How do I install the Wisdom Distill skill?

Run npx skillmds@latest add tonydzi/wisdom-distill in your terminal (requires Node.js), paste this page's agent-chat prompt into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP-connected agent, or download the SKILL.md file and copy it into your agent's skills directory.

Is Wisdom Distill safe to use?

This skill has not completed SkillMD's automated safety review yet. SkillMD never runs a skill's scripts for you; review the SKILL.md before installing.

Which AI agents work with Wisdom Distill?

This skill is tagged as working with Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex. SKILL.md is an open format, so most agents that read a skills directory can load it too.

Is Wisdom Distill free to use?

Yes. Installing skills from SkillMD is free. This skill is licensed under MIT.

Who published Wisdom Distill?

tonydzi (@tonydzi) published this skill. Their other Agent Skills are listed on their SkillMD profile.

Wisdom Distill by tonydzi — Agent Skill

Name: Wisdom Distill
Author: tonydzi

Wisdom Distill

Squeeze three to five durable lessons out of the owner's own words from the last seven days into a weekly note in the insights folder. The LLM reads only a collector's digest, never the raw corpus. Triggers: "/wisdom-distill", "distill my week", "weekly wisdom".

tonydzi 5a20458 3.2 KB Updated Sep 17, 2026

File contents

/wisdom-distill — the wisdom of the week

🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator, end with an "In plain words" recap in their language.

Run (deterministic first — 0 tokens)

python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/wisdom_week_gather.py" (or ... 14 for a 14-day window) -> notes marked origin: anton/#anton-original inside the window (date field, mtime as fallback), excluding _originals/_imports/_Dashboards, capped at 60 x 500 chars -> $IMPORTS_ROOT/_wisdom_week_digest.md. The LLM reads only the digest, never the corpus.

Distill (top model — synthesis, not grunt work)

From the digest, pull 3-5 durable lessons of the week (each must survive a month; "how the owner now thinks/decides"). Format: the lesson in one line in the owner's voice · Source: [[note-a]], [[note-b]] (2+ = stronger) · What it changes: which decision it will show up in. Drop transient items, other people's ideas, the self-evident. Thin week (<3) — say so plainly, do not invent.

Save (backup-first: vault_backup.py)

Note: $OBSIDIAN_VAULT/03-Insights/insight-weekly-wisdom-YYYY-Www.md Frontmatter: title, date, type: insight, origin: anton, authored_by: hybrid, tags: [insight, weekly-wisdom, anton-original], summary. Link the sources (no-orphan-notes-rule); if beliefs are touched, link the matching belief-* note. NO 🧒 block inside the note.

Scheduled twin

Cron wisdom-distill-weekly: Sunday 23:20 Lisbon (routines-run-at-night). Gatherer -> distillation (top-model subagent) -> note -> announcement in the fleet log chat (bus_ping.py --post). The manual twin is this skill. Single source of truth = wisdom_week_gather.py.

Active-brain map A-E: item D · /five-hard (monthly) · /precedent (decisions) · recurring_scan.py (the whole corpus) · vault-backup-rule · model-routing (synthesis -> top model).

Like this skill? It is one of 100 in second-brain-starter-kit: the second brain we built for ourselves and run every day at Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Install the whole set with npx skills add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit. Everything is open source and free, so take what you need.

Flagships worth a look on their own: secondop-panel (a second opinion from a panel of external models), claude-memory-tidy (stop your agent's memory from rotting), telegram-mcp-kit (your own Telegram over MCP in about 15 minutes).

Author: Anton Dziatkovskii, Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Telegram @tonydzi - WhatsApp +1 341 222 9178 - X @Tony_Stef_

Engineers: want to test-drive this setup? Message me. I hand out free starter seeds to engineers who test and report back, and custom skill requests are welcome.

---name: wisdom-distilldescription: Squeeze three to five durable lessons out of the owner's own words from the last seven days into a weekly note in the insights folder. The LLM reads only a collector's digest, never the raw corpus. Triggers: "/wisdom-distill", "distill my week", "weekly wisdom".license: MIT---# /wisdom-distill — the wisdom of the week> 🧒 When reporting to a non-technical operator, end with an "In plain words" recap in their language.## Run (deterministic first — 0 tokens)`python "$IMPORTS_ROOT/wisdom_week_gather.py"` (or `... 14` for a 14-day window) ->notes marked `origin: anton`/`#anton-original` inside the window (date field, mtime as fallback), excluding`_originals/_imports/_Dashboards`, capped at 60 x 500 chars -> `$IMPORTS_ROOT/_wisdom_week_digest.md`.**The LLM reads only the digest, never the corpus.**## Distill (top model — synthesis, not grunt work)From the digest, pull 3-5 durable lessons of the week (each must survive a month; "how the owner now thinks/decides").Format: the lesson in one line in the owner's voice · Source: [[note-a]], [[note-b]] (2+ = stronger) ·What it changes: which decision it will show up in. Drop transient items, other people's ideas, the self-evident.Thin week (<3) — say so plainly, do not invent.## Save (backup-first: vault_backup.py)Note: $OBSIDIAN_VAULT/03-Insights/insight-weekly-wisdom-YYYY-Www.mdFrontmatter: title, date, type: insight, origin: anton, authored_by: hybrid,tags: [insight, weekly-wisdom, anton-original], summary. Link the sources(no-orphan-notes-rule); if beliefs are touched, link the matching belief-* note. NO 🧒 block inside the note.## Scheduled twinCron `wisdom-distill-weekly`: Sunday 23:20 Lisbon (routines-run-at-night). Gatherer ->distillation (top-model subagent) -> note -> announcement in the fleet log chat (bus_ping.py --post).The manual twin is this skill. Single source of truth = wisdom_week_gather.py.## RelatedActive-brain map A-E: item D · /five-hard (monthly) · /precedent (decisions) · recurring_scan.py(the whole corpus) · vault-backup-rule · model-routing (synthesis -> top model).------**Like this skill?** It is one of 100 in [second-brain-starter-kit](https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit): the second brain we built for ourselves and run every day at Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Install the whole set with `npx skills add tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit`. Everything is open source and free, so take what you need.Flagships worth a look on their own: [secondop-panel](https://github.com/tonydzi/secondop-panel) (a second opinion from a panel of external models), [claude-memory-tidy](https://github.com/tonydzi/claude-memory-tidy) (stop your agent's memory from rotting), [telegram-mcp-kit](https://github.com/tonydzi/telegram-mcp-kit) (your own Telegram over MCP in about 15 minutes).Author: **Anton Dziatkovskii**, Palo Alto AI Research Lab. Telegram [@tonydzi](https://t.me/tonydzi) - WhatsApp [+1 341 222 9178](https://wa.me/13412229178) - X [@Tony_Stef_](https://x.com/Tony_Stef_)**Engineers: want to test-drive this setup?** Message me. I hand out free starter seeds to engineers who test and report back, and custom skill requests are welcome.

Frequently asked questions