recover-context

recover-context is a command for coding agents from pchalasani/claude-code-tools. It costs 0 tokens per session (167 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for recovering the full context of the most recent parent coding session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find what the previous task was, whether it was completed or blocked, and which related documents or files were created.
Why use it?
It helps when the current session lacks the earlier task details, status, or files needed to continue safely.

Command

Part of the aichat plugin — 2 skills, 1 command, 1 agent shipped together

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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/recover-context
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools

Or install aichat, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 1 command, 1 agent.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for recover-context

README.md
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Your own site
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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 167 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 $0.00167
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00084
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00017

Measured 4d ago against content hash add4e0cfc4d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recover-context 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 4d 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.

plugins/aichat/commands/recover-context.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Strategically explore the most recent parent session from the session lineage (shown in the first user message) to extract the full context of the last task.

Use the session-searcher sub-agent (if sub-agents are available) so that you do not bloat your own context. If sub-agents are not available, use the aichat:session-search skill instead.

You may also look at any associated markdown files that were created during that most recent session (e.g., issue specs, work logs, design docs).

After recovering the context, report back:

  1. What was the last task being worked on?
  2. What was its current state (completed, in-progress, blocked)?
  3. Any relevant files or documents found
  4. Ask how the user would like to proceed
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. 4d ago First seen · 16 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A add4e0cfc4d2

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recover-context is a command published in the GitHub repository pchalasani/claude-code-tools (1,989 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 167 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.