tierdecay-distill

tierdecay-distill is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alebgl77/tierdecay. It costs 59 tokens per session (513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A task-closing procedure for the TierDecay protocol. It records the task result, handles failed reusable entries, updates confidence information, and distills successful recurring work into a short reusable rule.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after verification to append a ledger entry, quarantine failed playbook guidance, update its status, or create a new TierDecay entry.
Why use it?
It keeps a record of what worked, prevents failed guidance from being reused unchanged, and turns repeated successful decisions into documented procedures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after verification to append a ledger entry, quarantine failed playbook guidance, update its status, or create a new TierDecay entry.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alebgl77/tierdecay/tierdecay-distill
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alebgl77/tierdecay --skill tierdecay-distill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alebgl77/tierdecay

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 513 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 $0.00059 $0.00513
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00205
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00051

Measured 13d ago against content hash e2f148f0eb82, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tierdecay-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 13d 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.

core/agent-skills/tierdecay-distill/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

TierDecay DISTILL (orchestrator only)

Executors never write .tierdecay/. Run this after VERIFY, once per task.

  1. Ledger row. One row per task in .tierdecay/ledger.md (keep the last 50): date | class | predicted | executed | outcome | esc | playbook. For a measured ledger, prefer tierdecay observe --observation row.json --append .tierdecay/ledger.md (validated, locked, atomic) or the MCP tierdecay_record tool when the server runs with --allow-ledger-append true.
  2. Referenced entry failed? Move it to QUARANTINE with a one-line cause; the failed tier becomes its sticky floor:. Never apply, export, or probe a quarantined entry until revised.
  3. Probe passed? hits +1. When hits reach 3 / 4 / 5 for the entry's risk: 0 / 1 / 2 (risk 3 never decays; no risk: = 2), rewrite provenance: to the tier that passed and reset hits to 0.
  4. Recertification passed? Set epoch: to the current binding epoch, hits: 0.
  5. Distill only after a T2/T3 success on a class that will recur: a ≤15-line entry with provenance, risk, epoch, WHEN, DO, VERIFY. Decisions only — invariants, ordering, the trap — never diffs, secrets, or volatile values. If the lower tier already passes cold, routing alone captures the saving: do not distill.
  6. Hygiene. Playbook hard cap 150 lines; evict lowest hits, oldest first. Run tierdecay status (or tierdecay_status) for owed bookkeeping and tierdecay export --format skills --out .agents/skills to refresh skills.
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. 13d ago First seen · 32 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A e2f148f0eb82

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tierdecay-distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository alebgl77/tierdecay (1 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 513 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-02.

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