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.
npx skills add alivecontext/alive --skill alive-inboxgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivecontext/aliveWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-inbox)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-inbox"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-inbox/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-inbox"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-inbox.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00018 | $0.00396 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00158 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00079 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00040 |
Grade A, and why
alive-inbox scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Inbox Scanner
Check 03_Inbox/ for files that need routing.
Process
- List all files in
03_Inbox/:
find "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/03_Inbox" -type f -not -name ".*" -not -name "*.DS_Store" 2>/dev/null
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For each file:
- Read the first 500 chars to understand content
- Suggest a destination walnut based on content
- Classify type (document, transcript, screenshot, data)
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Present grouped by suggested destination:
Inbox: [N] files
[walnut-name]:
1. [filename] -- [type] -- [one-line description]
2. [filename] -- [type] -- [one-line description]
[other-walnut]:
3. [filename] -- [type] -- [one-line description]
Unsure:
4. [filename] -- [content preview]
Reply with numbers to approve routing. "all" to approve all. "skip" to leave for later.
Rules
- If inbox is empty, output
[SILENT] - Don't move files -- just suggest. Wait for approval.
- Files older than 48 hours get flagged: "This has been in inbox for [N] days"
- Max 10 files per notification. If more, show count and suggest
/alive-capture
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 0c6cd6fed5d5
alive-inbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivecontext/alive (130 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 396 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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