i-distill

i-distill is a skill for Claude Code from boussadjra/vuestrata. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of distill, MIT.

A design-review guide focused on simplifying interfaces by removing unnecessary complexity. It requires understanding the audience and use cases before deciding what should be simplified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a product interface, identify nonessential elements, simplify layouts or interactions, and clarify which parts are essential versus optional.
Why use it?
It helps prevent clutter and unclear choices, while avoiding changes based on guesses about what users need. It also requires checking the existing design and following frontend design guidance.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review a product interface, identify nonessential elements, simplify layouts or interactions, and clarify which parts are essential versus optional.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boussadjra/vuestrata/i-distill
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 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 83% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00024 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00146

Measured 11d ago against content hash ce4b6b3e57a6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

i-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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

83% identical to distill — 33 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.

.github/skills/i-distill/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 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.

  1. If you don't find exact information and have to infer from existing design and functionality, you MUST STOP and ask the user directly to clarify what you cannot infer. whether you got it right.
  2. Otherwise, if you can't fully infer or your level of confidence is medium or lower, you MUST ask the user directly to clarify what you cannot infer. 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 i-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:

  1. 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
  2. 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, ask the user directly to clarify what you cannot infer.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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. 11d ago First seen · 143 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A ce4b6b3e57a6

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i-distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository boussadjra/vuestrata (111 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,465 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 83% identical to distill, differing in 33 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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