alive

Create new skills, rules, and hooks for your world. Checks plugin compatibility, writes to the human's space (not plugin cache), validates against the system, and suggests when repeated work should become a skill. For marketplace-ready plugins, hands off to the contributor plugin.

Create, share, and graduate bundles — the unit of focused work within a walnut. Manages the full bundle lifecycle from creation through sharing to graduation.

Use when external content arrives in the session — emails, transcripts, screenshots, documents, files, or in-session research worth keeping. Also use when there's nothing obvious to capture — the skill checks 03_Inbox/ for unrouted files and enters inbox scan mode. Stores raw content, routes to bundles, extracts tasks and insights into the stash.

Something new is emerging. A venture, an experiment, a person entering the orbit, a life area getting serious. It needs its own walnut — its own identity, history, and future. Scaffolds the full structure, maps existing context sources, and optionally migrates files across.

The human mentions a walnut to work on, asks about a specific venture/experiment/project, or wants to check status — not just explicit 'load X'. Load the brief pack (3 files), resolve the people involved, check the active bundle — then surface one observation and ask what to work on. Context loads in tiers: walnut and people are automatic, bundle depth is offered.

Deep context extraction from source material. Creates reference bundles, builds extraction plans, tracks what's been extracted, and discovers new targets — people, subjects, patterns, connections. The archaeologist that turns raw sources into structured knowledge. Can be invoked by alive:session-history for targeted session mining.

Render an interactive map of your world. Generates the world index from all walnut and bundle frontmatter, then produces a force-directed graph showing connections between walnuts, people, bundles, and tags. Opens in the browser.

The human wants to checkpoint. Or: the stash has grown heavy — 5+ items, 30+ minutes, a natural pause in the work. The squirrel doesn't decide when to save. It surfaces the need and lets the human pull the trigger. Runs the full save protocol: confirms stash, writes log, updates state, generates projections, dispatches, resets.

The human needs something that exists somewhere in the world but they don't know where. A decision, a person, a file, a reference — it's been captured, they just can't find it. Searches decisions, people, files, references, insights, and log history across all walnuts in priority order.

Rebuild a rich context window from multiple previous sessions. Dispatches a swarm of subagents to mine squirrel entries, read actual files touched, extract log history, and merge conflicting session states into one coherent working context. Essential for resuming after time away or merging parallel sessions.

Revive sessions (quick or heavy) to reconstruct full context from transcripts. The human needs context from previous sessions — what happened, when, and why. Searches squirrel YAMLs, recent stash items, and recent logs. The light version of session recall — 'what happened recently?' Filters by walnut, topic, person, or timeframe. Can suggest escalation to alive:mine-for-context when it finds unmined sessions with rich context.

The human wants to adjust how the system behaves — not what it contains, but how it feels. Voice, rhythm, preferences, walnut-level config, full permissions toggleable, named squirrel config, action logging toggle. The system adapting to them. Routes to preferences.yaml or walnut config.yaml depending on scope. For creating new skills, rules, or hooks, route to alive:build-extensions instead.

The world feels messy. Stale tasks, orphan folders, v2 remnants, unsaved sessions — entropy is accumulating and needs to be addressed before it compounds. Scans across all walnuts, then surfaces issues one at a time.

Upgrade from any previous version of the ALIVE Context System. Mines existing structure, detects legacy patterns, handles YAML edge cases, audits sync scripts, and executes a scripted upgrade with rollback.

The human doesn't know what to work on, or wants to see everything at once. They need the big picture — what's active, what's stale, what needs attention. Renders a live world view grouped by ALIVE domain, then routes to open, tidy, find, history, or map.

13 hooks across 5 events