zoom-out

zoom-out is a skill for Claude Code from kraulerson/solo-orchestrator. It costs 66 tokens per session (758 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for stepping back from a coding task and mapping it to the wider project. It asks the agent to inspect the current project phase, related modules and callers, documented architecture decisions, and the project's main design record.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when entering unfamiliar code, changing direction between project phases, investigating how modules connect, or deciding whether a documented architecture decision is needed.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making a locally reasonable change that conflicts with the rest of the system. It gives the agent context before an architectural or cross-module decision.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when entering unfamiliar code, changing direction between project phases, investigating how modules connect, or deciding whether a documented architecture decision is needed.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 66 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 758 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00066 $0.00758
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00379
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00076

Measured 11d ago against content hash 7291923d0b45, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

templates/generated/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zoom Out

Attribution. Adapted from mattpocock/skills (MIT, © Matt Pocock). The upstream is a one-paragraph prompt to "go up a layer of abstraction." Solo's adaptation points the zoom-out at the project's actual artifacts (PROJECT_BIBLE, phase-state, ADRs, backlog) so the map produced is grounded in canonical sources, not improvised. See NOTICE for full attribution.

I don't know this area of code (or this decision point) well enough. Go up a layer of abstraction. Produce a map that uses the project's actual vocabulary.

What to include

  1. Where we are. Current phase (read .claude/phase-state.json), current Build Loop state (read .claude/process-state.json), current branch, current PR (if any).
  2. The relevant code surface. Modules, files, and callers touching the area in question. Use the names that already exist in the codebase — not invented categories.
  3. The relevant decisions. Read docs/ADR documentation/ for any ADRs in this area. Cite them by number. If a decision is about to be made, ask whether an ADR should be opened.
  4. The relevant architectural truth. Cross-reference PROJECT_BIBLE.md (architecture, data model, threat model). If PROJECT_BIBLE.md and the code disagree on something material, surface the contradiction.
  5. What's in flight. Read solo-orchestrator-backlog.md (or the project's backlog) for any related open BL items. Note open pending-approval.json sentinels.
  6. What the next decision actually depends on. Not "what could come next" — what is BLOCKED on what.

What to skip

  • Long prose summaries of the codebase. The map is structural, not literary.
  • Speculation about future features not on the backlog.
  • Repeating content from PROJECT_BIBLE.md verbatim — link to it instead.

When this is most valuable

  • Between features. After process-checklist.sh --complete-step build_loop:feature_recorded, before the next --start-feature. The zoom-out is the natural Context Health Check moment (Builder's Guide § "Context Health Checks every 3-4 features").
  • At a phase transition. Phase 2→3, Phase 3→4. Step back before crossing the gate.
  • When debugging. Before diving into a hard bug, zoom-out tells you which other systems share the failure surface.
  • When onboarding a successor or returning after a break. The map is the resumption substrate (pairs with session-handoff for that case).
  • When stuck on a design decision. If the next step has two defensible paths, zoom-out surfaces the decisions and artifacts that should weigh on the choice.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 11d ago First seen · 41 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 7291923d0b45

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zoom-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository kraulerson/solo-orchestrator (29 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 758 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 2026-08-30.

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