ase-docs-distill SKILL.md skillA
ase-docs-distill from rse/ase is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rse/ase/ase-docs-distill@git:20260806.5187a40Pins git:20260806.5187a40 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rse/ase
- Path
plugin/skills/ase-docs-distill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260806.5187a40, committed Aug 6, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 18, 2026
- Size
- 4,970 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Distill a provided document into a flat, importance-ranked list of its key points, each with a salience rank, a rationale, and a verbatim line-cited evidence snippet. Use when the user wants to "distill", "summarize the key points", or "extract the essence" of a document or pasted text.
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
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md
@${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md
<purpose name="ase-docs-distill">
Distill Key Points
</purpose>
<expand name="getopt"
arg1="ase-docs-distill"
arg2="--top|-t=5">
$ARGUMENTS
</expand>
<objective>
*Distill* the content `<getopt-arguments/>` into a *flat*,
*importance-ranked* list of its *key points* - each point an
*atomic* claim carrying a *0-10 salience rank*, a *one-line
rationale*, and a *verbatim, line-cited evidence* snippet - keeping
at most `<getopt-option-top/>` points.
</objective>
Procedure
---------
<flow>
1. <step id="STEP 1: Resolve Input">
Resolve the document source from <getopt-arguments/> using
*probe-as-file-first* semantics:
1. <if condition="<getopt-arguments/> is empty">
Only output the following <template/> and then *STOP* immediately:
<template>
⧉ **ASE**: ✪ skill: **ase-docs-distill**, ▶ status: **no document to distill**
</template>
</if>
2. Treat the *entire* <getopt-arguments/> as a *file path*. If it
resolves to a *readable file*, read that file and capture its
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rse/ase/ase-docs-distill@sha256:18277cc567c4230cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260806.5187a40, 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_lm6ubef3cfspinm3)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 18, 2026 and Aug 6, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260806.5187a40 latest | 2026-08-06 | 5187a40 | 4,970 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.af0eeb8 | 2026-08-04 | af0eeb8 | 4,965 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260801.f1208fb | 2026-08-01 | f1208fb | 4,964 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260721.7bb8229 | 2026-07-21 | 7bb8229 | 4,960 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260618.5f7ee70 | 2026-06-18 | 5f7ee70 | 4,984 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 (4970 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
rse/ase · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lm6ubef3cfspinm3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rse/ase/ase-docs-distill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/18277cc567c4230cb64fd99944f997b0a91c70155d3d6ae89baf73ed594071b4
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