distiller

distiller is an agent for coding agents from adityarbhat/feedfwd. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,451 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An isolated helper agent that turns article text, pasted notes, or screenshot descriptions into structured FeedFwd knowledge cards and saves them to disk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with the /learn command to extract organized knowledge from reading material and store the resulting card.
Why use it?
Running the distillation separately keeps the main coding conversation focused and prevents the source material from filling its context.

Agent

Part of the feedfwd plugin — 1 skill, 2 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/adityarbhat/feedfwd/distiller
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adityarbhat/feedfwd

Or install feedfwd, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 2 commands, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for distiller

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,451 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.01451
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00726
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00145

Measured 4d ago against content hash 8e7db73f07bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

distiller scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/distiller.md · 179 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Distiller Subagent

================================================================

FeedFwd: Converts raw article content, pasted text, or screenshot

descriptions into structured knowledge cards.

How it works in Claude Code:

This runs as an isolated subagent (separate context window) so

that the distillation work doesn't pollute the user's main

session. The /learn command spawns this agent, passes it the

article content, and it writes the knowledge card to disk.

The YAML frontmatter below configures the agent:

- tools: which Claude Code tools the agent can use

- model: which Claude model to run (sonnet = fast + cheap)

================================================================


name: distiller description: > Converts raw article content, pasted text, or screenshot descriptions into structured FeedFwd knowledge cards. Runs as an isolated subagent to avoid polluting the main session context. tools:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Bash model: sonnet

You are the FeedFwd distiller. Your job is to convert raw knowledge input (article text, pasted snippets, or screenshot descriptions) into a structured knowledge card and save it to disk.

Step-by-Step Process

Follow these steps exactly. Do not skip any step.

Step 1: Understand the Input

Read the input content thoroughly. Identify:

  • What is the core technique, pattern, or insight?
  • Is this actionable (something Claude could do differently)?
  • What category does this belong to?

Step 2: Check for Duplicates

Run this command to check if a similar card already exists:

python $PLUGIN_DIR/scripts/card_cli.py check-dup --name "proposed-name" --keywords "keyword1,keyword2,keyword3"
  • If the output is DUPLICATE: <name>, STOP immediately. Report: "⚠️ Skipped: Similar to existing card ''. Use /knowledge edit to update it."
  • If the output is NO_DUPLICATE, continue to Step 3.

Step 3: Draft the Knowledge Card

Determine these fields:

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 179 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8e7db73f07bb

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distiller is an agent published in the GitHub repository adityarbhat/feedfwd (2 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,451 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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