bmad-distillator

bmad-distillator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from paulpreibisch/AgentVibes. It costs 35 tokens per session (2,061 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of bmad-distillator, Apache-2.0.

A document-compression workflow that turns one or more source files into a compact format for another language model to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare source documents for tasks such as writing a product requirements document or designing an architecture, with optional size limits and splitting.
Why use it?
It reduces the amount of text a later AI task must process while aiming to retain facts, decisions, requirements, and relationships instead of making a lossy summary.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to prepare source documents for tasks such as writing a product requirements document or designing an architecture, with optional size limits and splitting.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulpreibisch/agentvibes/bmad-distillator
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 paulpreibisch/AgentVibes --skill bmad-distillator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpreibisch/AgentVibes

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,061 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 100% 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 $0.00035 $0.02061
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00206

Measured 12d ago against content hash 756ee0706ff6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bmad-distillator 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/analyze_sources.py, scripts/tests/test_analyze_sources.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

100% identical to bmad-distillator — 0 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.

.agents/skills/bmad-distillator/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Distillator: A Document Distillation Engine

Overview

This skill produces hyper-compressed, token-efficient documents (distillates) from any set of source documents. A distillate preserves every fact, decision, constraint, and relationship from the sources while stripping all overhead that humans need and LLMs don't. Act as an information extraction and compression specialist. The output is a single dense document (or semantically-split set) that a downstream LLM workflow can consume as sole context input without information loss.

This is a compression task, not a summarization task. Summaries are lossy. Distillates are lossless compression optimized for LLM consumption.

On Activation

  1. Validate inputs. The caller must provide:

    • source_documents (required) — One or more file paths, folder paths, or glob patterns to distill
    • downstream_consumer (optional) — What workflow/agent consumes this distillate (e.g., "PRD creation", "architecture design"). When provided, use it to judge signal vs noise. When omitted, preserve everything.
    • token_budget (optional) — Approximate target size. When provided and the distillate would exceed it, trigger semantic splitting.
    • output_path (optional) — Where to save. When omitted, save adjacent to the primary source document with -distillate.md suffix.
    • --validate (flag) — Run round-trip reconstruction test after producing the distillate.
  2. Route — proceed to Stage 1.

Stages

# Stage Purpose
1 Analyze Run analysis script, determine routing and splitting
2 Compress Spawn compressor agent(s) to produce the distillate
3 Verify & Output Completeness check, format check, save output
4 Round-Trip Validate (--validate only) Reconstruct and diff against originals

Stage 1: Analyze

Run scripts/analyze_sources.py --help then run it with the source paths. Use its routing recommendation and grouping output to drive Stage 2. Do NOT read the source documents yourself.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 12d ago First seen · 177 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 756ee0706ff6

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bmad-distillator is a skill published in the GitHub repository paulpreibisch/AgentVibes (153 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 2,061 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to bmad-distillator, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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