distilly

🧬 Distilly

Formerly: Colleague Skill / colleague-skill.

Distill a person's experience, judgment, voice, and ways of working into a reusable Person Profile for AI agents and compatible bots.

Messages · documents · interviews · public sources → Distilly → Person Profile → Agent / Bot

🧑‍💼  Your colleague quit, your mentor graduated, your teammate transferred — taking their whole playbook and context with them? 💞  Your family, old friends, partner drifting apart — and you want to hold on to the way it felt to be with them? 🌟  Your favorite author, idol, thinker you'll never meet — but you want to know what they'd say about your question?

✨ One project, many kinds of people.

Distilly is the person-modeling layer for agents. It turns the materials you provide into a portable, source-grounded Person Profile built from observable experience, decision patterns, expression, and ways of working; it does not claim to clone the person behind them.

Colleagues · partners · family · old friends · idols · public figures · fictional characters — even yourself

Source material + your description → a source-grounded Person Profile → your Agent or compatible Bot

A Person Profile is the reusable output. The current release packages each profile as an Agent Skill so supported hosts can install and invoke it. The canonical creator Skill is named distilly; install it in a distilly directory. The former name above remains for search continuity and project history.

🆕 What Distilly does · 📦 Data Sources · ⚡ Install · 🚀 Usage · ✨ Demo · 📝 Citation · 💬 Discord

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🎉 2026.08.13 Milestone — the project has passed 20K ⭐!

Massive thanks to everyone who starred — we'll keep shipping, keep distilling.

🧬 2026.08.24 Update — The creator is now named Distilly end to end and documents native local Skill discovery for Claude Code, Hermes, OpenClaw, Codex, DeepSeek Harness, Pi, Grok Build, and OpenCode. Grok Bot is listed separately as a saved-Skill workflow preview.

📝 2026.06.01 Update — The COLLEAGUE.SKILL technical report is now available. The most rewarding part was not simply publishing a paper, but seeing the community grow the gallery to 215 skills contributed by 165 people, with more than 100,000 stars across the skill cards. The paper's Acknowledgements explicitly recognize every community contributor.

🗺️ 2026.04.13 — The Distilly Roadmap is live! What began as Colleague Skill is growing beyond colleagues: distill people into Skills that Agents can reuse. 👉 Full Roadmap · 💬 Discord

🌐 2026.04.07 — Community gallery is live! Any skill / meta-skill can drive traffic directly to your own GitHub repo. No middleman. 👉 titanwings.github.io/colleague-skill-site

Created by @titanwings

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🆕 What Distilly does today

1️⃣ From Colleague Skill to Distilly

The project is no longer limited to the colleague scenario. Its distilly creator builds source-grounded Person Profiles for three person families with one workflow, then packages each profile as an Agent Skill.

2️⃣ Three character families

Each family has its own source-collection strategy, analysis dimensions, and Person Profile structure.

3️⃣ More Agent hosts

The old version only ran in Claude Code. Distilly now supports native local Skill discovery across eight agent hosts.

Grok Bot preview: Grok Bot supports saved/private Skills, but its official docs do not describe direct local SKILL.md imports. Distilly's workflow can be migrated manually into a saved Skill; direct repo installation is not yet verified.

Each generated Person Profile is packaged as an Agent Skill and can be installed into any supported host.

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📦 Supported Data Sources

Logo	Source	Messages	Docs / Wiki	Notes
	Lark (auto)	✅ API	✅	Just enter a name, fully automatic
	DingTalk (auto)	⚠️ Browser	✅	DingTalk API doesn't support message history
	Slack (auto)	✅ API	—	Requires admin to install Bot; free plan limited to 90 days
	Public X posts	✅ API	—	Optional, bounded celebrity research candidates through metered third-party service Xquik
	WeChat chat history	✅ SQLite	—	Export first with WeChatMsg or PyWxDump
📄	PDF / Images / Screenshots	—	✅	Manual upload
	Lark JSON export	✅	✅	Manual upload
✉️	Email .eml / .mbox	✅	—	Manual upload
📝	Markdown / direct paste	✅	✅	Manual input

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⚡ Install

🤖 For Agents

Open any supported local Agent host and send:

Install Distilly from https://github.com/titanwings/distilly, then verify that this host can discover it.

The Agent installs Distilly as a Skill named distilly in the correct host directory.

👤 For Humans

Clone Distilly into the Skills directory used by your host:

git clone https://github.com/titanwings/distilly <DISTILLY_SKILL_DIR>

Host paths, migration, Windows, generated-profile installation, and credential setup are in the Install Guide.

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🚀 Usage

In your Agent, say:

Use Distilly to create a Person Profile for <person>.

Then:

1. Choose colleague, relationship, or celebrity.
2. Add a description or source material. Every field is optional.
3. Review the result and let Distilly generate the profile.

The result is packaged as an Agent Skill named {character}-{slug}. For the optional celebrity research pipeline and advanced tools, see the Install Guide.

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✨ Demo

One from each family.

🌟 celebrity — distilling Andrej Karpathy

Six-dimension research: works · interviews · decisions · expression DNA · external evaluations · timeline Case adapted from community work alchaincyf/karpathy-skill

User            ❯ Everyone's talking about Agents now — what do you think the 2026 AI Agent looks like?

celebrity.skill ❯ Everyone's doing demos, nobody's doing eval.
                  The Agent bottleneck was never model intelligence — it's scaffolding:
                  a strict evaluation harness, fine-grained error replay,
                  controllable tool-calling budgets, clean failure-mode analysis.
                  Most products are still stuck at "wrap an API + a few tools + a system prompt."
                  That's a demo, not an agent.
                  In 2026 I'm not betting on the strongest model — I'm betting on the best
                  scaffolding and the strictest eval.

🧑‍💼 colleague — distilling a ByteDance L2-1 backend