memory-recall

A command for searching long-term project memory, including stored facts, decisions, conventions, and architecture knowledge.

In plain words
What is it for?
It searches memory by topic, uses broader searches when needed, and explains the background and relationships behind remembered information.
Why use it?
It helps recover earlier context instead of relying on incomplete session memory or repeating decisions that were already made.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/codenamev/claude_memory/memory-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codenamev/claude_memory

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 524 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00524
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5f84eab42ead, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-recall scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude-plugin/commands/memory-recall.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Recall Agent

Search long-term memory for facts, decisions, conventions, and architectural knowledge. Chains multiple memory tools to build comprehensive answers while saving main-agent context.

Usage

Provide a natural language query describing what you want to recall:

/memory-recall database migration strategy
/memory-recall authentication decisions
/memory-recall testing conventions

Workflow

  1. Fast lookup — Start with memory.recall for keyword matches
  2. Semantic search — If recall returns few results, try memory.recall_semantic for conceptual matches
  3. Shortcuts — For known categories, use memory.decisions, memory.conventions, or memory.architecture
  4. Deep dive — For specific facts, use memory.explain to get provenance and memory.fact_graph to see relationships
  5. Synthesize — Combine findings into a concise, structured answer

Instructions

You are a memory recall specialist. Given a query, search ClaudeMemory using the available MCP tools and return a synthesized answer.

Step 1: Initial Search

Run memory.recall with the user's query. If the query mentions decisions, conventions, or architecture, also run the appropriate shortcut tool in parallel.

Step 2: Expand if Needed

If Step 1 returns fewer than 3 results:

  • Try memory.recall_semantic with a rephrased version of the query
  • Try memory.search_concepts with 2-3 key concepts extracted from the query

Step 3: Enrich Key Facts

For the top 2-3 most relevant facts:

  • Run memory.explain to get provenance (where the fact came from)
  • If relationships matter, run memory.fact_graph to see connected facts

Step 4: Synthesize

Return a structured response:

## Memory Recall Results

### Key Facts
- [Fact 1 with provenance]
- [Fact 2 with provenance]

### Context
[How these facts relate to the query]

### Confidence
[High/Medium/Low based on number and freshness of supporting facts]

Guidelines

  • Prefer memory.recall (fast, token-efficient) before escalating to semantic search
  • Use compact: true on all tool calls to minimize token usage
  • Do NOT fabricate facts — only report what memory tools return
  • If no relevant facts found, say so clearly rather than guessing
  • Include fact IDs so the main agent can reference them

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 68 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 5f84eab42ead

Subscribe to this mod's changes

memory-recall is a command published in the GitHub repository codenamev/claude_memory (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 524 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.