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

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People Check

Cross-reference people mentions across the world. Nudge about stale contacts.

Process

1. Scan People Walnuts

find "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT/02_Life/people" -name "key.md" -path "*/_kernel/*" 2>/dev/null

For each person, read _kernel/now.json or _kernel/key.md for last updated date.

2. Identify Stale Contacts

People walnuts not updated in 14+ days for close contacts (inner circle), 30+ days for professional/orbit:

People check -- [date]

Worth reaching out?
  [[person]] -- [role] -- last context [N] days ago
  [[person]] -- [role] -- last context [N] days ago

Recent people activity:
  [[person]] -- mentioned in [walnut] [N] days ago
  [[person]] -- new stash item routed [N] days ago

3. Cross-Reference Mentions

Search recent log entries (last 7 days) for [[person]] wikilinks:

grep -r "\[\[" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/_kernel/log.md 2>/dev/null | head -20

Flag people mentioned in logs but without recent person walnut updates.

Output

If no stale contacts and no unrouted people context: [SILENT]

Rules

  • People don't get health signals like walnuts -- just "last updated" with nudges
  • Only nudge for close contacts (inner circle) past 2 weeks
  • Professional contacts only nudged past 30 days
  • This is a gentle reminder, not a task list