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-searchgit 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-search)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-search/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-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alivecontext/alive/alive-search.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 | $0.00020 | $0.00511 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00204 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00102 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00051 |
Grade A, and why
alive-search scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
Search World
Find something that exists somewhere in the world.
Search Priority
- Decisions -- search
_kernel/log.mdacross all walnuts - People -- search
02_Life/people/walnut names and key.md - Files -- search filenames and bundle manifests
- Insights -- search
_kernel/insights.mdacross all walnuts - Identities -- search
_kernel/key.mdacross all walnuts
Method
Use terminal to search:
# Search logs
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/_kernel/log.md "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/*/_kernel/log.md 2>/dev/null
# Search insights
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/_kernel/insights.md "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/*/_kernel/insights.md 2>/dev/null
# Search people
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/02_Life/people/*/_kernel/key.md 2>/dev/null
# Search bundle manifests
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/context.manifest.yaml "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/*/context.manifest.yaml 2>/dev/null
Display Results
Found [N] matches for "[query]":
Logs:
[walnut] -- [matching snippet with date]
[walnut] -- [matching snippet with date]
People:
[[person-name]] -- [role, last updated]
Insights:
[walnut] -- [matching section]
Load any of these?
1. [walnut name]
2. [[person name]]
3. Search again with different terms
Skip Archive
Exclude 01_Archive from results by default. Mention if matches exist there: "Also found in archive: [walnut]".
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 · 75 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A da605d987b75
alive-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivecontext/alive (131 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 511 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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