memory-recall

memory-recall is a command for coding agents from verygoodplugins/mcp-automem. It costs 9 tokens per session (338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for searching persistent memories and bringing relevant project notes, preferences, or debugging lessons into the current work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recall user preferences, project context, file or tool details, and fixes for similar error messages.
Why use it?
It saves time by finding earlier decisions and solutions instead of relying only on the current conversation.

Command

Part of the automem plugin — 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server 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/verygoodplugins/mcp-automem/memory-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/verygoodplugins/mcp-automem

Or install automem, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 3 commands, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 memory-recall

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 338 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 $0.00009 $0.00338
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00034

Measured 4d ago against content hash c9c03f4de507, 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 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/automem/commands/memory-recall.md · 54 lines

What it actually says

Memory Recall

Perform context-aware memory search:

  1. Analyze Context:

    • User's actual nouns: project names, products, files, errors, people, tools
    • Whether this is a preferences recall, project-context recall, or debugging recall
    • Whether a tag gate would help or would hard-filter away relevant results
  2. Execute Recall:

    Use the recall_memory memory tool with an appropriate strategy:

    Preferences:

    recall_memory({
      tags: ["preference"],
      limit: 20,
      sort: "updated_desc"
    })
    

    Project / task context:

    recall_memory({
      query: "[proper nouns, file names, tool names, specific topics from the user's request]",
      tags: ["project-slug"],   // drop if ambiguous
      time_query: "last 90 days",
      limit: 30
    })
    

    Debug Similar Errors (no tag gate — bugfix/solution tagging is incomplete and a hard gate hides cross-corpus fixes):

    recall_memory({
      query: "[error message keywords]",
      limit: 20
    })
    

    Use queries[] only for genuinely multi-topic questions. Prefer one good query over templated multi-query recall.

  3. Present Results: Show memories with:

    • Content summary
    • Creation date
    • Importance score
    • Actionable insights

Present the information naturally, not as a database query result.

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 · 54 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A c9c03f4de507

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memory-recall is a command published in the GitHub repository verygoodplugins/mcp-automem (64 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 338 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.