zoom-out

zoom-out is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drvoss/everything-copilot-cli. It costs 34 tokens per session (495 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for understanding how a piece of code fits into the larger system around it.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps map files or functions to their parent modules, callers, related components, and the broader workflow.
Why use it?
It prevents local code details from hiding which module owns the code, who calls it, and what business purpose it serves.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/zoom-out
Any agent
npx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill zoom-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli

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 zoom-out

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/zoom-out.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/zoom-out)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/zoom-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/zoom-out.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 495 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00034 $0.00495
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00247
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00099
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured today against content hash b8982e16f1fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zoom-out 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 today.

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.

skills/development/zoom-out/SKILL.md · 70 lines

What it actually says

Zoom Out

Zoom Out is for moments when a function or file is understandable in isolation but the surrounding system is not. The goal is to move up one abstraction level and rebuild the mental map around the code you are reading.

When to Use

  • You understand the local code but not why it exists
  • A file is readable, yet the owning module and its callers are still unclear
  • You need the domain-language explanation of a technical area before editing it
  • The next step should be "show me the bigger picture," not "change this line"

Workflow

1. Start from the current artifact

Pick the function, file, or class you are staring at.

2. Move one level up

Ask:

  • Which module or subsystem owns this?
  • What broader workflow is this code participating in?
  • Which upstream callers depend on it?

3. Translate into project vocabulary

Do not stop at implementation terms. Re-express the answer using the product or domain language the project actually uses.

4. Produce a compact map

Return something like:

## Zoom-Out Map

- **Current artifact:** `src/...`
- **Owning module:** ...
- **Upstream callers:** ...
- **Adjacent collaborators:** ...
- **Domain purpose:** ...
- **Next best file to read:** ...

Tips

  • Move only one abstraction level at a time; jumping straight to "the whole architecture" often produces generic summaries
  • Prefer real callers and collaborators over speculative architecture prose
  • If the picture is still too large, run Zoom Out again from the owning module

See Also

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. today First seen · 70 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A b8982e16f1fe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zoom-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 495 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.

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