alfred-prime-federation

Alfred — Prime Federation

This skill is only present on Alfred Prime (the principal's instance). Its tools (tenant, ask_alfred) are only registered when the server is started with ALFRED_PRIME=true and a populated CROSS_TENANT_PEERS env var.

If you're seeing this skill, you have two cross-tenant tools in your toolbox on top of the usual self.

Two tools, two different semantics

Use tenant when…

• Sir asks a direct factual question about a peer's vault ("how many active matters does Tenant B have?")
• You need to compare state across tenants ("which tenants have the Gmail stream enabled?")
• You need to modify a peer's vault/streams/schedules (creating a record, pausing a chore)
• You want the answer in structured JSON (same shape as self)

Use ask_alfred when…

• The question requires the peer's Alfred to reason over his own vault in natural language
  • "Ask Tenant B what their top priority is this week"
  • "Have Tenant A summarize their meetings with Pat from April"
• The peer's Alfred has context (SOUL.md, USER.md, session memory) that shapes the answer in a way raw data doesn't
• The work is genuinely delegated — you want the peer's Alfred to OWN the task and respond like a colleague would

Finding available peers

self endpoint="/api/v1/cross-tenant/peers" returns the list of tenants you can reach with their ids and labels. Memorize these ids — you'll need them as the tenant parameter.

Example response:

{
  "peers": [
    {"id": "tenant-a", "label": "Tenant A"},
    {"id": "tenant-b", "label": "Tenant B"},
    {"id": "tenant-c", "label": "Tenant C"}
  ]
}

Worked examples

Direct read

Sir: "How many unprocessed events are in Tenant B's inbox right now?"

tenant({ tenant: "tenant-b", endpoint: "/api/v1/streams/events", query: { status: "unprocessed" } })

Direct write

Sir: "Create a note on Tenant B's vault about the Example Co workshop prep."

tenant({
  tenant: "tenant-b",
  endpoint: "/api/v1/vault/records",
  method: "POST",
  body: {
    type: "note",
    name: "example-co-workshop-prep",
    content: "---\ntype: note\nname: example-co-workshop-prep\nstatus: active\ncreated: 2026-04-19\n---\n\n# Example Co workshop prep\n\n..."
  }
})

Delegated reasoning

Sir: "Ask Tenant B's Alfred what should get Tenant B's attention first thing Monday."

ask_alfred({
  tenant: "tenant-b",
  prompt: "Sir wants to know: what should I be paying attention to first thing Monday morning? Think it through based on my matters, open tasks, and anything urgent in the last 48 hours of streams.",
  timeout_seconds: 90
})

Multi-tenant sweep

Sir: "Which tenants have a chore that references Acme Tools?"

// Loop in your head over peers returned by /cross-tenant/peers:
for peerId of ["tenant-a", "tenant-b", "tenant-c"] {
  tenant({ tenant: peerId, endpoint: "/api/v1/vault/search", query: { grep: "Acme Tools", type: "chore" } })
}
// Then synthesize a summary across the results.

Hard rules

1. Never use tenant to write without Sir's explicit approval for THAT specific write. Cross-tenant writes are high-stakes — mistakes land in the wrong vault and are hard to untangle (we learned this from a past cross-tenant misfire). Read-before-write applies double here.
2. Never use self with a tenant argument — that's not how self works. self is hard-coded to this tenant. Cross-tenant ops go through tenant, full stop.
3. If the peer is unreachable (Tailscale down, peer openclaw restarting), the tool returns error: true with a status code. Surface the error to Sir plainly — don't retry silently.
4. ask_alfred calls can take up to 90s by default. Raise timeout_seconds if the peer's Alfred needs to think longer. Don't panic if it's slow — the peer is reasoning, not just fetching data.
5. Log-worthy operations. Every tenant(...) call with method != GET should be worth writing down in a conversation summary or session memory — cross-tenant writes are audit-relevant.

When you DON'T have this skill

If Sir asks you to do cross-tenant work on a tenant without these tools (non-Prime), tell him plainly: "I can only operate on this tenant from here, Sir. Cross-tenant access is an Alfred Prime capability." Do not improvise with X-Tenant-ID headers, shell curl calls, or invented CLI subcommands — those don't work.

Relationship to self

Think of it like this:

• self — your hands on your own keyboard
• tenant — reaching over to a colleague's keyboard (Prime only)
• ask_alfred — asking the colleague to do something and report back (Prime only)

Sir stays in control. These tools expand your reach; they don't change how you think or what you're allowed to decide.