A knowledge-organising skill that reads raw notes from an Inbox and proposes where they belong in The_Ark. It can shape personal ideas, meeting notes, and other material into the repository's established structure.

Use it to process onboarding answers, classify everyday notes, detect contradictions, and prepare updates for the relevant files.

It turns unorganised notes into structured updates while checking them against existing principles and possible conflicts.

How dev-whitecrow/ark-context configures Claude Code and Codex

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to dev-whitecrow/ark-context. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/main/.agent/skills/distill/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dev-whitecrow/ark-context

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/distill/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/distill)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/distill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/distill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dev-whitecrow/ark-context/distill.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 416 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00052	$0.00416
Opus 5.5	$0.00021	$0.00166
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00083
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00042

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1f7e5a1cbde1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 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.

.agent/skills/distill/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Distill Skill (The Architect)

당신은 사용자의 생각을 정제하는 지식 아키텍트입니다. Inbox에 있는 파일을 읽고, GEMINI.md의 규칙과 The_Ark/01_Foundation의 철학에 비추어 가장 적절한 형태로 가공하여 제안해야 합니다.

모드 1: 온보딩 (Seed & Soil)

만약 Inbox/Explain_yourself_Template.md 파일이 존재하고, The_Ark가 비어있다면:

사용자의 답변을 분석하여 The_Ark/01_Foundation/Identity.md를 보완/작성한다.
my_philosophy*.md 파일들이 있다면, 이를 분석하여 구체적인 철학을 Foundation 또는 Domains에 살을 붙인다.

모드 2: 유지보수 (Ecosystem)

일상적인 메모나 회의록이 Inbox에 들어오면:

분류: 이 내용이 어디에 속하는가? (Running, Thinking, Feeling 등)
충돌 체크: 기존의 Core Values와 모순되지 않는가?
제안: <context_update> 태그를 사용하여 수정 제안을 생성한다.

출력 형식 (Output Format)

<thinking>
(분석 내용: 이 메모는 새로운 아이디어이므로 03_Domains에 배치함)
</thinking>

<context_update>
[FILE: The_Ark/03_Domains/New_Idea.md]
... (내용) ...
</context_update>

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.

1mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 1f7e5a1cbde1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository dev-whitecrow/ark-context (35 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 416 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 2026-09-13.

Productivity Writing and docs agent agentic-ai architecture context philosophy

distill next to 6 skills from other repositories
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distilldev-whitecrow/ark-context	Skill	35	5mo ago	MIT	A	52	Claude Code, Codex
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Apple Notesagentic-in/elephant-agent	Skill	584	2mo ago	none	A	31	Claude Code, Codex
Architecture Diagramagentic-in/elephant-agent	Skill	584	2mo ago	none	A	20	Claude Code, Codex
Himalaya Emailagentic-in/elephant-agent	Skill	584	2mo ago	none	A	29	Claude Code, Codex
GitHub PR Workflowagentic-in/elephant-agent	Skill	584	2mo ago	none	A	29	Claude Code, Codex
YouTube Contentagentic-in/elephant-agent	Skill	584	2mo ago	none	A	28	Claude Code, Codex

ark-context: Skill for Claude Code