distill

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (GitHub) · coding · 30 stars · scanned at commit 677e798

Technical book (PDF or EPUB file) or an author's published web corpus (essays, posts) distilled into concept-organized reference files for a named target skill, a few chapters or pieces per session; writes skill reference files only. Use when the user provides a PDF or EPUB path, asks to turn a book into a skill, asks to distill an author's published essays into a skill, or continues a book distillation from its continuation prompt. A single docs page goes to /knowledge:docpage-digest.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 5 places.

plugins/knowledge/skills/distill/SKILL.md, line 17node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/repo-visibility.mjs" "<session-root>/.claude/skills/<target-slug>"
plugins/knowledge/scripts/repo-visibility.mjs, line 50import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
plugins/knowledge/scripts/repo-visibility.mjs, line 75const r = spawnSync(command, args, { env, encoding: "utf8", timeout: TIMEOUT_MS, stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] });

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plugins/knowledge/scripts/work-root.mjs, line 17import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
plugins/knowledge/scripts/work-root.mjs, line 110top = execFileSync("git", ["rev-parse", "--show-toplevel"], {

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this. It runs automatically when the plugin is installed.

Found in 1 place.

plugins/knowledge/.claude-plugin/plugin.json, line 77"description": "Path to the Python interpreter that imports faster_whisper, probed before python, python3 and py on PATH (video-digest's optional ASR rung). Use

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'distill' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'distill' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named distill already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '677e7988f432dacb5e2d4df2b124f96da8e8f9f3' -- 'plugins/knowledge/skills/distill' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/knowledge/skills/distill' ~/.agents/skills/'distill' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'distill' ~/.claude/skills/'distill' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-09	`677e798`	82
2026-11-07	`81c7244`	82