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Rewrite a piece of text down to its core message, dropping whatever is peripheral to it — the result is the text itself rewritten shorter, not a summary written about it. Use when the user explicitly asks to distil, cut to the essentials, trim the fat, or strip a passage, document, or draft down to what matters, and is willing to lose secondary detail. Do not trigger as unprompted cleanup of text the user has not asked to change; when the user wants the text shorter but every point kept, use the tighten skill instead.
npx claudepluginhub shihyuho/skills --plugin skillsHow this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/skills:distilThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
Re-examine a passage and rewrite it down to its core message. Peripheral content is dropped on purpose — distilling is lossy by design.
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Re-examine a passage and rewrite it down to its core message. Peripheral content is dropped on purpose — distilling is lossy by design.
The user identifies the target — pasted text, a file path, or a passage in this conversation. If they invoke the skill without naming one, distil the last substantial passage you wrote. Ask only if the target is genuinely ambiguous.
A verbose passage does not get tighter by editing in place. Each editing pass tends to add a caveat or a transition and remove nothing, so length compounds. Do not patch the existing wording. Work out what the passage actually says, separate the core message from what merely supports or decorates it, then re-express the core from scratch in the fewest words that still land it.
Decide what counts as peripheral yourself and cut it directly, without pausing to confirm each cut — being trusted with that judgement is the point of this skill. Peripheral means secondary examples, asides, caveats that do not change the conclusion, and background the reader does not need; the core is what the passage would be useless without.
Do not chase a percentage. Distil to what matters and stop; a fixed ratio just forces arbitrary cuts or padding.
When the rewrite is done, read the original once more and confirm the core survived and nothing kept was distorted. Adjust if so.
Give the rewritten text, then a short report: