alive-inbox

alive-inbox is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alivecontext/alive. It costs 18 tokens per session (396 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An inbox review tool for a personal knowledge system. It examines files in an inbox, describes their content, and suggests which section, called a walnut, should receive each file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review up to ten unsorted inbox files at a time, classify them, flag older items, and approve or skip suggested destinations.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of sorting incoming documents, screenshots, transcripts, and data. It leaves the files unmoved until you approve the suggested routing.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

agentmods badge for alive-inbox

README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 396 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 $0.00018 $0.00396
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00040

Measured 6d ago against content hash 0c6cd6fed5d5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

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 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/cron-templates/alive-inbox/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Inbox Scanner

Check 03_Inbox/ for files that need routing.

Process

  1. List all files in 03_Inbox/:
find "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/03_Inbox" -type f -not -name ".*" -not -name "*.DS_Store" 2>/dev/null
  1. For each file:

    • Read the first 500 chars to understand content
    • Suggest a destination walnut based on content
    • Classify type (document, transcript, screenshot, data)
  2. 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
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 · 57 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 0c6cd6fed5d5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alive-inbox is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivecontext/alive (127 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 396 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.