seed

seed is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 5queezer/distill. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,028 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that fills a distill knowledge base with decisions, patterns, failures, and context found in a repository's Git history. Git history is the record of changes made to a codebase over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Surveying a repository, reviewing commits in batches, classifying their context, and storing the results with the commits' original dates.
Why use it?
It preserves useful reasoning from past work so an AI assistant can refer to the project's previous decisions and lessons.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/5queezer/distill/seed
Any agent
npx skills add 5queezer/distill --skill seed
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/5queezer/distill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 seed

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/5queezer/distill/seed.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/5queezer/distill/seed)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/5queezer/distill/seed"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/5queezer/distill/seed.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,028 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.01028
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00514
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00206
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00103

Measured 3d ago against content hash bac17946ba71, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seed scanned grade A with 1 finding 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:${DISTILL_INGEST_PORT:-21746}/observe \
src/distill_mcp/skills/seed/SKILL.md · 123 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 123 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Seed Knowledge Base from Git History

Populate the distill MCP knowledge base from the current repo's git history. Extracts decisions, patterns, failures, and context from commits and stores them with correct metadata.

Prerequisites

  • distill MCP server running with search_memory and update_memory tools available
  • Ingest HTTP endpoint running (started automatically with the MCP server)
  • Inside a git repository

Workflow

1. Survey the repo

REPO_NAME=$(basename $(git rev-parse --toplevel))
COMMIT_COUNT=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)
echo "$REPO_NAME: $COMMIT_COUNT commits"
git log --oneline --reverse | head -20
git log --oneline --reverse | tail -20

Report the repo name and commit count to the user. Ask if they want to seed all commits or a date range.

2. Process commits in batches of 10

git log --reverse --format="%H %aI %s" [--since="YYYY-MM-DD"]

For each commit:

Extract the timestamp — use the commit's author date (%aI), NEVER the current time.

Classify the commit:

Type What to extract Example
decision Chose X over Y because Z "Replaced SQLite with asyncpg for stateless GKE deployment"
pattern Recurring convention "All services use structlog with JSON output to stderr"
failure Tried X, abandoned because Y "Tried Redis for persistence, reverted — too complex for single-node"
dependency Service A depends on B "Parser requires pgvector extension >= 0.5"
context Migration/state at a point in time "Auth middleware rewrite started, driven by compliance requirements"

Skip these:

  • chore: formatting, linting, dep bumps without rationale
  • Merge commits with no original content
  • fix: typos, whitespace, trivial CI tweaks

Short commit messages (1-2 lines): Read the diff — the real decision is in the code.

git show <hash> --stat
git show <hash> -- <relevant files>

Long/AI-generated messages: The message IS the knowledge. Skim code only if unclear.

Read the full file on GitHub · 123 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 · 123 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A bac17946ba71

Subscribe to this mod's changes

seed is a skill published in the GitHub repository 5queezer/distill (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,028 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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