alive-world

alive-world is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alivecontext/alive. It costs 20 tokens per session (478 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A dashboard that lists all active walnuts, grouped into areas such as life, ventures, and experiments. It marks each one as active, quiet, or waiting based on its review schedule and last update.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for a full overview, finding walnuts, reviewing recent sessions, spotting urgent tasks, and identifying stale work.
Why use it?
It helps you see what you are working on and which areas have gone unattended without opening every folder.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for alive-world

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 478 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 $0.00020 $0.00478
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00239
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00096
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00048

Measured 5d ago against content hash cb4e3332307f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

alive-world 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 5d 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-world/SKILL.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

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.

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. 5d ago First seen · 72 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A cb4e3332307f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

alive-world is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivecontext/alive (127 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 478 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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