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🧬 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

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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

🧑‍💼 colleague	💞 relationship	🌟 celebrity
Coworkers · mentors · teammates · up/downstream partners	Exes · partners · parents · friends · close family	Public figures · creators · public voices · fictional characters
Builds a Work Skill + Persona from material-derived technical standards, workflows, expression, and workplace behavior. Supports Lark / DingTalk / Slack collection.	Organizes material-derived expression patterns, emotional triggers, conflict patterns, and repair patterns into a reusable Persona Skill.	Ships with a six-dimension research toolchain (subtitles → transcript cleanup → research merge → quality check) for organizing observable decisions, expression, and mental models.

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

Source	Messages	Docs / Wiki	Spreadsheets	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
𝕏 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

Input: ByteDance L2-1 backend engineer, INTJ, blame-shifter, ByteDance-style

User            ❯ Can you review this API design?

colleague.skill ❯ Hold on — what's the impact? You haven't explained the context.
                  (after reading) N+1 query, fix it. Use the standard
                  {code, message, data} response format. That's the spec,
                  don't ask why.

User            ❯ This bug was introduced by you, right?

colleague.skill ❯ Does the timeline match? That feature touched multiple places,
                  there were other changes too.

💞 relationship — distilling someone you have a crush on

Upload half a year of chat logs + "sensitive, quiet but stubborn, will actually reply seriously when it matters"

User               ❯ Did you think about me today?

relationship.skill ❯ ...I did, a little bit. Why are you asking?

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🔧 Features

🧱 Generated Skill Structure

Distilly's current creator uses Persona as the universal base, with family-specific modules layered on top:

Family	Persona Content	Additional Modules
🧑‍💼 colleague	6-layer personality: hard rules → identity → expression → decisions → interpersonal → Correction	➕ Work Skill: scope, workflow, output preferences, experience knowledge base
💞 relationship	Expression DNA · emotional triggers · conflict pattern · repair pattern	—
🌟 celebrity	Mental models · decision heuristics · expression DNA · external-evaluation contrast	➕ Six-dimension research dossier (works / interviews / decisions / timeline...)

Execution: Receive task → Persona selects material-derived preferences and tone → Additional modules fill in execution detail → Produce a source-grounded response

🧬 Evolution

• 📥 Append files → auto-analyze delta → merge into relevant sections, never overwrite existing conclusions
• 💬 Conversation correction → say "they wouldn't do that, they'd be xxx" → writes to the Correction layer, takes effect immediately
• 🕰️ Version control → auto-archive on every update, rollback to any previous version
• 🔬 Celebrity research pipeline → subtitles → transcript cleanup → six-dimension research → quality check

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⚠️ Notes

Source material quality = Person Profile quality — and quality sources differ across families:

Family	Source priority (high → low)
🧑‍💼 colleague	Their own long-form writing (design docs / review comments) › decision-making replies › casual group chat
💞 relationship	Complete chat history › letters / social posts / diaries › third-party descriptions
🌟 celebrity	First-person books / blogs / long interviews › decision records (launches, commits, Q&A) › verified first-person short-form posts › third-party commentary

• colleague Lark-compatible auto-collection: requires adding the App bot to relevant group chats
• relationship: longer time spans are better; material covering both conflict and repair is ideal
• celebrity: avoid feeding only second-hand interpretations
• This is still a demo version — please file issues if you find bugs!

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📄 Technical Report

COLLEAGUE.SKILL: Automated AI Skill Generation via Expert Knowledge Distillation (arXiv · arXiv PDF)

This is the paper for COLLEAGUE.SKILL / colleague-skill, Distilly's predecessor. It covers the Work Skill + Persona two-layer architecture, multi-source data collection, and Skill generation mechanics — the theoretical foundation for today's colleague family. Separate papers on the relationship / celebrity family extensions are planned.

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📝 Citation

If you use Distilly or COLLEAGUE.SKILL in your research or applications, please cite the technical report:

@misc{zhou2026colleagueskill,
  title        = {COLLEAGUE.SKILL: Automated AI Skill Generation via Expert Knowledge Distillation},
  author       = {Tianyi Zhou and Dongrui Liu and Leitao Yuan and Jing Shao and Xia Hu},
  year         = {2026},
  eprint       = {2605.31264},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.AI},
  url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31264}
}

You can also use the machine-readable citation metadata in CITATION.cff.

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⭐ Star History

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