/distill

Surface patterns in accumulated knowledge. Propose what to keep, promote, compact, or dismiss. The human decides.

Distill is the complement to /salvage: salvage extracts learning from a single session; distill curates the corpus those extractions build over time. Without distill, metis accumulates but never compounds.

When to Use

Invoke /distill when:

• After multiple sessions - The corpus has grown and hasn't been reviewed
• Before a new phase - Want to know what's actually settled before moving forward
• Search results feel noisy - RNA search returns too much loosely-related content
• Similar learnings keep appearing - /salvage keeps extracting the same insights (the meta-signal)
• End of a successful session - Even good sessions produce learnings worth capturing before context is lost

Use distill (not /salvage) when the session went well. /salvage is for stopping because things went wrong. Distill is for pausing because things went right — or simply finished — and learnings are worth capturing before context is lost.

Do not use when: You're in the middle of execution. Distill is a pause point, not a mid-flight activity.