Agent skill

Alive World

by alivecontext in alivecontext/alive

Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention

MITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Alive World

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install alivecontext/alive alive-world --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/hermes-skills/alive-world .claude/skills/alive-world && 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/

Facts

Skill name
alive-world
GitHub stars
130
Token cost
~418 tokens
SKILL.md length
78 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
19
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Gather State, Display, Skip Archive and Skip Inbox
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Alive World is an agent skill from alivecontext/alive. Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention

Its SKILL.md is about 420 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. The repository describes itself as: Personal Context Manager for Claude Code. Your life in walnuts. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Productivity & Automation work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/alive-world”

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.

    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 World loads about 418 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 25 tokens; SKILL.md has 78 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~25
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~418

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). 78 words, ~418 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/alive-world/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
alive-world
description
Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention
version
1.0.0
author
ALIVE Context System
license
MIT
toolsets
terminal, file
triggers
show my world, what am I working on, world view, dashboard, what's active

World View

Show the full world grouped by ALIVE domain.

Gather State

For each walnut, read _kernel/now.json (or fall back to _kernel/key.md frontmatter). Extract:

  • name, goal, phase, rhythm, updated date

Calculate health from rhythm + updated:

  • active -- within rhythm
  • quiet -- 1-2x past rhythm
  • waiting -- 2x+ past rhythm

Display

ALIVE World -- [N] walnuts

Life (02_Life/)
  [name]        [health]    [goal excerpt]
  [name]        [health]    [goal excerpt]

Ventures (04_Ventures/)
  [name]        active      [goal excerpt]
  [name]        quiet       [goal excerpt]  (12 days)
  [name]        waiting     [goal excerpt]  (34 days)

Experiments (05_Experiments/)
  [name]        [health]    [goal excerpt]

Needs Attention:
  - [walnut] has been waiting 34 days (rhythm: weekly)
  - [walnut] has 3 urgent tasks
  - [walnut] has unrouted stash items

What to do?
  1. Load a walnut (name or number)
  2. Tidy (clean up stale walnuts)
  3. Find (search across world)
  4. History (recent sessions)
  5. Map (context graph)

Skip Archive

Never show 01_Archive walnuts in the dashboard. They're graduated, not active.

Skip Inbox

03_Inbox is a buffer. Show unrouted file count if any exist, but don't list individual files.

© alivecontext, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in hermes/hermes-skills/alive-world of alivecontext/alive.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit fc74320

Compare with similar skills

Alive World 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.

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Process Inboxtelegramdesktop/tdesktop33k2 repos~4.5kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0
Perform Tasktelegramdesktop/tdesktop33k2 repos~3kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0
Brave Searchbadlogic/pi-skills2.6k6 repos~592Automated safety check: PassMIT
Continuetelegramdesktop/tdesktop33k2 repos~9.4kAutomated safety check: PassGPL-3.0

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Questions about Alive World

What does Alive World do?

Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention. Alive World is an agent skill from alivecontext/alive.

When should I use Alive World?

Alive World fits situations like: productivity & Automation work in your project.

How do I install Alive World in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Alive World in Codex?

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

Can I use Alive World 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-world -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-world, .gemini/skills/alive-world, .github/skills/alive-world and .opencode/skills/alive-world in your project.

What does Alive World need to run?

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

Does Alive World 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 World 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 World use?

Alive World 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 World use?

About 418 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k 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 World?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Alive World: Agent Browser (quran/quran.com-frontend-next, 1.9k stars), Process Inbox (telegramdesktop/tdesktop, 33k stars), Perform Task (telegramdesktop/tdesktop, 33k stars) and Brave Search (badlogic/pi-skills, 2.6k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Alive World?

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.