alive-daily

alive-daily is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alivecontext/alive. It costs 20 tokens per session (548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A morning review routine for a file-based work system. It gathers configured inputs such as email, chat, and meeting transcripts, then reviews active projects, pending items, and unsaved sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a daily briefing, review inbox items, check project status, find urgent tasks, and identify work that may not have been saved.
Why use it?
It brings scattered updates and unfinished work into one daily list of priorities and issues needing attention.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-daily
Any agent
npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-daily
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/alive

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00020 $0.00548
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00274
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7d507edf03ec, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alive-daily scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

hermes/hermes-skills/alive-daily/SKILL.md · 90 lines

What it actually says

Daily

The morning operating system. Sync all inputs, read everything, surface what matters.

1. Sync Inputs

Run available sync scripts (if configured):

# Check which sync scripts exist
ls "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/.alive/scripts/"*-sync.* 2>/dev/null

Common syncs: Gmail, Slack, Fathom (meeting transcripts). Each writes to 03_Inbox/.

2. Check Inbox

find "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/03_Inbox" -type f -not -name ".*" 2>/dev/null | wc -l

If files exist, list them with routing suggestions.

3. Read All Active Walnuts

For each non-archive walnut, read _kernel/now.json. Extract:

  • Phase, blockers, urgent + active task lists, health signal

4. Check Unrouted Stash

cat "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/.alive/stash.json" 2>/dev/null

Present any pending items grouped by destination walnut.

5. Check Unsaved Sessions

Scan .alive/_squirrels/ for entries with saves: 0. These sessions may have lost work.

6. Surface the Day

Morning -- [date]

Priority:
  1. [walnut] -- [top urgent task]
  2. [walnut] -- [top urgent task]

Active (on rhythm):
  [walnut]     [phase]     [top urgent or active task]
  [walnut]     [phase]     [top urgent or active task]

Needs Attention:
  [walnut]     waiting     [N] days past rhythm
  [walnut]     quiet       [blocker]

People:
  [[person]]   last contact [N] days ago

Inbox: [N] unrouted files
Stash: [N] pending items

What to work on?

7. Route

User picks a walnut -> invoke /alive-load for that walnut.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 90 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 7d507edf03ec

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alive-daily is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivecontext/alive (127 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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