skill-distiller SKILL.md skillA

skill-distiller from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add iliaal/whetstone/skill-distiller@git:20261011.6d60d2e

Pins git:20261011.6d60d2e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: iliaal/whetstone
Path: .claude/skills/skill-distiller/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261011.6d60d2e, committed Oct 11, 2026
First version recorded: Feb 27, 2026
Size: 19,139 bytes
Repository stars: 35
License: MIT

Fetches top-rated skills from skills.sh, analyzes them, and synthesizes one token-efficient skill combining the best elements. Use when the user asks to "distill skills for X", "find and combine skills for X", "synthesize skills", "merge skills", "make a skill for X from skills.sh", "update distilled skill", or mentions combining, distilling, or synthesizing multiple skills into one token-efficient skill.

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

Fetches top-rated skills from skills.sh for a task, analyzes them, and synthesizes one token-efficient skill combining the best elements.

## Modes

### Distill `<query>`

**1. Search** — Find qualifying skills:

```bash
python3 distillery/scripts/distiller.py search "<query1>" "<query2>" ...
```

Returns JSON array of qualifying skills (filtered to `installs >= 100`, top 10, deduplicated). If fewer than 3 qualify, threshold drops to 50. Save this output — it feeds into Step 2.

**1b. Triage before fetching** — High install count does not correlate with quality. Before fetching, scan the search results: read skill descriptions and source repo names. Skip sources that are clearly generic checklists, project-specific tools, or domains outside the target skill's scope. Only fetch sources that suggest genuinely new patterns or techniques.

**2. Fetch** — Stage sources and compute checksums:

```bash
python3 distillery/scripts/distiller.py fetch --skills '<JSON from Step 1>'
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add iliaal/whetstone/skill-distiller@sha256:4f7c369c19f42b76

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261011.6d60d2e, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_cbg44yzyu2guwx7w.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_cbg44yzyu2guwx7w)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 27, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 57 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261011.6d60d2e latest	2026-10-11	6d60d2e	19,139 B	A	view · diff
git:20260707.66bdad7	2026-07-07	66bdad7	16,910 B	A	view · diff
git:20260331.18855d7	2026-03-31	18855d7	16,625 B	A	view · diff
git:20260318.4c4630f	2026-03-18	4c4630f	19,039 B	A	view · diff
git:20260227.215f429	2026-02-27	215f429	18,324 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (19139 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

GitHub

iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cbg44yzyu2guwx7w
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/skill-distiller
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4f7c369c19f42b76d453aeb6b913e15bd015cface2753301799046caefb364be

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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