pr-distill

pr-distill is a command for Claude Code from axiomantic/spellbook. It costs 17 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pull-request analysis command that examines a PR’s changes and produces a report showing which changes may need review, which may be safe to skip, and which are uncertain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with a pull-request number or URL to create a review distillation report from the diff.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers focus on changes that need attention while showing the evidence or uncertainty behind each classification.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node lib/distilling-prs/index.js <pr-identifier>.

Good fit Use it with a pull-request number or URL to create a review…

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomantic/spellbook
agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/axiomantic/spellbook/pr-distill

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 713 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00017 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00071

Measured 3d ago against content hash fcdf15a2df30, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pr-distill 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 3d 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.

commands/pr-distill.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR Distill

Invariant Principles

  1. Heuristics First: Run heuristic pattern matching before AI analysis. Heuristics are fast and deterministic.
  2. Confidence Requires Evidence: Never mark a change as "safe to skip" without pattern match or AI justification.
  3. Surface Uncertainty: Low-confidence cases → categorize as "uncertain". Humans decide ambiguous cases.
  4. Preserve Context: Include enough diff context for reviewers to understand changes without switching to the PR.

Execution

Phase 1: Fetch, Parse, Match

node lib/distilling-prs/index.js <pr-identifier>

Phase 2: Complete Analysis

node lib/distilling-prs/index.js --continue <pr-identifier> <ai-response-file>

Usage

/distilling-prs <pr-number-or-url>

Examples

/distilling-prs 123
/distilling-prs https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/456

Output

Report path: ~/.local/spellbook/docs/<project-encoded>/pr-reviews/pr-<number>-distill.md

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 3d ago First seen · 92 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A fcdf15a2df30

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pr-distill is a command published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 713 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.