recall

A command for searching earlier AI coding conversations and bringing back useful context from them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding past work by keyword, date, or project, then reviewing what was changed, decided, or left open in Claude Code or Cursor sessions.
Why use it?
It avoids repeating decisions or explaining unfinished work when the relevant discussion happened in another session.

Command

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/ofershap/conversation-memory/recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ofershap/conversation-memory
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 342 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 $0.00012 $0.00342
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00171
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00034

Measured yesterday against content hash 73f427f515e0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 yesterday.

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.

commands/recall.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Search your conversation history to find and recall context from past sessions.

Use the conversation-memory skill for history file locations and search strategies.

When a search query is provided

  1. Determine which AI tool's history to search:

    • If in Claude Code: search ~/.claude/history.jsonl first
    • If in Cursor: search ~/.cursor/projects/*/agent-transcripts/
    • If unclear: search both
  2. Search by keyword using grep/rg — never read entire history files

  3. For each matching session, show:

    • Date and time
    • Project name
    • First 80 characters of the conversation topic
    • Session ID or transcript path
  4. Ask which session to load if multiple matches

  5. Read the relevant portion of the selected session

  6. Summarize: what was done, what was decided, what's still open

When no search query is provided

Guide the user:

What do you want to recall from a past conversation?

  • a) Recent work — show my last 10 sessions across all projects
  • b) Specific topic — tell me what to search for (e.g., "auth bug", "migration")
  • c) Specific date — tell me roughly when (e.g., "last Tuesday", "two weeks ago")
  • d) Specific project — which project's history should I search?
  • e) Continue previous task — find where I left off on something

Then proceed with the appropriate search strategy.

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. yesterday First seen · 44 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 73f427f515e0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recall is a command published in the GitHub repository ofershap/conversation-memory (1 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 342 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-31.