distill-software SKILL.md skillA
distill-software from baphuongna/pi-crew is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add baphuongna/pi-crew/distill-software@git:20260911.c97bc57Pins git:20260911.c97bc57 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- baphuongna/pi-crew
- Path
skills/distill-software/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20260911.c97bc57, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 25, 2026
- Size
- 59,845 bytes
- Repository stars
- 59
- License
- MIT
Distill software engineering expertise — an engineer's judgment, a codebase's conventions, or a domain's practice — and APPLY it to a TARGET project (never outputs a reusable skill file). REQUIRED — read the full skill file first (multi-phase protocol with machine-checked gates); run the validate-run script on <run-dir> before claiming done — ALL-GREEN required. When NOT to use: person/figure thinking patterns (use distill-persona); generic engineering questions (use research).
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-software > Sibling of `distill-persona`, specialized for **software**. Inherits the base methodology (V1-V5 extraction verification, F2' framework-answerable-edge fidelity, exhaustive-sweep mode, self-correction meta-loop) and specializes: software-native sources (git/PR/ADR/CI/tests/code), **code-Expression-DNA** (measurable, not vibes), **pi-langsrv-native research** (symbol/call-graph, not just web), **staleness anchors**, and operational scripts wired into the protocol. > > Companion deep-dive: `~/source/my_pi/source/SOFTWARE-DISTILLATION-DEEP-DIVE.md`. > ⛔ **distill-software transforms a TARGET project. It NEVER builds a SKILL.md — building a reusable skill is the distill WORKFLOW's separate job (Capture mode), not this skill's. The deliverable is the target improved + APPLY-LOG.md. If you find yourself writing a SKILL.md, STOP — you have misunderstood the task; go back to applying patterns to the target.** ## Relationship to distill-persona …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add baphuongna/pi-crew/distill-software@sha256:682ec6576de08a89The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260911.c97bc57, 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_im524l2myhzejj72)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jul 25, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 10 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260911.c97bc57 latest | 2026-09-11 | c97bc57 | 59,845 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260805.e455815 | 2026-08-05 | e455815 | 59,720 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260726.418b9f2 | 2026-07-26 | 418b9f2 | 53,833 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.ba8b15c | 2026-07-25 | ba8b15c | 47,505 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.30f1c93 | 2026-07-25 | 30f1c93 | 41,936 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260725.df9d45e | 2026-07-25 | df9d45e | 41,423 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 (59845 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
baphuongna/pi-crew · 59 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_im524l2myhzejj72 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=baphuongna/pi-crew/distill-software GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/682ec6576de08a893c8c9ef5bd8f42c3240b17b45c437c7bfd3b4cc496f7282a
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.