zoom-out

zoom-out is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo. It costs 54 tokens per session (503 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A code-understanding workflow for learning how an unfamiliar function or file fits into the larger system before changing it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explain what code is for, locate where it is used, inspect related modules and documentation, and identify constraints before editing.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making a local edit without understanding its callers, dependencies, module, or existing guarantees.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to explain what code is for, locate where it is used, inspect related modules and documentation, and identify constraints before editing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinmendezai/the-adam-repo/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 Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo --skill zoom-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo

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
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 503 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 $0.00054 $0.00503
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00050

Measured 12d ago against content hash a64409bb1db1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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 · 43 lines

What it actually says

zoom-out

Adapted from Matt Pocock's zoom-out. Before you make a change, understand what it's part of.

When to use

  • You're about to modify a function in a module you've never read before.
  • The user pastes a snippet and asks "what does this do?" — answer the system-level question, not just line-by-line.
  • You suspect the change is bigger than the user thinks.

Workflow

For a target file/function:

  1. Read its module's entry point (often index.ts, mod.rs, or the file's containing module). Note what it exports.
  2. Find its callers. Use the code-review-graph MCP if available, or Grep for imports of the symbol. List file:line for each caller.
  3. Find its dependencies. What does it import? Are those internal or third-party?
  4. Place it in the architecture. Read plan/CONTEXT.md (or docs/) and locate the file's module in the system diagram.
  5. Identify invariants. What's the function's contract? What does its docstring say? What do its tests prove?
  6. Now answer. A good answer has three parts:
    • Purpose: what this exists to do, in one sentence.
    • Context: where it sits in the system (the module it's part of, the callers it serves).
    • Constraints: invariants the change must preserve.

Output shape

Three short paragraphs, in that order. Then — only then — answer the original question or proceed with the change.

Anti-patterns

  • Reading the function in isolation. You'll miss the contract.
  • Listing every caller without reading any of them. The number isn't useful; the patterns are.
  • "I'll just trace through it" without writing the answer down. The agent's next session won't have your trace.

Output

A three-paragraph zoom-out, suitable for inclusion in a PR description or a CONTEXT.md update.

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. 12d ago First seen · 43 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A a64409bb1db1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zoom-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository Justinmendezai/The-Adam-Repo (12 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 503 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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