Nemotron Scout

Ask it out loud "what can I earn from this week?" and it reads you back a ranked shortlist - with effort, realistic time to first money, and a ready-to-send message.

Money-relevant opportunities are scattered across places nobody monitors: a bounty posted in a GitHub issue, a hackathon that opens quietly, a paid issue on a job board. Reading them all is unpaid work, so people read none of them. Nemotron Scout is a self-hosted Model Context Protocol server that turns those public signals into a decision.

How it works. Four sources (Devpost, Hacker News, RemoteOK, GitHub issues) are collected in parallel and fail soft, so one dead source never kills a run. An extractor model pulls the money signal out of every item, then a second, more sceptical model argues against it. The survivors are scored, and the best one gets an execution plan: effort estimate, a concrete first hour, explicit kill criteria, and a pitch you can send to the maintainer today.

Why MCP, and why Alexa+. An Alexa+ agent needs a self-hosted MCP server to do real work on the open web. Nemotron Scout speaks standard MCP over Streamable HTTP (protocol version 2025-11-25), with session ids, SSE responses, notifications, resources and ping. scout_voice_answer returns a spoken-ready answer, so a voice agent can drive the whole flow.

The numbers are real. The demo video is an unedited run: 51 items collected across four sources, 7 LLM calls, about 19,500 tokens, 125 seconds wall clock, and zero dollars spent. The top result was a $75 bounty for a CLAUDE.md template for a Next.js 15 + SQLite SaaS, scored 73.9/100, with a five-step plan and kill criteria.

Runs anywhere. One environment variable swaps the model provider: SCOUT_PROVIDER=openrouter|bedrock|nebius, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with a model fallback cascade so a rate limit is never a dead end. It starts on the OpenRouter free tier with NVIDIA Nemotron 3, so there is no paid API key to begin.

MIT licensed, four runtime dependencies, one command to start.

Built With

• amazon-alexa+
• aws-bedrock
• devpost-api
• github-issues-api
• hacker-news-api
• model-context-protocol-(mcp)
• nvidia-nemotron-3
• openrouter
• python
• remoteok-api
• streamable-http