System maintenance -- stale tasks, orphan folders, unsaved sessions, world health check

Scaffold a new walnut -- venture, experiment, person, life area, project

Morning operating system -- sync inputs, read everything, surface priorities, show the day

Flag walnuts past their rhythm -- health check for the world

Scan 03_Inbox/ for unrouted files, present routing suggestions

Nightly scan of session transcripts -- extract decisions, tasks, people, insights

Weekly -- cross-reference people mentions, nudge stale contacts

Search across all walnuts -- decisions, people, files, references, insights, log history

Dashboard of all walnuts -- grouped by ALIVE domain, health signals, what needs attention

Use when external content arrives in the session — emails, transcripts, screenshots, documents, files, or in-session research worth keeping. Also use when there's nothing obvious to capture — the skill checks 03_Inbox/ for unrouted files and enters inbox scan mode. Stores raw content, routes to bundles, extracts tasks and insights into the stash.

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.

The human wants to checkpoint. Or: the stash has grown heavy — 5+ items, 30+ minutes, a natural pause in the work. The squirrel doesn't decide when to save. It surfaces the need and lets the human pull the trigger. Runs the full save protocol: confirms stash, writes log, updates state, generates projections, dispatches, resets.

The human needs something that exists somewhere in the world but they don't know where. A decision, a person, a file, a reference — it's been captured, they just can't find it. Searches decisions, people, files, references, insights, and log history across all walnuts in priority order.

Rebuild a rich context window from multiple previous sessions. Dispatches a swarm of subagents to mine squirrel entries, read actual files touched, extract log history, and merge conflicting session states into one coherent working context. Essential for resuming after time away or merging parallel sessions.