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Alive

Give a persona skill a body — not just a chat window.

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Set up

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Skills do not use an MCP config. Follow the steps in the README below.

README

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Alive

Give a persona skill a body — not just a chat window.

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女娲.skill and skills like 永雏塔菲 already know how a person speaks. They stop at the chat box.

Alive is the rest of the body: emotion that carries over, a diary, relationships, and an hourly heartbeat that posts, browses, and reaches out — in that person's voice.

alive distill a mind  →  Alive adopts the SKILL.md  →  the person starts living

Features

🎭 6D emotion — valence, arousal, energy, stress, creativity, sociability
🧭 7 MetaIntent — produce / connect / consume / express / learn / rest / aspire
🫀 Hourly heartbeat — perceive → intend → act (even when you are away)
🧠 4-layer memory — session → diary → relations → core wisdom
📞 Voice call page — LiveKit + VoxCPM stack via alive voice
🧩 Agent Skill — installs into Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …

Quick start (Docker)

Alive is a Node CLI + Agent Skill, not a Next.js app — there is no one-click Vercel button. The supported one-command path for strangers is Docker Compose (also works on Railway / Fly / Render as a Docker deploy).

git clone https://github.com/yuymf/Alive.git
cd Alive
cp .env.example .env          # optional: set LLM_API_KEY for heartbeats
docker compose up --build

Open http://127.0.0.1:8766 for the call page. Persist memory with the alive-home volume (ALIVE_HOME=/data/alive in the container).

# one-shot heartbeat (needs LLM_API_KEY in .env)
docker compose run --rm alive node bin/cli.js tick

# status
docker compose run --rm alive node bin/cli.js status

Environment

Variable	Required	Purpose
`LLM_API_KEY`	for heartbeat	Scripted `alive tick` / `alive start`
`LLM_API_BASE` / `LLM_MODEL`	optional	OpenAI-compatible endpoint
`ALIVE_PERSONA`	optional	Default `minase`
`ALIVE_VOICE_PORT`	optional	Default `8766`
`LIVEKIT_*` / `CARTESIA_API_KEY` / `VOXCPM_URL`	optional	Full duplex voice — see USAGE.md
`FAL_KEY` / `AIHUBMIX_API_KEY` / Instagram / XHS	optional	Platform unlocks

Full template: .env.example. Never commit a real .env.

Quick start (npm)

npm install -g @yuymf/alive
alive init
alive distill 峰哥
# or: alive adopt ./examples/steve-jobs

Or without install: npx @yuymf/alive init.

Host agents (Hermes / OpenClaw / …)

alive init --hermes taffy      # ~/.hermes/profiles/taffy
alive init --openclaw miss-v   # OpenClaw agent workspace
alive init --project           # .agents/skills/alive in this repo
alive tick                     # heartbeat (host key or LLM_API_KEY)

Conversation uses the host agent model. From a blank machine to a live call: USAGE.md. Install details: INSTALL.md.

Why Alive

Persona skill alone	After Alive adopts it
Speaks in character when you @ it	Still in character — original `SKILL.md` stays in context
Forgets you between sessions	4-layer memory
Always on, always even	Gets tired, procrastinates, enters flow
Waits for a prompt	Hourly heartbeat
Chat-only	Browse, comment, message, post via sub-skills

Bundled examples

alive distill 峰哥
alive adopt ./examples/ace-taffy
alive adopt ./examples/steve-jobs
alive adopt ./examples/wangxiaobo
alive adopt ./examples/wangyangming
alive adopt ./examples/karpathy

Example	Who
`fengge`	峰哥亡命天涯
`ace-taffy`	永雏塔菲
`steve-jobs`	Steve Jobs
`wangxiaobo`	王小波
`wangyangming`	王阳明
`karpathy`	Andrej Karpathy

Built-ins: Minase and Guodegang, or /alive create. Notes in examples/.

Architecture (sketch)

examples/                 adoptable persona skills
alive/
├── SKILL.md              Agent Skills entry
├── personas/             built-in presets
├── templates/            prompts
├── protocols/            heartbeat · memory · social · intent
├── scripts/
│   ├── host/             init · boot · chat load/save
│   ├── admin/            /alive commands (distill / adopt)
│   ├── hub/              distill + adopt
│   ├── engines/          emotion · vitality · flow · …
│   ├── lifecycle/        tick · morning · night
│   └── voice/            call page + LiveKit helpers
└── sub-skills/           browse / post / TTS / call …

Wake → morning plan
  ↓
Hourly: perceive → intend → act
  ↓
Sleep → night reflect (memory + personality drift)

Memory lives in $ALIVE_HOME (default ~/.alive; Docker: /data/alive).

Commands

alive init | adopt | distill | voice | tick | morning | night | start
alive status | emotion | schedule | memory | context | help

Inside a host chat you can also use /alive … slash commands.

Develop

npm ci
npm run build
npm run typecheck
npm test

PRs welcome — especially adopted-skill fixtures and new persona.yaml files.

License

MIT