alive:create-walnut SKILL.md skillA
alive:create-walnut 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:create-walnut@v3.0.0Pins v3.0.0 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/create-walnut/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v3.0.0, committed May 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 3, 2026
- Size
- 15,210 bytes
- Repository stars
- 131
- License
- MIT
Something new is emerging. A venture, an experiment, a person entering the orbit, a life area getting serious. It needs its own walnut — its own identity, history, and future. Scaffolds the full structure, maps existing context sources, and optionally migrates files across.
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
# Create
Scaffold a new walnut — any type, any ALIVE domain. Understand it first, map where its context lives, then scaffold. Optionally bring in existing content (Step 7 — only if the human has files to migrate).
Not a setup wizard (that's `world/setup.md` — first-time only). Not opening an existing walnut (that's `alive:load-context`).
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## Template Locations
The squirrel MUST read these templates before writing — not reconstruct from memory. Templates live relative to the plugin install path.
```
templates/walnut/key.md → _kernel/key.md
templates/walnut/key-codebase.md → _kernel/key.md (codebase variant, Step 2b)
templates/walnut/log.md → _kernel/log.md
templates/walnut/insights.md → _kernel/insights.md
```
### Placeholders
**Used in `key.md` and `key-codebase.md`:**
| Placeholder | Source |
|------------|--------|
| `{{type}}` | Step 1 selection |
| `{{goal}}` | Extracted from Step 2 free text |
| `{{name}}` | Kebab-case slug derived from Step 2 |
| `{{date}}` | Current ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
| `{{description}}` | The human's free text from Step 2, lightly cleaned |
**Additional placeholders in `key-codebase.md` (Step 2b only):**
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alivecontext/alive/alive:create-walnut@sha256:086ac797ec9e39a4The line at the top of this page pins the label v3.0.0, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_vicgmjya3mcap2nx)
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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.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v3.0.0 latest | 2026-05-11 | 5023f6d | 15,210 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.0 | 2026-04-20 | 4b94201 | 15,275 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.0 | 2026-04-20 | c1cdbd6 | 15,119 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.0 | 2026-04-03 | d63eb8e | 14,133 B | A | view · diff |
| v3.0.0 | 2026-04-03 | eac03d3 | 14,137 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 (15210 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_vicgmjya3mcap2nx GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alivecontext/alive/alive:create-walnut GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/086ac797ec9e39a4ca8b89ea47502e3b1deeaaa9ea6b741c1bd504da1022ed39
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.