Distilly
Distilly is a skill creator that turns a person's messages, documents, and public sources into a reusable profile for AI agents.
What it is good for
- Keeping a departed colleague's work knowledge available to a team
- Turning chat history and documents into a reusable working profile
- Creating a profile of a public figure's views from their public material
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Skill or plugin
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, DeepSeek Harness, Lark
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 26,298
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Distilly free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Distilly?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Distilly work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenClaw, DeepSeek Harness, and Lark.
- What is Distilly good for?
- Keeping a departed colleague's work knowledge available to a team, turning chat history and documents into a reusable working profile, and creating a profile of a public figure's views from their public material.
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