What it is
Distill is a terminal coding harness by Samuel Fajreldines. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands, and keeps the conversation in your terminal. Version 2.0.0 supports Grok, ChatGPT, OpenRouter, and local OpenAI-compatible model servers.
Getting started
From the README:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelfaj/distill/main/install.sh | sh
export PATH="$HOME/.local/share/distill/bin:$PATH"
distill --versionWhere the decision sits
distill runs its own weights or its own runtime rather than calling a hosted API, so its decisions do not depend on a vendor being up or on a key being funded. The trade is that the model is now yours to keep current.
How active it is
Created 2026-03-06, last pushed 2026-10-30, 774 stars and 53 forks when we read it on 2026-11-02. Everything in this category is weeks old at most, so a stale push date means something different here than it would on a mature project. Check the repository before you depend on it.
Find out what your data actually supports
We turn your historical decisions into a frozen test set, then tell you which model, which threshold, and how much of it you can safely automate.