distill

Find essential structure and simplify explanations, concepts, models, decisions, processes, designs, and expressive work while preserving what the task requires. Use when asked to simplify, find the essence, reason from first principles, improve an abstraction, identify the governing mechanism, compare explanations, or remove unnecessary complexity. Also use when unclear objectives, inherited assumptions, repeated exceptions, or tangled dependencies obstruct substantial work in any domain. Do not invoke merely for a simple factual lookup, mechanical edit, or already clear instruction unless explicitly requested. Scale effort and output to the task.