alive:settings SKILL.md skillA
alive:settings 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:settings@git:20260424.ac0e561Pins git:20260424.ac0e561 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/settings/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260424.ac0e561, committed Apr 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 28, 2026
- Size
- 5,785 bytes
- Repository stars
- 131
- License
- MIT
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.
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
# Tune Adjust how the ALIVE Context System works. Two levels: world-wide preferences and per-walnut config. For creating new skills, rules, and hooks — that's `alive:build-extensions`. --- ## The Spectrum | Level | What it is | Example | Where it lives | |-------|-----------|---------|---------------| | **Preference** | Toggle on/off | "Turn off sparks" | `.alive/preferences.yaml` | | **Config** | Walnut-level setting | "Nova Station should have a technical voice" | `_kernel/config.yaml` in the walnut | **The line:** Toggle = preference. Setting = config. Process or capability = `alive:build-extensions`. ## How It Routes When the human says "I want X": 1. **Is it a toggle?** → Write to `preferences.yaml`. Takes effect immediately. 2. **Is it walnut-specific?** → Write YAML config to that walnut's `_kernel/config.yaml`. Different walnuts, different settings. 3. **Is it a repeatable process or new capability?** → Route to `alive:build-extensions`. If unclear, ask once: ``` ╭─ 🐿️ that sounds like a preference (toggle). │ Add to preferences.yaml? │ Or is this walnut-specific config? ╰─ ``` --- ## Preferences …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alivecontext/alive/alive:settings@sha256:416b374042656b6bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260424.ac0e561, 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 3 versions of this file, between Mar 28, 2026 and Apr 24, 2026, about one every 13 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260424.ac0e561 latest | 2026-04-24 | ac0e561 | 5,785 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260420.4b94201 | 2026-04-20 | 4b94201 | 5,698 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260328.7f7bd27 | 2026-03-28 | 7f7bd27 | 5,427 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 (5785 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_6fugfecmsy5xnbjt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alivecontext/alive/alive:settings GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/416b374042656b6b9d945dafdf9348a1155bb9ed7e52bb0a5fff063a7fd970b8
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.