system-zoom-out

system-zoom-out is a skill for Codex from markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills. It costs 69 tokens per session (284 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for explaining how a small piece of code connects to the wider system. It maps modules, entry points, callers, dependencies, boundaries, and the project's domain terms.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for architecture reviews, onboarding, unfamiliar subsystems, refactoring plans, and assessing the broader impact of a change.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand unfamiliar code without getting stuck in line-by-line detail. It also shows why a local change matters and what it might affect.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it for architecture reviews, onboarding, unfamiliar subsystems, refactoring plans, and assessing the broader impact of a change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills/system-zoom-out
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills --skill system-zoom-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 284 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 $0.00069 $0.00284
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00142
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00057
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00028

Measured 9d ago against content hash 7174ac06170d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

system-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 9d 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/system-zoom-out/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

System Zoom Out

When local detail is crowding out system understanding, step back and draw the map.

Output

Explain:

  • the relevant modules;
  • the entrypoints and callers;
  • the key dependencies and boundaries;
  • the domain language used in this area;
  • why this local change matters to the wider system.

Rules

  • Use the repo's domain language, not generic abstractions.
  • Prefer maps and relationships over line-by-line summaries.
  • Name what is outside the current focus so the user sees the edge of the map.
  • If the repo already has architecture docs, align with them or call out contradictions.

Best Use Cases

  • architecture audits;
  • unfamiliar code areas;
  • refactor proposals;
  • onboarding into a subsystem;
  • explaining blast radius before a change.

Final Report

Give the map, the boundaries, and the best next file or module to inspect if the user wants to go deeper.

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 42 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 7174ac06170d

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system-zoom-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository markoblogo/abvx-agent-skills (16 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 284 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 2026-09-03.

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