zoom-out

zoom-out is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,861 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-navigation guide for stepping back from the file you are editing and viewing its callers, public interfaces, and surrounding module boundary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are unfamiliar with an area of a codebase or need to decide where a bug fix or feature belongs.
Why use it?
It helps prevent fixing a problem at the wrong layer or changing code without understanding how the surrounding parts depend on it.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when you are unfamiliar with an area of a codebase or need to decide where a bug fix or feature belongs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/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 mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC --skill zoom-out
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC

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/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/zoom-out/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/zoom-out)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/zoom-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/zoom-out"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mattmre/evokore-mcp-public/zoom-out.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,861 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 $0.00043 $0.01861
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00931
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00372
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00186

Measured 11d ago against content hash 74cbc7934b02, 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.

SKILLS/COMMUNICATION/zoom-out/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zoom Out

When to use this skill

Use this skill when the current edit window is too low to make a sound design call — you need to see callers, public API surface, or the module boundary one layer above where you are looking. The trigger is "I am unfamiliar with this area" OR "this fix may belong somewhere else." Output is a short reframe paragraph plus a recommendation to keep zooming out or commit the current altitude.

Adapted From Upstream

This adapter is derived from zoom-out/SKILL.md in the mattpocock/skills submodule pinned at 90ea8eec03d4ae8f43427aaf6fe4722653561a42. The upstream is a single-line prompt that says "I don't know this area of code well. Go up a layer of abstraction. Give me a map of all the relevant modules and callers."

To read the upstream body without loading the full file, prefer:

nav_read_anchor SKILLS/upstream/mattpocock-skills/zoom-out/SKILL.md <anchor-id>

License: MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 Matt Pocock. See repo-root NOTICE and SKILLS/upstream/mattpocock-skills/LICENSE.

EVOKORE-Specific Adaptations

Concrete deltas vs the upstream prompt:

  • No "ask the user" loop. The upstream prompt assumes a human in the loop will provide the higher-level framing. EVOKORE is autonomous — this adapter reads prior artifacts instead: the in-flight diff (git diff --staged), the active session manifest at ~/.evokore/sessions/{sessionId}.json, the replay log at ~/.evokore/sessions/{sessionId}-replay.jsonl, and any evidence already captured at ~/.evokore/sessions/{sessionId}-evidence.jsonl.
  • nav_get_map substitution for "give me a map". Where the upstream asks the human to provide a map of modules and callers, EVOKORE calls the native nav_get_map tool against the file under edit (and any obvious caller files surfaced by git grep) to get a token-efficient anchor map without loading whole files.
  • Bounded-context awareness. When the file under edit lives inside a bounded context defined in docs/adr/0005-bounded-contexts.md, the reframe must name that context explicitly. Going up one layer of abstraction inside Session & Continuity is different from going up one layer inside Skill Registry & Discovery; the seam choice depends on which context's invariants apply.
  • Composition phrasing for downstream skills. When the reframe recommends a follow-up, this adapter emits the literal phrasing the static composition graph parses (e.g., "invoke ubiquitous-language skill" or "invoke docs-architect skill") so derive-skill-composition.js can edge to the correct next step.
  • Trigger-explicit description. Frontmatter description is rewritten from the upstream noun-ish phrasing into EVOKORE's "Use when ..." form so resolve_workflow semantic ranking can find this skill above deep reference leaves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

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 · 151 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 74cbc7934b02

Subscribe to this mod's changes

zoom-out is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattmre/EVOKORE-MCP-PUBLIC (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,861 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 2026-08-31.

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