Agent skill

Alive People

Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Alive People

skills CLI

$ npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-people --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people .claude/skills/alive-people && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "alive-people" agent skill from https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people into .claude/skills/alive-people/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "alive-people", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-people --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people .agents/skills/alive-people && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "alive-people" agent skill from https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people into .agents/skills/alive-people/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "alive-people", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-people --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people .cursor/skills/alive-people && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "alive-people" agent skill from https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people into .cursor/skills/alive-people/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "alive-people", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git --path hermes/cron-templates/alive-people

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-people --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people .gemini/skills/alive-people && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "alive-people" agent skill from https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people into .gemini/skills/alive-people/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "alive-people", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-people

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people .github/skills/alive-people && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "alive-people" agent skill from https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people into .github/skills/alive-people/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "alive-people", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-people --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people .opencode/skills/alive-people && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "alive-people" agent skill from https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/tree/main/hermes/cron-templates/alive-people into .opencode/skills/alive-people/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "alive-people", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: alive-people
GitHub stars: 130
Token cost: ~412 tokens
SKILL.md length: 122 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 19
Repo updated: Oct 2, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts

Works in 3 steps: Scan People Walnuts → Identify Stale Contacts → Cross-Reference Mentions
Tasks that involve Scheduled and recurring tasks
SKILL.md covers Process, Output and Rules
Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Alive People is an agent skill from alivecontext/alive. Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts

Its SKILL.md is about 410 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Scheduled and recurring tasks. The repository describes itself as: Personal Context Manager for Claude Code. Your life in walnuts. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

Tasks that involve Scheduled and recurring tasks

Example prompts

“/alive-people”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

Scan People Walnuts
Identify Stale Contacts
Cross-Reference Mentions

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit fc74320. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are bash).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Alive People loads about 412 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 19 tokens; SKILL.md has 122 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~19
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~412

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from alivecontext/alive at commit fc74320, republished under its MIT licence (© alivecontext). 122 words, ~412 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/alive-people/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: alive-people
description: Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts
version: 1.0.0
author: ALIVE Context System
license: MIT
toolsets: terminal, file

People Check

Cross-reference people mentions across the world. Nudge about stale contacts.

Process

1. Scan People Walnuts

bash

find "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/02_Life/people" -name "key.md" -path "*/_kernel/*" 2>/dev/null

For each person, read _kernel/now.json or _kernel/key.md for last updated date.

2. Identify Stale Contacts

People walnuts not updated in 14+ days for close contacts (inner circle), 30+ days for professional/orbit:

People check -- [date]

Worth reaching out?
  [[person]] -- [role] -- last context [N] days ago
  [[person]] -- [role] -- last context [N] days ago

Recent people activity:
  [[person]] -- mentioned in [walnut] [N] days ago
  [[person]] -- new stash item routed [N] days ago

3. Cross-Reference Mentions

Search recent log entries (last 7 days) for [[person]] wikilinks:

bash

grep -r "\[\[" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/_kernel/log.md 2>/dev/null | head -20

Flag people mentioned in logs but without recent person walnut updates.

Output

If no stale contacts and no unrouted people context: [SILENT]

Rules

People don't get health signals like walnuts -- just "last updated" with nudges
Only nudge for close contacts (inner circle) past 2 weeks
Professional contacts only nudged past 30 days
This is a gentle reminder, not a task list

Files

Just SKILL.md in hermes/cron-templates/alive-people of alivecontext/alive.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fc74320

Compare with similar skills

Alive People next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Alive People compared with similar skills
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Cron Opsczl9707/build-your-own-openclaw	1.9k	—	~593	Automated safety check: Pass	MIT	3 mo ago
X Bookmarkssharbelxyz/x-bookmarks	289	—	~2k	Automated safety check: Notes	None	7 mo ago
Wp Wpcli And OpsAutomattic/agent-skills	211	2 repos	~988	Automated safety check: Pass	None	8 mo ago

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Questions about Alive People

What does Alive People do?

Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts. Alive People is an agent skill from alivecontext/alive.

When should I use Alive People?

Alive People fits situations like: tasks that involve Scheduled and recurring tasks.

How do I install Alive People in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (hermes/cron-templates/alive-people in alivecontext/alive) into .claude/skills/alive-people in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Alive People in Codex?

Run `npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (hermes/cron-templates/alive-people in alivecontext/alive) into .agents/skills/alive-people in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Alive People in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-people -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/alive-people, .gemini/skills/alive-people, .github/skills/alive-people and .opencode/skills/alive-people in your project.

What does Alive People need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Alive People is instructions for the agent only.

Does Alive People access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Alive People safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Alive People use?

Alive People is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Alive People use?

About 412 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Alive People?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Alive People: Schedule (TinyAGI/tinyagi, 3.6k stars), Send User Message (TinyAGI/tinyagi, 3.6k stars), Cron Ops (czl9707/build-your-own-openclaw, 1.9k stars) and X Bookmarks (sharbelxyz/x-bookmarks, 289 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Alive People?

alivecontext (a GitHub organization) maintains it in alivecontext/alive, which has 130 GitHub stars. The repository holds 19 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 2, 2026.

Source: alivecontext/alive on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Alive People

Install Alive People

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

People Check

Process

1. Scan People Walnuts

2. Identify Stale Contacts

3. Cross-Reference Mentions

Output

Rules

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

Schedule

Send User Message

Cron Ops

X Bookmarks

Wp Wpcli And Ops

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Questions about Alive People

Install Alive People

Facts

At a glance

What it does

When your agent uses it

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

People Check

Process

1. Scan People Walnuts

2. Identify Stale Contacts

3. Cross-Reference Mentions

Output

Rules

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

More from alivecontext/alive

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Questions about Alive People