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.windsurf/skills/impeccable/distill/SKILL.md

distill is a skill for Claude Code, Windsurf from FavioVazquez/learnship. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,457 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of distill, MIT.

A design-review guide for simplifying an interface by removing complexity that does not help the user.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify websites, apps, posters, or other designs with too many elements or competing choices.
Why use it?
It helps reduce clutter and confusion while preserving the elements that are essential to the product’s purpose. It first requires knowing the audience and their tasks.

Skill for Claude CodeWindsurf

Written for Claude Code and Windsurf: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also installed under .windsurf/.

This is FavioVazquez/learnship's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Windsurf how to work on learnship itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything learnship configures →

Part of the learnship plugin — 24 skills, 34 agents shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to FavioVazquez/learnship. 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/FavioVazquez/learnship/main/.windsurf/skills/impeccable/distill/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FavioVazquez/learnship

Made for: Claude Code, Windsurf.

Or install learnship, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills, 34 agents.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,457 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 81% 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 $0.00023 $0.01457
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00728
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00146

Measured 7d ago against content hash 469d0c860ce9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 7d 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

81% identical to distill — 26 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.

.windsurf/skills/impeccable/distill/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 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: 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: 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:

  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:

CRITICAL: Simplicity is not about removing features - it's about removing obstacles between users and their goals. Every element should justify its existence.

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. 7d ago First seen · 138 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 469d0c860ce9

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distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository FavioVazquez/learnship (59 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,457 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to distill, differing in 26 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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