alive-search

Research

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

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How to use this skill

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Prompt to paste

Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/alivecontext/alive/blob/HEAD/hermes/hermes-skills/alive-search/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/alive-search, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

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Search World

Find something that exists somewhere in the world.

Search Priority

Decisions -- search _kernel/log.md across all walnuts
People -- search 02_Life/people/ walnut names and key.md
Files -- search filenames and bundle manifests
Insights -- search _kernel/insights.md across all walnuts
Identities -- search _kernel/key.md across all walnuts

Method

Use terminal to search:

# Search logs
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/_kernel/log.md "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/*/_kernel/log.md 2>/dev/null

# Search insights
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/_kernel/insights.md "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/*/_kernel/insights.md 2>/dev/null

# Search people
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/02_Life/people/*/_kernel/key.md 2>/dev/null

# Search bundle manifests
grep -rl "[query]" "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/context.manifest.yaml "$ALIVE_WORLD_ROOT"/*/*/context.manifest.yaml 2>/dev/null

Display Results

Found [N] matches for "[query]":

Logs:
  [walnut] -- [matching snippet with date]
  [walnut] -- [matching snippet with date]

People:
  [[person-name]] -- [role, last updated]

Insights:
  [walnut] -- [matching section]

Load any of these?
  1. [walnut name]
  2. [[person name]]
  3. Search again with different terms

Skip Archive

Exclude 01_Archive from results by default. Mention if matches exist there: "Also found in archive: [walnut]".