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.
npx agentmods add skills/resciencelab/tryskills/distillnpx skills add ReScienceLab/TrySkills --skill distillgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ReScienceLab/TrySkillsWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00049 | $0.01350 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00024 | $0.00675 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00270 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00135 |
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 2d 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.
This is a copy
75% identical to distill — 27 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 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
Invoke /impeccable — it contains design principles, anti-patterns, and the Context Gathering Protocol. Follow the protocol before proceeding — if no design context exists yet, you MUST run /impeccable teach first.
Assess Current State
Analyze what makes the design feel complex or cluttered:
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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
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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 directly to clarify what you cannot infer.
CRITICAL: Simplicity is not about removing features - it's about removing obstacles between users and their goals. Every element should justify its existence.
Plan Simplification
Create a ruthless editing strategy:
- Core purpose: What's the ONE thing this should accomplish?
- Essential elements: What's truly necessary to achieve that purpose?
- Progressive disclosure: What can be hidden until needed?
- Consolidation opportunities: What can be combined or integrated?
IMPORTANT: Simplification is hard. It requires saying no to good ideas to make room for great execution. Be ruthless.
Simplify the Design
Systematically remove complexity across these dimensions:
Information Architecture
- Reduce scope: Remove secondary actions, optional features, redundant information
- Progressive disclosure: Hide complexity behind clear entry points (accordions, modals, step-through flows)
- Combine related actions: Merge similar buttons, consolidate forms, group related content
- Clear hierarchy: ONE primary action, few secondary actions, everything else tertiary or hidden
- Remove redundancy: If it's said elsewhere, don't repeat it here
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 122 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 2aa5d9b86377
distill is a skill published in the GitHub repository ReScienceLab/TrySkills (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,350 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 75% identical to distill, differing in 27 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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