofs → quote the SDF skill's ZK primitives section inline. Recommend installing https://skills.stellar.org/skills/zk-proofs/SKILL.md + soroban.
  5. 5GET /api/builders?q=zk → surface candidates with the small-and-growing caveat.
  6. 6GET /api/projects/search?q=privacy+zk&scfAwarded=1 → report 0 SCF-funded privacy/ZK projects on Stellar today — funding signal is open.
  7. 7GET /api/rfps?q=privacy → no open RFP matches; suggest the user submits one at stellarlight.xyz/ideas.
Scout's response (sample)

Reframe accepted? Selective-disclosure stablecoin, Stellar-native.

Crowdedness
1 abandoned adjacent project · 0 SCF-funded · 0 hackathon winners
2/10
Gap classification
The privacy-only lane is a regulatory dead-end; the selective-disclosure lane is wide open.
Partial → Full (with selective-disclosure framing)
Direct competitors
XLM Shielded (abandoned 2024). Adjacent: 2 ZK-curious projects in directory.
None active
SDK recommendation
Install both from skills.stellar.org
zk-proofs + soroban
Funding signal
0 SCF-funded ZK/privacy projects on Stellar — significant whitespace.
Open
Next step
No open RFP matches; you could submit one via stellarlight.xyz/ideas.
Build for SCF Round Q2 2026

Honest read: technically demanding (you'd need a new SEP or Soroban precompile for verifiable shielded balances), but funding + competitive whitespace is real. Don't ship pure-privacy; lead with the compliance angle from day one.

Example 3 Conversational

Map an idea → the right SDF skill

User
"I want to write a Soroban smart contract. What do I need to know first?"
Scout's actions
  1. 1GET /api/skills/soroban → load full SDF Soroban skill (~8k words).
  2. 2Quote relevant sections inline (setup, storage types, authorization, security pitfalls).
  3. 3Recommend installing https://skills.stellar.org/skills/soroban/SKILL.md for ongoing work.
  4. 4Cross-reference: assets (for SAC bridge), data (for RPC queries), standards (for SEP work).
Scout's response (sample)

Loading the official "soroban" skill (8,008 words, SDF-maintained). Five concerns to know upfront:

1. Project setup
Pinned versions in the skill
soroban-cli + Rust toolchain
2. Storage types
TTL semantics + archival behavior
Persistent / Temporary / Instance
3. Authorization
Common pitfalls covered in the skill
require_auth() patterns
4. Testing
Mutation + fork + differential tests too
Unit / integration / fuzz / property
5. Vulnerabilities
Full checklist in the skill
Storage hygiene, TTL, reentrancy-adjacent bugs

Install the full skill at .claude/skills/stellar-soroban/SKILL.md from https://skills.stellar.org/skills/soroban/SKILL.md. For SAC bridge specifically, also grab the assets skill.

Example 4 Conversational

Hackathon track research

User
"What prize tracks paid out the most at past Stellar Hacks events?"
Scout's actions
  1. 1GET /api/hackathons?status=completed → list past events with prize pools.
  2. 2For each curated event, GET /api/hackathons/{slug} → read .hackathon.tracks[*].
  3. 3Aggregate tracks across events; rank by totalPrizeUSD desc.
  4. 4Note caveats: DoraHacks-sourced events have prize pool but no track-level data unless curated into Payload.
Scout's response (sample)

Past Stellar Hacks events with documented track payouts (curated entries only — DoraHacks events show pool only):

Stellar Hacks: Agents
DoraHacks · track-level data not curated yet
$10,000 pool
Stellar Hacks: KALE × Reflector
DoraHacks · track-level data not curated yet
$12,000 pool
Stellar Hacks: ZK Gaming
DoraHacks · track-level data not curated yet
$10,000 pool
Scaffold Stellar Hackathon
DoraHacks · track-level data not curated yet
$10,000 pool

Curators haven't tagged track-level data on most DoraHacks-sourced events yet, so I can't rank track payouts. For Stellar Hacks: Agents specifically, the event externalUrl has track results — recommend checking that. I'll be more useful here once tracks are curated into the Hackathons collection.

Example 5 Deep Dive

Funding-first project search

User
"What SCF-funded projects work on payments? Which raised the most?"
Scout's actions
  1. 1GET /api/projects/search?q=payments&scfAwarded=1&limit=20 → SCF-awarded payments projects.
  2. 2Sort by .scfTotalAwardedUSD desc. Sum total raised.
  3. 3Optionally cross-reference: filter where .hackathon is set, to see which won hackathon prizes en route to SCF funding.
Scout's response (sample)

10 SCF-funded payments projects on Stellar. Combined: $859,692.

Kulipa
User-Facing App · payments rails for African corridors
$150,000
Rozo
Payments · QR-based payment dApp
$150,000
StellarPay
Payments · multi-country payments processor
$148,400
PayZoll
Payments · payroll-to-stablecoin pipeline
$100,000
TheXBank
User-Facing App · banking interface
$89,500
SFx
Protocol/Contract · FX corridor
$55,000

Funding skews toward end-user / B2B payment products, not pure infra. If your idea is in this space, you're competing for SCF dollars against established teams — pick a regional corridor or a B2B vertical they don't cover. None target programmatic agentic payments yet (x402, MPP) — that's a real whitespace.

Example 6 Conversational

Match an idea to an open RFP

User
"Is there an open Stellar RFP that matches my idea — a real-time price API for Soroban tokens?"
Scout's actions
  1. 1GET /api/rfps?q=price+api+soroban → filter curated RFPs by keyword overlap.
  2. 2Return matches with title, description, technical requirements, quarter, URL.
  3. 3If 0 matches: tell user honestly and recommend submitting via stellarlight.xyz/ideas.
Scout's response (sample)

Direct match found:

Prices API & Indexing Service
Infrastructure · stellarlight.xyz/ideas/prices-api
Q1 2026
Author
RFP description matches your idea closely
Jake
Tech requirements
Asset coverage (Classic + SEP-41), VWAP weighting, real-time + historical endpoints, low-latency. Full spec on the RFP page.
VWAP · SEP-41
Funding
Apply via the Stellar Community Fund
SCF-funded

Your idea aligns with an existing open RFP — no need to reinvent. The brief is specific (VWAP weighting, SEP-41 support, configurable liquidity thresholds) — read the full RFP before applying. Adjacent RFP that overlaps: "DeFi Positions API" (Q1 2026) — same author, complementary scope.

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