Distillery¶
Team Knowledge, Distilled
Distillery is a team knowledge base accessed through Claude Code skills. It refines raw information from working sessions, meetings, bookmarks, and conversations into concentrated, searchable knowledge — stored as vector embeddings in DuckDB and retrieved through natural language.
Runs locally over stdio or as a hosted HTTP service with GitHub OAuth for team access.
Who is Distillery for?¶
- Developers and teams who use Claude Code and want to capture, organize, and retrieve knowledge without leaving their workflow.
- Team leads and operators who want a shared knowledge base their team can access through a hosted MCP server with GitHub authentication.
- Anyone who wants to stop losing context — capture decisions, insights, and references as they happen, and retrieve them through natural language when you need them.
Skills¶
Distillery provides 10 Claude Code slash commands:
| Skill | Purpose | Example |
|---|---|---|
/distill |
Capture session knowledge with dedup detection | /distill "We decided to use DuckDB for local storage" |
/recall |
Semantic search with provenance | /recall distributed caching strategies |
/pour |
Multi-entry synthesis with citations | /pour how does our auth system work? |
/bookmark |
Store URLs with auto-generated summaries | /bookmark https://example.com/article #caching |
/minutes |
Meeting notes with append updates | /minutes --update standup-2026-03-22 |
/classify |
Classify entries and triage review queue | /classify --inbox |
/watch |
Manage monitored feed sources | /watch add github:duckdb/duckdb |
/radar |
Ambient feed digest with source suggestions | /radar --days 7 |
/tune |
Adjust feed relevance thresholds | /tune --digest 0.40 |
/setup |
Onboarding wizard for MCP connectivity and config | /setup |
Quick Start¶
The fastest way to get started:
# Install the plugin (all 10 skills + MCP connection)
claude plugin marketplace add norrietaylor/distillery
claude plugin install distillery
Then run the onboarding wizard in Claude Code:
This verifies MCP connectivity, detects your transport, and configures auto-poll for ambient intelligence.
Demo Server
The plugin defaults to the hosted instance at distillery-mcp.fly.dev, which is a demo server for evaluation only. Do not store sensitive or confidential data. For production use, deploy your own instance or use local setup.
For other installation options, see Plugin Install or Local Setup.
License¶
Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE for details.