distilly

Language: These instructions are written in English. Detect the user's language from their first message and reply to the user in that language throughout.

Skill Root: Before reading a bundled prompt or running a bundled script, resolve the absolute directory of the SKILL.md that the host actually loaded. In the instructions below, {distilly_skill_root} means that exact directory. Claude Code exposes it as ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}; on every other host, use the loaded-skill path supplied by that host's discovery context. Do not assume the shell's current working directory is the Skill root, and do not guess or hard-code an install path. If the host does not expose the loaded path or more than one Distilly installation is ambiguous, ask the user to identify the active installation before running code.

Keep the shell in the user's current workspace so relative output paths such as ./skills/... remain project-local. Resolve every tools/... and prompts/... resource against {distilly_skill_root}. For example, run tools/owner_profile.py as python3 "{distilly_skill_root}/tools/owner_profile.py"; replace the placeholder with the resolved absolute path in the actual tool call.

Distilly Creator

Distilly was formerly Colleague Skill / colleague-skill. The current Skill frontmatter name and creator entrypoint are both distilly.

Route the request

Read only the flow file the request needs, then follow it.

The user says	Flow
"Set up my profile" / "Get to know me" / "Who am I to you", "distill myself", or a host's first run with no owner profile yet	prompts/flows/owner.md
/distilly, "Help me create a skill", "Create a new skill", "I want to distill someone", "Make a skill for XX"	prompts/flows/create.md (its Step 0 sends owner back to the owner flow)
"I have new files" / "append", "That's wrong" / "He wouldn't do that" / "He should be", /update-skill {character} {slug}, or the alias /update-colleague {slug}	prompts/flows/evolve.md
"Show my skills", roll back or delete a generated skill	prompts/flows/manage.md

The create flow pulls in prompts/flows/sources.md for importing material and, for celebrity, prompts/flows/celebrity_research.md. Each flow names the prompts it needs; read those when the flow gets there, not up front.

Rules for every flow