alive:system-upgrade SKILL.md skillA
alive:system-upgrade 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:system-upgrade@git:20260511.5023f6dPins git:20260511.5023f6d 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/system-upgrade/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20260511.5023f6d, committed May 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 3, 2026
- Size
- 26,851 bytes
- Repository stars
- 131
- License
- MIT
Upgrade ALIVE to the current version. Handles v1/v2/v3.x source states, multi-surface aware (alive-mcp / Hermes / Codex), retroactive version detection, partial-failure resume, dry-run previews, and rollback inspection.
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
# System Upgrade Upgrade an ALIVE world from any prior version to the current target. The skill is a thin operator-facing surface; the work happens in the `system_upgrade/` Python package shipped with the plugin (orchestrator + 13 locked phases). Stdlib-only, no PyYAML/ruamel. If you are reading this on the old monolithic skill (476 lines of inline upgrade logic), that file has been retired in favour of the orchestrator. This file documents what the operator and skill agent need to know to drive it. --- ## When It Fires - The human runs `/alive:system-upgrade` (any version of the world — v1, v2, v3.0, v3.1, v3.2). - The session-new hook detects a legacy structure and surfaces the upgrade prompt. - The human says "upgrade my world", "migrate to the new version", "update alive". - The human asks to inspect or restore an earlier upgrade tarball (`--rollback`). --- ## Tool version vs world version Two distinct version concepts; the orchestrator never confuses them. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alivecontext/alive/alive:system-upgrade@sha256:0927f045b75cbd42The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260511.5023f6d, 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 May 11, 2026, about one every 9 days.
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| git:20260511.5023f6d latest | 2026-05-11 | 5023f6d | 26,851 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260422.a18add9 | 2026-04-22 | a18add9 | 23,932 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260403.d63eb8e | 2026-04-03 | d63eb8e | 23,932 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260403.fd51ae6 | 2026-04-03 | fd51ae6 | 23,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260403.eac03d3 | 2026-04-03 | eac03d3 | 23,119 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 (26851 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_m6cxw2c3cajf4lax GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alivecontext/alive/alive:system-upgrade GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0927f045b75cbd4200933677c6c56e11942402177d42806eefc29b5af5158e9e
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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.