dx-distill

dx-distill is a skill for Claude Code from dikamilo/dx-workflow. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,602 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery conversation that turns a product or project decision into a written brief. The brief records the problem, supporting evidence, scope, decisions, risks, and unanswered questions, with the source of each claim.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify a problem before building, define what is in or out of scope, record evidence, and identify the next uncertainty to resolve.
Why use it?
It prevents later work from relying on guessed context or unsupported assumptions. It gives the team a shared record of why a decision was made and what still needs checking.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to clarify a problem before building, define what is in or out of scope, record evidence, and identify the next uncertainty to resolve.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dikamilo/dx-workflow/dx-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 dikamilo/dx-workflow --skill dx-distill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dikamilo/dx-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,602 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 $0.00034 $0.01602
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00641
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00320
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00160

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5ae12395f818, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dx-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.

skills/dx-distill/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

dx-distill

Establish the context later skills would otherwise guess at. Help the user make the decision in front of them, then record its basis — scope, rules, open risks — as context/foundation/briefs/<slug>.md, where every claim carries its source. dx-brainstorm decides whether one idea is worth building; this establishes or refreshes the ground it stands on.

Writes that file and stops. It creates no container and promotes nothing — dx-new stays the router.

Never invent research, user behaviour, quotes, or measurements. A missing fact stays unknown or becomes a named hypothesis. A human's choice to build on an untested assumption doesn't convert it into evidence; a decision with no recorded confirmer stays proposal. Material the current decision actually needs goes on the collection plan — an irrelevant empty section needs no research task.

Guards. context/foundation/ absent → say to run /dx-init, stop. No user available → stop; this is a conversation, and the appetite, constraints and experience it exists to ask about are exactly what you must not invent. Every path named must resolve; an unresolvable one is asked about, never guessed at. An existing <slug>.md is a refresh: keep its ids and its history — a changed decision gets a superseding row, it doesn't overwrite the old one.

1 — Frame the decision, and the emphasis with it

Read enough to state what this session should help decide. Unclear → ask what the brief is for; a brief written toward no decision is a filing exercise, and its sections will be padded to look complete.

In the same exchange, name the emphasis you infer from what the material actually is — the way type already activates plan characteristics without the user naming a mode:

  • code and compatibility references → weight [PRODUCT]; follow up on what stays unchanged, what data is touched, what rollout risks
  • a client's or stakeholder's material → weight [INTERVIEW]/[DOCUMENT]; follow up on constraints, integrations, and asks that conflict with each other
  • another product's own documentation → weight [BENCHMARK], which supports what that product does and never that we need it
  • this project's own settled records — a past change, DESIGN.md, an archived decision → weight [DOCUMENT]; follow up on what was already decided and shouldn't be relitigated
  • a bare internal idea → weight [ASSUMPTION]; follow up on the alternatives, the assumption to test, and what would send you back

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 76 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 5ae12395f818

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dx-distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository dikamilo/dx-workflow (8 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,602 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-25.

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