Distillery: A Claude Code Plugin for Persistent Team Context

Distillery is a plugin for Claude Code that creates shared, persistent context for development teams. It addresses the problem of teams losing knowledge when debugging sessions end or when decisions made months ago become difficult to find.
Core Commands
/distill— Capture decisions and reasoning mid-session. The whole team can search these later./recall— Find anything anyone on the team has captured using natural language search./pour— Synthesize coherent answers from scattered context across people and sessions. For example, asking "How does our auth system work?" pulls from multiple people's captured decisions and produces a narrative with citations.
Ambient Intelligence Features
The plugin includes ambient intelligence capabilities:
/watch— Point at GitHub repos, RSS feeds, or subreddits. It polls on a schedule and scores every item for relevance against your team's existing context using embedding similarity./radar— Provides a synthesized digest of what matters based on what the system learns your team cares about from captured context.
Team Deployment
Distillery uses a shared server with GitHub OAuth, allowing everyone to connect their Claude Code to the same knowledge base. Context captured by one person becomes searchable by everyone, creating compounding knowledge where each team member's captures improve everyone else's searches and syntheses.
Version 0.2.0 Updates
The latest release includes:
- Hybrid search (BM25 + vector with Reciprocal Rank Fusion)
- Auth audit logging
- UV support
The project is available on GitHub with a blog post explaining the development process.
📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI
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