zoom-out

zoom-out is a skill for Claude Code from helderberto/agent-skills. It costs 52 tokens per session (170 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An explanation guide that uses everyday analogies, ASCII diagrams, and step-by-step code reading. It is intended to make unfamiliar code and its dependencies easier to understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for code walkthroughs, architecture explanations, and questions about how a codebase or one of its parts works.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to explain how code works instead of jumping straight into implementation details. It also calls out a common mistake or misconception.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the hb plugin — 37 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for code walkthroughs, architecture explanations, and questions about how a codebase or one of its parts works.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/helderberto/agent-skills/zoom-out
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 helderberto/agent-skills --skill zoom-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/helderberto/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hb, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 4 agents.

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/helderberto/agent-skills/zoom-out/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/helderberto/agent-skills/zoom-out)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/helderberto/agent-skills/zoom-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/helderberto/agent-skills/zoom-out/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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 zoom-out

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 170 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 $0.00052 $0.00170
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00068
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00017

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6b227a57cb1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 4d 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.

skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md · 14 lines

What it actually says

Read the code and anything it depends on before explaining. Then, always:

  1. Start with an analogy from everyday life.
  2. Draw an ASCII diagram matching the shape of the thing: flow, sequence between actors, tree/hierarchy, state machine, data structure, or before/after. One concept per diagram — split rather than cram.
  3. Walk through the code step by step.
  4. Highlight a gotcha: a common mistake or misconception.

Conversational tone. Complex concepts get more than one analogy.

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. 4d ago First seen · 14 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 6b227a57cb1d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zoom-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository helderberto/agent-skills (17 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 170 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-12.

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