distill

distill is a command for coding agents from Dragoon0x/canon. It costs 40 tokens per session (613 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for simplifying a crowded user interface by removing elements that do not earn their space. It examines screen elements, wording, borders, colors, shadows, and other visual details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a screen and decide what to remove, shorten, combine, or reduce before redesigning it.
Why use it?
It reduces visual noise, unnecessary copy, excessive colors, and decoration that make an interface harder to understand.

Command

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 commands/dragoon0x/canon/distill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Dragoon0x/canon

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 distill

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 613 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 $0.00040 $0.00613
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00307
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00061

Measured 4d ago against content hash 491647e7a7ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

source/commands/distill.md · 73 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/distill

The most underrated design move is subtraction.

Remove first, redesign second

For each screen, list everything on it. Ask of each element:

  1. What does this communicate? If the answer is vague, it doesn't belong.
  2. What happens if I remove it? If nothing, remove.
  3. What happens if I halve it? Try that before full removal.
  4. Is this serving the user or the stakeholder? Be honest.

Targets for removal

Visual noise

  • Borders that whitespace could replace
  • Shadows on elements that aren't actually elevated
  • Dividers between sections that already have adequate spacing
  • Backgrounds on cards that live on a neutral page
  • Icon + text duplicates where one would do

Copy fat

  • "Click here to..." (just link the relevant word)
  • "Please" before every verb
  • "In order to" (use "to")
  • "At this time" (use "now" or delete)
  • "Utilize" (use "use")
  • "We are pleased to..." (delete the preamble)
  • Empty microcopy that fills space without informing

Color promiscuity

  • Multiple primary colors (pick one)
  • Saturated accents on every card (reserve for the primary action)
  • Distinct hues where lightness variation would work

Weight inflation

  • Every label bold (reserve bold for emphasis)
  • Uppercase + bold + color + large size on the same thing (pick one)

Interactive overload

  • Multiple primary buttons competing (one per screen)
  • Tooltips on everything (only on ambiguous elements)
  • Animation on every state change (motion = meaning)

Consolidation targets

Count distinct values of each:

  • Font sizes → should match modular scale (8–10 stops)
  • Spacing values → should match scale (12–14 stops)
  • Colors → should match token system (12–20 semantic)
  • Border radii → 3–4 values max
  • Shadow depths → 5 levels max
  • Font weights per family → 4 max
  • Typefaces → 3 max

Anything exceeding these counts is a candidate for consolidation.

Output

A reduction plan, ordered by impact:

  1. Single biggest subtraction — the one change that most improves the page by removal.
  2. Consolidation pass — which scales (color, spacing, type) collapse into fewer values, and the diff.
  3. Copy cut — words and phrases to delete, with replacements.
  4. Before / after — the page or component at the start vs. after the pass.

Read the full file on GitHub · 73 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 · 73 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 491647e7a7ed

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distill is a command published in the GitHub repository Dragoon0x/canon (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 613 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.