alive

Name: alive Review
Item: alive
Rating: 3.4
Author: Aaron Matthews

Skill Development Usable

Works inClaude Code

Usable Scanned — metadata only

Maintains continuity across fragmented Claude sessions by persisting project context, decisions, and code state—reducing ramp-up time and preventing loss of …

A personal context manager for Claude Code that persists your working context across sessions as plain files on your machine. Agents read them at session start and save what matters at session end, so decisions, research, people, and domain knowledge get structure instead of dying with the session. Context is organized into 'walnuts' — ventures, experiments, people, or life areas — each with files for identity, current state, and standing knowledge, so you don't re-explain yourself each time.

Ask Claude to summarize your recent project decisions and architectural choices for onboarding new team members.
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Automate context switching by retrieving your previous work history and technical decisions when resuming past projects.

125 starsMIT (commercial OK)FreeQuick setup

Usable rating — This tool is functional but has notable gaps. Review the evaluation notes below before deploying.

Why it matters

Maintains continuity across fragmented Claude sessions by persisting project context, decisions, and code state—reducing ramp-up time and preventing loss of architectural decisions or progress.

Best for

Solo developers and small teams using Claude for iterative code projects requiring session-to-session state preservation.

Works in

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Source

https://github.com/alivecontext/alive

By alivecontext

How to Get It

Option 1: Claude Desktop App (Code Mode)Click the + button next to the prompt box → Plugins → Add plugin. Search and click Install. Skills work in Claude Code only.

Option 2: Paste into Claude CodeCopy the command below and paste it into your conversation. Claude will install it.

Command

claude plugin install alive@alivecontext

Tip: Paste this into a Claude Code conversation. Verify command matches your Claude Code version.

First thing to try

After installing, paste this into Claude:

Summarize my recent project decisions and architectural choices for onboarding new team members

CostFree

Trust Signals Auto-scanned

Stars125Contributors8Last updated2026-08-07LicenseMIT (OK for commercial use)Known CVEsNone foundSources: GitHub Advisory Database + OSV.dev · Scanned 2026-08-17 · scanner v1

Community Pulse New

No community discussions found yet. This doesn't mean the tool isn't good — it may be new or serve a niche use case.

Reviewer notes

Auto-scanned review. These are observations, not a security certification.

catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 125 GitHub stars; 8 contributors; last commit 11d ago; license MIT.

Things to check

Scanned, not hands-on tested — this entry was auto-scanned from public metadata (GitHub metrics, license, security flags). No reviewer has run it, and no tool-specific limitations have been documented yet.

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Evaluation Scores

Evaluation

Ease of Use

3/5

Versatility

3/5

Reliability

4/5

Security

4/5

Overall score3.40 / 5.00 UsableEvaluatedAug 2026

catalog_hygiene stale-eval refresh: Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 125 GitHub stars; 8 contributors; last commit 11d ago; license MIT.

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