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distill is agent-read markdown (skill) from yuno15-bb/greymatter-engine: Turn what was just worked out into a C Brain note — filed in the right zone, linked to what it relates to, indexed. Use when the user says "remember this", "save that", "note it down", "distill this session", or when a non-obvious problem has just been solved and the reasoning would otherwise be lost..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

What the file says

# Distill into a note

A session ends and its reasoning goes with it unless something is written down.
This writes it down, in the shape the trunk expects.

## What deserves a note

Only what a future reader could not re-derive cheaply:

- a defect and **how it was found**, not just the fix;
- a decision, its alternatives, and why they lost;
- a constraint that is not visible in the code.

Not: what the repository already records, what only matters to this
conversation, or a summary of work anyone could read from the diff.

## Shape

One fact per file, in `~/.c-brain/trunk/<zone>/<slug>.md` where zone is
`lessons` (cross-project), `projects/<name>`, `meta` (ways of working) or
`life`.

```markdown
---
name: <short-kebab-case-slug>
description: <one line — this is what recall ranks on, so make it say the fact>
metadata:
  type: reference
---

<the fact, stated so it is useful without this conversation>

Why: <what makes it non-obvious>

How to apply: <the reflex it should produce next time>
```

Link related notes with `[[their-slug]]`. Link generously — a link to a note
that does not exist yet marks something worth writing, not an error.

## Then
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add yuno15-bb/greymatter-engine/distill@git:20260729.12a9be5
Exact content
mdr add yuno15-bb/greymatter-engine/distill@sha256:2893910c9f2c2a6d

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1759 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

yuno15-bb/greymatter-engine · 3 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nxgqdn4cdu2cld4b
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=yuno15-bb/greymatter-engine/distill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2893910c9f2c2a6df02f174045ff31118f0459e7564c9248aee149d66120432c

Your agent 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.

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