skill-distiller SKILL.md skillA
skill-distiller from mathews-tom/armory is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/skill-distiller@v1.0.2Pins v1.0.2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- mathews-tom/armory
- Path
skills/skill-distiller/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.0.2, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 7, 2026
- Size
- 8,903 bytes
- Repository stars
- 339
- License
- MIT
Converts Opus-quality skills into deterministic Haiku-executable workflows via trace-driven distillation and cross-model validation. Triggers on: "distill this skill", "make this skill work on Haiku", "cross-model optimization", "optimize skill for cost". NOT for code simplification, use code-refiner.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Skill Distiller Transform skills authored for high-capability models (Opus) into deterministic workflows that execute reliably on lower-cost models (Sonnet, Haiku). The core insight from EvoSkills: skills encode reusable task structure, not model-specific artifacts. A skill evolved on Opus transfers with +35-45pp gains to other models — but only when the instructions are sufficiently deterministic that lower-capability models can follow them without improvising. ## Reference Files | File | Contents | Load When | | -------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | | `references/distillation-patterns.md` | Pattern catalog for converting reasoning to rules | Always | ## Prerequisites …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add mathews-tom/armory/skill-distiller@sha256:6013ba4d84757236The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.2, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4cprvqnth55b33rd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 7, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 49 days. Its first recorded version is graded B and its latest A.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.2 latest | 2026-10-19 | 74120b7 | 8,903 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-04-16 | 3971a9b | 8,204 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-04-11 | 0aa221a | 8,168 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-04-09 | 1cc63e5 | 8,838 B | B | view · diff |
| v1.0.1 | 2026-04-07 | b03849d | 8,823 B | B | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8903 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
mathews-tom/armory · 339 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4cprvqnth55b33rd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mathews-tom/armory/skill-distiller GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6013ba4d84757236e9d44ed92f2f87934dfe8113580071c1805887a0e21ddcf9
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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