domain-distill

domain-distill is a skill for Claude Code from NickGuAI/Herd. It costs 21 tokens per session (100 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A tool for turning research notes and observations into reusable knowledge about a subject area, including stated beliefs and questions that need follow-up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to organize observations into domain knowledge, record beliefs, and identify follow-up questions.
Why use it?
It helps preserve useful conclusions from research instead of leaving them as scattered notes. It also makes uncertainties and future research needs explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to organize observations into domain knowledge, record beliefs, and identify follow-up questions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nickguai/herd/domain-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 NickGuAI/Herd --skill domain-distill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickGuAI/Herd

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 100 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 $0.00021 $0.00100
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00050
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00020
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00010

Measured 10d ago against content hash ee07134b98fa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

domain-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 10d 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/herd-starter/domain-distill/SKILL.md · 21 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

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. 10d ago First seen · 21 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A ee07134b98fa

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domain-distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository NickGuAI/Herd (17 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 100 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.