Distill

September 21, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

distill in action

Distill is a lightweight coding agent harness and TUI, built to get far more done with far fewer tokens.

It works with Grok and Codex subscriptions, and with any model that speaks the OpenAI-compatible protocol.

Steps:

  1. Download distill.
  2. Login with openrouter.
  3. Login with your subscription.
  4. Save money.

Install

Mac / Linux

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelfaj/distill/main/install.sh | sh  
export PATH="$HOME/.local/share/distill/bin:$PATH"                                  
distill --version

Windows

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samuelfaj/distill/main/install.ps1 | iex        
$bin = "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\distill\bin"; [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('Path', "$bin;" + [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('Path', 'User'), 'User') 
distill --version

Upgrade

For an installation made with the release installer:

distill update

Choose your models

Open Model tiers on the home screen, click change beside the current model, or enter /tiers. You can edit each tier in that screen.

TierPurposePicker
Reasoning modelHandles the main conversation, difficult reasoning, and code changes./model or /tiers reasoning
Worker modelTakes suitable calls in the same conversation when a lighter model can handle them. Optional./worker-model or /tiers worker
Utility modelHandles bounded tasks such as extraction, summaries, and compression./utility-model or /tiers utility

Each picker helps you choose a model and its effort. auto is available and is the default. You can also supply the selection directly:

/model gpt-6-astra auto
/worker-model gpt-5.6-luna auto
/utility-model openrouter-qwen37 auto

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