The operating system for your context.
You're not just chatting with AI — you're building with it. ALIVE gives Claude persistent memory across sessions. Your decisions, tasks, insights — they survive context resets.
1. Install the plugin
claude plugin marketplace add SuperSystemsAdmin/alive-context
claude plugin install alive@alive-local
2. Restart Claude Code (plugins need a fresh session to load)
3. Create your ALIVE folder
Pick a spot that syncs across devices:
- iCloud:
~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/alive - Dropbox:
~/Dropbox/alive - Local:
~/aliveor~/Documents/alive
Create the folder however you like — Finder, terminal, whatever works.
4. Open Claude Code in that folder
Either:
- Right-click the folder → "New Terminal at Folder" → type
claude - Or in terminal:
cd /path/to/your/alive && claude
5. Run setup
/alive:onboarding
6. Start working
/alive:work
That's it. Your AI now has persistent memory.
| Letter | Domain | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| A | 01_Archive/ | Inactive items, preserved |
| L | 02_Life/ | Personal — plans, people, patterns |
| I | 03_Inputs/ | Incoming context, triage |
| V | 04_Ventures/ | Businesses with revenue intent |
| E | 05_Experiments/ | Testing grounds |
Life first, always. Ventures and experiments are expressions of life.
Every venture, experiment, and life area has _brain/, _working/, and _references/:
04_Ventures/mycompany/
├── _brain/
│ ├── status.md # Unit summary — state of play, key people, priorities
│ ├── tasks.md # What needs doing
│ ├── changelog.md # What happened + decisions
│ └── insights.md # Unit-scoped domain knowledge
├── _working/ # Drafts in progress
└── _references/ # Reference materials and source documents
Claude reads these files to understand your context. Updates them as you work. Everything persists.
| Skill | When to Use |
|---|---|
/alive:daily |
"Start my day" — morning dashboard across everything |
/alive:work |
"Let's work on X" — loads context, starts session |
/alive:save |
"We're done" — logs progress, cleans up |
/alive:new |
"Create a venture/experiment" — scaffolds structure |
/alive:capture |
"Here's some context" — capture and route to ALIVE |
/alive:digest |
"Process my inputs" — triages incoming context |
/alive:recall |
"What did we decide about X?" — searches history |
/alive:archive |
"Done with X" — moves to archive |
/alive:sweep |
"Clean up" — audits for stale context |
/alive:migrate |
"Import these files" — bulk import into ALIVE |
/alive:revive |
"Pick up where I left off" — resume a past session |
/alive:upgrade |
"Update system" — sync to latest version |
/alive:onboarding |
"Get started" — first-time setup wizard |
/alive:help |
"How does X work?" — contextual guidance |
Join 500+ operators building with AI: skool.com/aliveoperators
- Templates for every business type
- Live Q&A and support
- Courses on terminal mastery
- Case studies from real operators
- Life first, always — Life is the foundation, not a category
- File-based everything — Portable, grep-able, yours
- Zero-context documentation — Anyone can understand with no prior knowledge
- Don't confabulate — Query before answering, read before assuming
- Show the work — Make retrieval visible, build trust
- Community: skool.com/aliveoperators
- Issues: github.com/SuperSystemsAdmin/alive-context
MIT License