Distillery

The context brain for a fleet of unattended coding agents. This repo is the source of truth for the context files, directives, and skills that drive igor (the harness) and the operator's local harnesses -- extracted out of the harness so the same brain can pour into more than one glass. Context is treated as first-class, versioned, validated artifacts that agents consume, rather than prose that rots inside whatever repo it started in.

How it works

• skills/<name>/SKILL.md -- one distillable unit: YAML frontmatter (name, description, consumers, source, extracted) followed by the content. Extra files ride in skills/<name>/files/.
• bin/still -- the assembler. still validate enforces the format contract deterministically; still build refuses to ship anything unvalidated and writes dist/manifest.json; still list shows the shelf.
• Proofs -- versioned releases consumers pin. Consumers never read the working tree; between proofs the tree is a draft.

The shelf

Run bin/still list. Current stock: the unattended worker's operating contract, the shadow reviewer's directive, per-surface directives (voice, feedback triage, site work, sports digest, /now), the AI-writing-tells catalog, the per-repo AGENTS.md dossier spec, the worker permission profile, the operator's engineering doctrine, and the ticket skeleton every task spec is written against.

Consuming

Pin a proof, read dist/manifest.json, take the skills whose consumers list matches your surface (igor-surface for harness prompt fragments, generic for anything). Wiring igor to consume proofs instead of its own copies is tracked on igor's side.

Testing

make test

Runs bin/test-still.sh, which exercises every validation rule by deliberately breaking it -- a validator that has never failed has never been tested -- and finishes by validating the real tree.

License

GPL v3 -- see LICENSE.