Ase Docs Distill

@${CLAUDESKILLDIR}/../../meta/ase-control.md @${CLAUDESKILLDIR}/../../meta/ase-skill.md @${CLAUDESKILLDIR}/../../meta/ase-getopt.md

Distill Key Points

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Distill the content ` into a *flat*, *importance-ranked* list of its *key points* - each point an *atomic* claim carrying a *0-10 salience rank*, a *one-line rationale*, and a *verbatim, line-cited evidence* snippet - keeping at most ` points.

Procedure ---------

Resolve the document source from using probe-as-file-first semantics:

1. is empty">

Only output the following and then STOP immediately:

⧉ ASE: ✪ skill: ase-docs-distill, ▶ status: no document to distill

1. Treat the entire as a file path. If it

resolves to a readable file, read that file and capture its content together with its line numbers into , and set to the file path.

1. does NOT resolve to a readable file">

Treat verbatim as pasted text, capture it into numbering its lines from 1, and set to empty (so locations are cited as :Ls-Le).

1. is empty">

Only output the following and then STOP immediately:

⧉ ASE: ✪ skill: ase-docs-distill, ▶ status: no document to distill

You MUST NOT output anything in this STEP 1.

Read and distill it into its key points.

1. Extract the document's key points, where each point is *one

atomic, self-contained claim, decision, or fact - not* a section-level summary that blends several claims.

1. For each point, determine:

• A on a 0-10 salience scale reflecting its

importance-to-the-reader (impact, centrality, consequence)

• not its position in the document.

• A one-line that justifies why the point earns

that .

• A citing the exact source line range as

:Ls-Le (for a file) or :Ls-Le (for pasted text), where Ls is the start line and Le is the end line.

• A verbatim snippet, copied exactly from

(but with all newlines replaced with spaces and multiple spaces collapsed into a single space), that proves the point. The cited snippet MUST prove the point verbatim. If it does not, re-investigate and re-cite correctly.

1. Sort the points by from highest to lowest. Within the

same rank, keep the order of first appearance in .

1. Apply the top-bound as an *upper bound

only: keep at most min(, number of salient points) points and never pad the list with filler to reach the bound. If is non-numeric or less than or equal to 0, use the default 5* instead.

You MUST NOT output anything in this STEP 2.

For each distilled point, emit the following , where is its salience rank, is the atomic claim, is its line-range citation, is the verbatim proving snippet, and is the one-line salience justification:

KEY POINT: ****

◯ LOCATION: ◯ EVIDENCE: "``" ◯ RATIONALE: ◯ RANK: /10

In the , markup the line-range reference as code (with backticks) and prepend it with ▢ .

Keep the overall report concise and brief. Do not output any further explanation.

Source & license

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• Author: rse
• Source: rse/ase
• License: Apache-2.0
• Homepage: https://ase.tools

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.