alive:session-history SKILL.md skillA
alive:session-history from alivecontext/alive is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alivecontext/alive/alive:session-history@git:20260422.a18add9Pins git:20260422.a18add9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alivecontext/alive
- Path
plugins/alive/skills/session-history/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260422.a18add9, committed Apr 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 3, 2026
- Size
- 13,699 bytes
- Repository stars
- 131
- License
- MIT
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# History Session timeline and recent activity. The system's short-term memory. Not a search (that's find — searches content across walnuts). History searches SESSIONS — what squirrels did, what was discussed, what was decided. For deep context extraction from source material, use `alive:mine-for-context`. --- ## How It Works Two tiers of data. Always start with tier 1. Go to tier 2 via revive. **Tier 1 — Squirrel Entries** (`.alive/_squirrels/*.yaml`, with fallback to per-walnut `_kernel/_squirrels/*.yaml`) Structured, fast, indexed. Session ID, walnut, model, timestamps, stash items, transcript path. Every squirrel leaves one of these. **Tier 2 — Session Transcripts** (path stored in squirrel YAML `transcript:`) The full conversation. Every message, every agent response, every tool call, every result. This is the deep context — the actual thinking, the back-and-forth, the nuance that didn't make it into the stash. --- ## Modes ### Browse (no args) Show recent sessions across all walnuts. **Default filter:** only show sessions with `saves > 0` or non-empty stash. Cap at 10 results. Add a summary line: "N empty shells not shown." Use `history --shells` to include them. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alivecontext/alive/alive:session-history@sha256:78f3375a9cacff6dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260422.a18add9, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Apr 3, 2026 and Apr 22, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260422.a18add9 latest | 2026-04-22 | a18add9 | 13,699 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260420.407e0c4 | 2026-04-20 | 407e0c4 | 13,626 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260420.730d884 | 2026-04-20 | 730d884 | 13,305 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260420.9ec5551 | 2026-04-20 | 9ec5551 | 13,240 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260403.acc9cda | 2026-04-03 | acc9cda | 13,315 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13699 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
alivecontext/alive · 131 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6cnvlssevv5hcmzx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alivecontext/alive/alive:session-history GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/78f3375a9cacff6de035ba658406e04823a51e8c59fbbf858bbecef80c797cc6
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.