Distill

by samuelfaj

Distill is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by samuelfaj in distill.

670 stars43 forkson samuelfaj/distillAdded 2026/08/24Repository updated 2026/06/18

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Install Distill

Copy Distill into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill/tree/main/skills/distill ~/.claude/skills/distill

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/samuelfaj/distill.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/distill/SKILL.md in samuelfaj/distill
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/distill
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Distill does

Distill makes the assistant speak in compressed distill language for the whole thread. Use it when a user invokes /distill or asks for this mode, not for one-off prompt compression.

Distill is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Distill comes from a repository tagged claude-code, codex, llm and tokens.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Distill

Use when user invokes /distill or asks to use distill language.

This is a conversation style mode, not a prompt-compression request.

Do not return the user's prompt compressed as an artifact. Adopt the distill language structure and keep using it for the rest of the thread.

Core Rule

Talk with the user in distill language:

English only, unless user explicitly requests another output language
Military English + AR-0/AR-1 baseline
short command lines
fixed semantic prefixes
semantic atoms over natural phrases
one idea per line
explicit constraints
explicit pass criteria
exact paths, commands, env vars, IDs when useful
no filler
no cryptic code
no long prose unless user asks for explanation

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Distill provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/distill

Frequently asked about Distill

What else does samuelfaj publish alongside Distill?
Distill is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from samuelfaj/distill, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Distill. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Distill does, and is maintained by samuelfaj in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the samuelfaj/distill page.
How does Distill compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Distill ranks #1808 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Distill against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.