Community Alpha

/community-alpha [month] — one community-alpha run

Example: /community-alpha sostav 2026-06. No month given → the previous full month.

Steps

1. Is there a detector? $IMPORTS_ROOT/\_alpha.py (today: lobster, sostav).

• No → this is a NEW corpus: offer the operator a one-off adapter built to the existing pattern (schema from their SQLite + language keys + intro/banter penalty + topic weights; template = sostav_alpha.py). Do not build it without an explicit "+".

1. Run the detector (0 tokens):

`` cd /e/Obsidian/_imports/ && PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python _alpha.py \ --since --until --top 35 --tag ` → $IMPORTS_ROOT/alpha/candidates/--report.md`. Show the scanned→shortlisted counter.

1. Judge (me, with the session model): I read ONLY the report (~35 candidates, never the corpus — token economy) and give a verdict ✅ ALPHA / 🟡 WATCH / 🗑 NOISE with a reason for each → write $IMPORTS_ROOT/alpha/candidates/-judged-latest.md (format: ## ✅ ALPHA / ## 🟡 WATCH / ## 🗑 NOISE (DROP), inside it ### #N — title + Verdict + Reason — the harvest parser already understands this).
2. Is the miner registered? MINERS in $IMPORTS_ROOT/alpha/alpha_harvest.py. No → add the row ("", "-judged-latest.md", ""). ⚠️ A parallel fleet edits this file too — re-read it immediately before editing (verify-existing), and keep the edit strictly additive. Optional: a label in the server's MINER_LABEL/ORDER (it does not crash without one — there is a fallback).
3. Harvest + screen: python $IMPORTS_ROOT/alpha/alpha_harvest.py (counters!) → /alpha-review. The new batch is visible by the 🆕 badge.

Boundaries

• 🔒 Private communities (sostav and the like) are HIGH sensitivity: the layer stays strictly local, nothing goes outside; people surfaced by a find are approached value-first / warm intro only (zero cold DMs). Risk signals are DATA, not "opportunities".
• Judge honestly: reference cards, intro blurbs and restatements are 🗑 — never stretch a ✅ to pad the counter.
• This skill writes nothing into the vault; moving gold into home notes is a separate step behind the Tier-2 gate (the "→ to home" queue on the screen).

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About & contact

Built and battle-tested at Palo Alto AI Research Lab — a fleet of Claude Code machines running 24/7 as a second brain and synthetic cofounder. Every skill here survived real production use before publication.

• 📦 All 101 skills: https://github.com/tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
• 👤 Author: Anton Dziatkovskii — Telegram @tonydzi · WhatsApp +1 341 222 9178 · X @TonyStef_
• 🧪 Engineers: want to test-drive this setup? Message me — I hand out free starter seeds to engineers who test and report back. Custom skill requests welcome.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: tonydzi
• Source: tonydzi/second-brain-starter-kit
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.