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There's Now an AI That Extracts You Before You Leave

Your company wants to extract you before you leave. Here's what they'll actually get.

Jing Hu
Apr 19, 2026
∙ Paid

Something called “Colleague.skill“ caught fire last week.

This is an AI agent that gathers a departing colleague’s Slack, emails, and files, then generates an .md file you can directly feed to AI to do the colleague’s job as they would.

Then someone built an “Anti-Distill Skill“ to fight back: An agent to prevent yourself from being skill-ified.

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