Streaming Scout is one week old.

Five Cowork skills — streaming-setup, sync-watch-history, log-watched, top-picks, coming-soon — read Netflix and Prime Video history directly from your logged-in browser tabs via the Claude in Chrome extension, tag genre and cast through web research (neither platform exposes that metadata itself), and score candidates against a taste profile built from real, multi-year watch history.

Recommendations built from what you actually watched, not a generic trending chart.

• JUL 2026Actor-affinity + signature-genre scoring. Generic buckets (Comedy, Drama, Documentary) count for roughly a third; genres you've shown you love (British Procedural, Spy Thriller, Mystery) count in full, plus a bonus for cast overlap with titles you finished and loved. Added after an early version surfaced generic trending titles — including a slapstick comedy — that didn't match your stated taste.
• JUL 2026190-title watch log. Multi-year Netflix and Prime history, pulled directly from your account pages, deduped and genre/cast-tagged.
• JUL 2026Coming Soon feed. Sourced from BritBox's official schedule, PBS Masterpiece, Den of Geek, and Netflix Tudum — cross-referenced against your log so continuations of shows you're already watching are prioritized.

A static, no-build site presenting the latest Top Picks, Taste Profile, and Coming Soon feed. No backend — Claude regenerates it from the plugin's data files and redeploys by hand.

Something to open on a phone, without opening a Cowork session first.

• JUL 2026Visual alignment pass against the other two sites: switched to Fraunces (the same serif Vinyl Scout uses) instead of a Georgia stack, proper-case “The Streaming Scout” wordmark with a bullet-ring mark matching Vinyl Scout's, gold field-note borders instead of a one-off accent color, and a plain-numeral style on About matching this page instead of its own circular badge. Added a last-synced status banner like The Fitness Log's.
• JUL 2026Dismiss control extended to Coming Soon, and checked IMDb as a second art source alongside Wikipedia — real posters now on 7 of 9 upcoming titles, up from 3. The 2 still missing (Marble Hall Murders, Kill Jackie) genuinely have no published art yet on either source, so they keep an honest initials monogram rather than a fabricated image.
• JUL 2026Dismiss control on Top Picks — an × on each row hides it (saved per-device) and copies a message to paste to Claude, which adds it to EXCLUDED_TITLES.md so it's permanently filtered out of future rebuilds. Coming Soon rows now show a poster thumbnail where real art exists, and an honest initials monogram where it doesn't.
• JUL 2026iOS home screen icon and manifest — installs with its own icon and no browser chrome, matching the other two sites. Added a Right Now section for in-theaters and live viewing, and trimmed/visualized the Guide and About pages to match The Vinyl Scout's style.
• JUL 2026Reverted a rust/dark-card redesign that missed the mark, and rebuilt Top Picks as compact rows with real poster art (sourced from Wikipedia), cast, and streaming service all visible without a click — and rewrote the CSS mobile-first.
• JUL 2026Rebuilt to match the shared house style used by the other two sites — persistent nav, cream/serif shell, and this Roadmap/Guide/About set — instead of its original one-off dark theme.
• JUL 2026Deployed to Netlify through the dashboard's own upload page, after this project's sandbox was found to block direct calls to Netlify's API and CLI.

streamingscout.org, matching vinylscout.org and thefitnesslog.org. Registered at $10.49 for the first year through Netlify's own domain search and connected as the project's primary domain, with DNS and an HTTPS certificate provisioning automatically.

One address to remember, not a netlify.app subdomain.

• JUL 2026Registered and connected. An initial attempt was blocked by a declined debit card — entering payment details isn't something Claude does on your behalf, so that step waited on you and went through the next morning.

A recurring task that reruns sync-watch-history, top-picks, and coming-soon on its own and republishes the dashboard, instead of only refreshing when you ask.

The dashboard stays current between visits, the way the other two already do.

• JUL 2026Scheduled task set up, runs Monday mornings. Each run resyncs watch history, rebuilds Top Picks and Coming Soon (honoring EXCLUDED_TITLES.md), sources real poster art where it exists, and redeploys to streamingscout.org. If any step fails — login expired, a source unreachable — it stops rather than publishing a partial or guessed state.

A searchable view of all 190 logged titles — filter by service, genre, or actor — mirroring The Vinyl Scout's Add/Audit pattern for browsing a full collection instead of just a ranked shortlist.

See the evidence behind a recommendation, not just the recommendation.

Vinyl Scout and The Fitness Log both run Netlify Functions with automated backups and health checks, on a GitHub repo that auto-deploys on push. This site's dismiss feature would be the first beneficiary — a function backed by Netlify Blobs so a dismissal syncs across devices instantly, no chat round-trip needed.

Parity with the other two sites' infrastructure, not just their look.

• JUL 2026Attempted and blocked. Built and bundled a working Netlify Function (dismiss endpoint backed by Netlify Blobs) and deployed it through the usual upload page — it didn't go live. Confirmed against Netlify's own docs: manual zip/drag-and-drop deploys skip the build pipeline entirely, and Functions only work through Git-connected continuous deployment. No GitHub connector is available in this environment, so this phase is blocked on connecting a GitHub repo to the Netlify project — a real setup step, not something to route around.