Distill Lock: context as a build artifact with byte-identical, drift-proof, offline-verifiable output
_akpiper · x · 2026-09-23
Siddhant Khare shipped Distill Lock v0, arguing context should be a build artifact, not a prompt assembled at runtime. It freezes each step's inputs, refuses drift, emits stable context bytes, and verifies integrity offline.
Key results:
- Shuffling the same 3 inputs 100 times leaves the canonical lock bytes unchanged
- Builds from different workspace paths and repeat builds produce byte-identical portable artifacts with the same bundle digest
- Any relevant line change alters source identity, chunk identity and the final digest; tampering fails the offline verifier closed
- It's not static context: new evidence creates a new versioned build
The author notes this is deterministic context compilation, not deterministic model output, and tests used synthetic fixtures. Commenters see it as a way to stop consequential decisions from getting lost across multi-turn conversations.
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