engineering / Plan & design
zoom-out
Tell the agent to zoom out and give broader context or a higher-level perspective.
Put it to work.
Ask your agent to use zoom-out. This skill runs only when you request it.
Use the zoom-out skillInvocation syntax varies by agent. Use the skill name in your prompt, or your agent’s supported slash command.
About this skill
Tell the agent to zoom out and give a higher-level perspective on an unfamiliar section of code — a map of the relevant modules and callers, named in the project's domain vocabulary.
The skill body is one paragraph: it's deliberately small, and explicitly
disables model-invocation auto-triggering (disable-model-invocation: true)
so it only runs when you call it.
Install
npx skills@latest add smeltery/skillsOr copy just this skill:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/zoom-out
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smeltery/skills/main/skills/engineering/zoom-out/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/zoom-out/SKILL.mdUsage
Use when you don't know an area of code well and need orientation before making changes.
Files
SKILL.md— canonical skill definition.
Attribution
Ported from mattpocock/skills under MIT. See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Read the full SKILL.md
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, using the project's domain glossary vocabulary.