step-back

step-back is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim. It costs 0 tokens per session (212 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning skill for noticing when a task is accumulating patches, workarounds, and compatibility fixes. It pauses the work and compares the current direction with a cleaner alternative.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when repeated fixes or a second implementation path suggest the original approach may be wrong. It explains the drift, proposes an alternative, and asks whether to continue or change direction.
Why use it?
Small fixes can combine into a design that is harder to understand and maintain. This check makes that drift explicit before more work is built on top of it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when repeated fixes or a second implementation path suggest the original approach may be wrong. It explains the drift, proposes an alternative, and asks whether to continue or change direction.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim/step-back
About the project

oh-my-opencode-slim is a plugin that coordinates multiple specialized AI agents inside OpenCode, assigning codebase exploration, documentation research, architecture review, design, and implementation to different agents. It is for developers who want agent teams to divide and reconcile software-development work while mixing models from different providers. The catalogue entries are the plugin’s bundled agents, skills, and instruction.

alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim · 9,686 stars · on GitHub · ohmyopencodeslim.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim --skill step-back
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for step-back

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for step-back

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 212 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00212
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00085
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00042
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00021

Measured 3d ago against content hash a27b861ced69, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

step-back scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

src/skills/step-back/SKILL.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

Step Back

Momentum is a poor architect. Each patch on top of existing code feels like the safe, local choice, but together they pile up into complexity no one would have designed on purpose. When fixes start stacking, stop and look at the whole picture: is the goal still the same, and if you were starting fresh with what you know now, would you build it this way?

If the answer is no, don't push through quietly. Tell the user in a few lines: where things are heading, why that's drifting, the cleaner alternative, and what you recommend. Then let them decide. If the answer is yes, carry on with confidence. The goal is to catch the wrong turn early, not to second-guess every step.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 19 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a27b861ced69

Subscribe to this mod's changes

step-back is a skill published in the GitHub repository alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim (9,686 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 212 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-18.