Distill Memory

by nowledge-co

Distill Memory is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by nowledge-co in community.

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Install Distill Memory

Copy Distill Memory 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/nowledge-co/community/tree/main/nowledge-mem-codex-plugin/skills/distill-memory ~/.claude/skills/distill-memory

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/nowledge-co/community.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: nowledge-mem-codex-plugin/skills/distill-memory/SKILL.md in nowledge-co/community
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/distill-memory
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Distill Memory does

Distill Memory saves key decisions, procedures, learnings, preferences, and plans as durable memories. Use it when something non-obvious is discovered or a significant choice is made so future sessions can find it again.

Distill Memory is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Distill Memory comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, alma, claude-code, cursor-plugin and gemini-cli-extension.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Capture what matters before the session ends. Save decisions, procedures, and learnings as durable memories that any connected AI tool can find later.

What to distill

Decisions with rationale ("we chose PostgreSQL because ACID is required")
Procedures: non-obvious steps, workarounds, setup sequences
Learnings: surprises, gotchas, corrections to prior assumptions
Preferences: user's stated preferences for future reference
Plans that future sessions will need to resume
Context that would be lost when the session ends

What to skip

Routine code changes, obvious fixes, standard operations
Work in progress that will change before it matters
Generic information already widely known
Simple Q&A answerable from documentation

Workflow

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

Frequently asked about Distill Memory

What else does nowledge-co publish alongside Distill Memory?
Distill Memory is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nowledge-co/community, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Browse Now, Check Connector and Distill Memory. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Distill Memory does, and is maintained by nowledge-co in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nowledge-co/community page.
How does Distill Memory compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Distill Memory ranks #3325 by stars among the 3670 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 Memory against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.