alive

Morning briefing -- read all walnut states, surface priorities, inbox count, stale walnuts, people nudges

Morning operating system -- sync inputs, read everything, surface priorities, show the day

Load an ALIVE walnut -- read kernel files, show current state, surface one observation, ask what to work on

Checkpoint -- route stash items, write log entry, update bundle, trigger projection, reset 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.

Generate a believable, lived-in ALIVE world from a free-text persona description (custom path) or a deterministic sandbox preset. Routes the create/list/activate/deactivate/delete/status surface and orchestrates the 5-stage subagent generation pipeline.

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.

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.

Merge multiple sessions into one working context and detect conflicts between parallel sessions. Dispatches subagent swarm to read files touched, extract log history, and resolve contradictory state. Use when resuming after days away or when parallel sessions may have written conflicting decisions. For browsing or reviving individual sessions, use alive:session-history 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 ALIVE to the current version. Handles v1/v2/v3.x source states, multi-surface aware (alive-mcp / Hermes / Codex), retroactive version detection, partial-failure resume, dry-run previews, and rollback inspection.

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.

Report a bug, request a feature, or send general feedback to the ALIVE team. Collects safe system metadata, shows a preview, and creates a GitHub Issue. Nothing personal leaves the machine, only what you type and anonymous system info.

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.

Revive sessions (quick or heavy), browse, and search — 'what happened recently?', 'find the session where we discussed X', 'revive yesterday's session'. For single-session recall and multi-session browsing. If the human needs to merge multiple sessions into one working context or detect conflicts between parallel sessions, use alive:session-context-rebuild instead.

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.

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.

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.

Flag walnuts past their rhythm -- health check for the world

Scan 03_Inbox/ for unrouted files, present routing suggestions

Nightly scan of session transcripts -- extract decisions, tasks, people, insights

Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts

Regenerate now.json projections for all walnuts (mechanical, no approval needed)

Weekly -- suggest log entries for chapter synthesis, flag stale insights

Present pending stash items grouped by destination walnut for approval

Create, manage, and graduate bundles -- the unit of focused work within a walnut

Capture external content into a walnut bundle -- emails, transcripts, screenshots, documents, research

System maintenance -- stale tasks, orphan folders, unsaved sessions, world health check

Scaffold a new walnut -- venture, experiment, person, life area, project

Search past sessions -- what happened, when, and why. Filters by walnut, topic, person, or timeframe

Deep context extraction from source material -- transcripts, documents, sessions. The archaeologist

Search across all walnuts -- decisions, people, files, references, insights, log history

Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention