Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to act-sdk/act-sdk-js. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/act-sdk/act-sdk-js/main/.agents/skills/distill/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/act-sdk/act-sdk-jsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/act-sdk/act-sdk-js/distill)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/act-sdk/act-sdk-js/distill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/act-sdk/act-sdk-js/distill/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/act-sdk/act-sdk-js/distill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/act-sdk/act-sdk-js/distill.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00023 | $0.01478 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00009 | $0.00591 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00296 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00148 |
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 1mo 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.
This is a copy
72% identical to distill — 27 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Remove unnecessary complexity from designs, revealing the essential elements and creating clarity through ruthless simplification.
MANDATORY PREPARATION
Context Gathering (Do This First)
You cannot do a great job without having necessary context, such as target audience (critical), desired use-cases (critical), and understanding what's truly essential vs nice-to-have for this product.
Attempt to gather these from the current thread or codebase.
- If you don't find exact information and have to infer from existing design and functionality, you MUST STOP and STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. whether you got it right.
- Otherwise, if you can't fully infer or your level of confidence is medium or lower, you MUST STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify. clarifying questions first to complete your context.
Do NOT proceed until you have answers. Simplifying the wrong things destroys usability.
Use frontend-design skill
Use the frontend-design skill for design principles and anti-patterns. Do NOT proceed until it has executed and you know all DO's and DON'Ts.
Assess Current State
Analyze what makes the design feel complex or cluttered:
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Identify complexity sources:
- Too many elements: Competing buttons, redundant information, visual clutter
- Excessive variation: Too many colors, fonts, sizes, styles without purpose
- Information overload: Everything visible at once, no progressive disclosure
- Visual noise: Unnecessary borders, shadows, backgrounds, decorations
- Confusing hierarchy: Unclear what matters most
- Feature creep: Too many options, actions, or paths forward
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Find the essence:
- What's the primary user goal? (There should be ONE)
- What's actually necessary vs nice-to-have?
- What can be removed, hidden, or combined?
- What's the 20% that delivers 80% of value?
If any of these are unclear from the codebase, STOP and call the AskUserQuestionTool to clarify.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 137 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A c81175148eb9
distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository act-sdk/act-sdk-js (3 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,478 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 72% identical to distill, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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