distill SKILL.md skillA
distill from jhostalek/dotclaude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jhostalek/dotclaude/distill@git:20261015.5a51058Pins git:20261015.5a51058 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jhostalek/dotclaude
- Path
skills/distill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261015.5a51058, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 13, 2026
- Size
- 1,633 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- CC0-1.0
Distill rough text into dense, expert-register English where terms of art carry the intent.
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
# Distill Distill the target (my text, a named file, or else my previous message) into expert-register English. I write in a second language; you hold the vocabulary I lack. Elevate to it. The reader is a domain expert or a model. A **term of art** is the established word practitioners use for a concept: it carries a sentence or a paragraph of intent and recruits the reader's priors for free. 1. **Intent**: list every claim, constraint, exclusion, name, and branch in the original. Done when each original sentence maps to an item. 2. **Distill**: name each item with its term of art, then write the shortest text that carries the whole list. Cut restatement, hedging, and explanatory scaffolding. Choose the term practitioners actually use over the rarer synonym: precision, not ornament. Reject a term whose home-domain connotation pulls the wrong way. Keep my names, numbers, and stance. 3. **Back-translate**: give a cold-reader subagent the draft alone and ask it to restate the intent as a list. Diff that against step 1; each missing or drifted item is a loss to fix. Done when the lists match, or two rounds have run. Without subagents, expand each term yourself against step 1. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jhostalek/dotclaude/distill@sha256:caebba76338b1c07The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.5a51058, 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_6bf55lprdhpm3xa2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Mar 13, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 72 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261015.5a51058 latest | 2026-10-15 | 5a51058 | 1,633 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260512.c068512 | 2026-05-12 | c068512 | 4,157 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260329.bd56d95 | 2026-03-29 | bd56d95 | 4,138 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260313.4eaa437 | 2026-03-13 | 4eaa437 | 4,146 B | A | 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 (1633 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
jhostalek/dotclaude · 11 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6bf55lprdhpm3xa2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jhostalek/dotclaude/distill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/caebba76338b1c0769096b0451947fbf69c3ef932d8e3fc2867e570df8db003b
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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