Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slamb2k/mad-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/distilWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/distil)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/distil"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/distil/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/distil"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/distil.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 10 findings, up to medium
These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →
- medium Agent Snooping · line 96 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 215 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 96 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 97 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium MCP Rug Pull · line 98 npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
- medium Agent Snooping · line 97 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 217 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 98 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Agent Snooping · line 218 Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
- medium Rogue Agent · line 184 Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00079 | $0.03234 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.01617 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00647 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00323 |
Grade A, and why
distil 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 334 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Distil - Design Variation Generator
When this skill is invoked, IMMEDIATELY output the banner below before doing anything else.
Pick ONE tagline at random — vary your choice each time.
CRITICAL: Reproduce the banner EXACTLY character-for-character, including the diagonal / glyph before the name.
{tagline}
/$$ /$$$$$$$ /$$$$$$ /$$$$$$ /$$$$$$$$ /$$$$$$ /$$
/$$/| $$__ $$|_ $$_/ /$$__ $$|__ $$__/|_ $$_/| $$
/$$/ | $$ \ $$ | $$ | $$ \__/ | $$ | $$ | $$
/$$/ | $$ | $$ | $$ | $$$$$$ | $$ | $$ | $$
/$$/ | $$ | $$ | $$ \____ $$ | $$ | $$ | $$
/$$/ | $$ | $$ | $$ /$$ \ $$ | $$ | $$ | $$
/$$/ | $$$$$$$/ /$$$$$$| $$$$$$/ | $$ /$$$$$$| $$$$$$$$
|__/ |_______/ |______/ \______/ |__/ |______/|________/
Taglines:
- 🔥 Heating up the column...
- 🧪 Fractioning the design space!
- 💎 Condensing pure creativity!
- 🔬 Separating signal from noise!
- ⚗️ Extracting the essence!
- 🔄 Refining through iteration!
- ✨ Distilling N variations of brilliance!
- 🎨 From crude concept to pure design!
Output Formatting
After the banner, display parsed input:
┌─ Input ────────────────────────────────────────
│ {Field}: {value}
│ Flags: {parsed flags or "none"}
└────────────────────────────────────────────────
Pre-flight results:
── Pre-flight ───────────────────────────────────
✅ {dep} {version or "found"}
⚠️ {dep} not found → {fallback detail}
❌ {dep} missing → stopping
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
Stage/phase headers: ━━ {N} · {Name} ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Status icons: ✅ done · ❌ failed · ⚠️ degraded · ⏳ working · ⏭️ skipped
Generate multiple unique, creative web interface designs for any website or web application. The primary agent acts as a thin orchestrator — all heavy reading and file creation is delegated to subagents to protect the primary context window.
What ships with it
5 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.
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.
- 10d ago First seen · 334 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A 8a1af562a6af
distil is a skill published in the GitHub repository slamb2k/mad-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 3,234 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.
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