Quick start

Try an existing brain (30 seconds)

Before building your own, browse one that’s already published:

1. Go to the Demo Brain
2. Click a source’s root thesis — read the book’s argument in one paragraph
3. Follow [[wikilinks]] to drill into clusters, then arguments, then evidence
4. Open any entity page — its backlinks show every claim that mentions it

Entity pages are question-answering hubs

Want to know what the brain says about “customer validation”? Find the entity page. Its backlinks are the answer — organized by source, ready to read.

Create your own brain (15 minutes)

1. Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/distillary/distillary/main/install.sh | bash

One command. Clones the repo, installs 3 Python deps, creates the brain folders.

2. Open in Claude Code

cd ~/distillary && claude

3. Add a source

Add ~/Downloads/my-book.epub to my brain

No need to copy files. Point to any EPUB, PDF, or TXT on your machine. Claude runs 14 agents in parallel. ~15 minutes for a 300-page book.

4. Explore

Open brain/ in Obsidian. Start at _index.md. Click through the pyramid. Check entity pages for cross-references. Read _suggestions.md for what to explore next.

5. Add more sources

Add books/another-book.epub to my brain

Claude auto-bridges the new source to everything already there.

6. Publish

Publish my brain

Static website with graph view, search, and agent API.

What’s next

• How it works — the pipeline in detail
• Architecture — agents, skills, utilities
• Publishing — deploy and share