distill

distill is a skill for Claude Code from hiphapis/loopcraft. It costs 80 tokens per session (609 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A practice for recording verified, reusable rules after debugging failures, fixing test or type-check errors, or confirming an important finding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it immediately after resolving a gate failure, a verifier-graded failure, or a confirmed bug cause, while excluding unrelated failures.
Why use it?
It prevents the same cause from being rediscovered and keeps lessons from debugging available for later work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the loopcraft plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it immediately after resolving a gate failure, a verifier-graded failure, or a confirmed bug cause, while excluding unrelated failures.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install loopcraft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for distill

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 609 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 unknown 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 $0.00080 $0.00609
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00244
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00061

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0aae222e7d72, 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.

skills/distill/SKILL.md · 52 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 52 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 0aae222e7d72

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distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository hiphapis/loopcraft (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 609 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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