Recall: Instructions file for Claude Code

AGENTS.md

Recall AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode from FlineDev/Recall. It costs 1,491 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for the Recall plugin, which preserves useful information from coding-agent sessions as conversations are shortened or compacted.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps maintain session memory, parse conversation transcripts, handle large transcripts, and test the recall workflow.
Why use it?
It explains the plugin’s session hooks, scripts, project layout, and edge cases so agents can restore context reliably.

Instructions file for Claude CodeCodexOpenCode

Written for Claude Code and Codex and OpenCode: PreCompact hook event, but also the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is FlineDev/Recall's own configuration. It tells Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode how to work on Recall itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything Recall configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to FlineDev/Recall. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FlineDev/Recall/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FlineDev/Recall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode.

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 Recall AGENTS.md

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/flinedev/recall/agents-md.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/flinedev/recall/agents-md)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/flinedev/recall/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/flinedev/recall/agents-md.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 1,491 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,491 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.01491 $0.01491
Opus 5 $0.00745 $0.00745
Sonnet 5 $0.00298 $0.00298
Haiku 4.5 $0.00149 $0.00149

Measured 7d ago against content hash 27664c9e29c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Recall AGENTS.md 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 7d 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.

AGENTS.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recall Plugin

Project Structure

Recall/
├── skills/session/
│   └── scripts/           # Core scripts
│       ├── parse-transcript.py   # JSONL → markdown parser (main script)
│       ├── condense-tail.py      # Split + combine for large transcripts (>20K tokens)
│       ├── pre-compact.sh        # PreCompact hook entry point
│       ├── post-compact.sh       # Post-compaction stdout reminder
│       └── session-start.sh      # SessionStart hook (cleanup)
├── tests/
│   ├── conftest.py               # Shared fixtures, module imports
│   ├── generate_fixtures.py      # Generates synthetic JSONL + markdown fixtures
│   ├── fixtures/                 # Generated test data (fictional "TaskTracker" project)
│   │   ├── jsonl/                # 16 JSONL transcript variants
│   │   └── markdown/             # 5 parsed markdown variants
│   ├── test_parse_tool_calls.py
│   ├── test_parse_condensers.py
│   ├── test_parse_session.py
│   ├── test_parse_postprocess.py
│   └── test_condense_tail.py     # Tests for split/combine logic
├── commands/
│   ├── session.md        # /recall:session — manual session recall
│   ├── compact-on.md     # /recall:compact-on — enable compaction integration
│   └── compact-off.md    # /recall:compact-off — disable compaction integration
└── README.md              # User-facing documentation

Architecture: PreCompact writes, CLAUDE.md reads, SessionStart cleans

Claude Code's SessionStart hook stdout is silently dropped (bug). However, CLAUDE.md IS re-read from disk after every compaction, and @file references are resolved during that re-read.

Hook Flow

  1. PreCompact hook (pre-compact.sh):
    • Parses transcript → generates recall content
    • If >20K tokens: condenses with a single claude -p --model sonnet call (~30-40s)
    • Writes result to .claude/recall-context.md in the project directory
    • Also writes to /tmp/recall-<session-id>.md as a persistent copy

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 7d ago First seen · 126 lines · 1,491 tokens per session scan A 27664c9e29c4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Recall AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository FlineDev/Recall (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,491 tokens to every session, about $0.0075 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.

Related

Other instructions, from other repositories

codex AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for openai/codex, covering rust/codex-rs, the codex-core crate, code review rules, crate api surface and model visible context.

openai/codex · 5,182 tokens

vscode buildNext.instructions.md

Working notes and architecture documentation for the new esbuild-based build system in build/next. Use when making changes to the new build pipeline (transpile/bundle commands, NLS plugin, source-map handling, resource copying, or self-hosting watch tasks).

microsoft/vscode · 6,785 tokens

next.js AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for vercel/next.js, covering next.js development guide, codebase structure, monorepo overview, core package: packages/next and other important packages.

vercel/next.js · 7,296 tokens

langchain AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for langchain-ai/langchain, covering global development guidelines for the langchain monorepo, corridor security analysis, project architecture and context, monorepo structure and development tools & commands.

langchain-ai/langchain · 4,469 tokens

vscode oss-third-party-notices.instructions.md

Instructions for microsoft/vscode, covering vs code oss third-party-notices pipeline, architecture, pipeline flow in ci, applying the notice (cutover) and fallback chain (never fail the build).

microsoft/vscode · 5,001 tokens

spec-kit AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md instructions for github/spec-kit, covering agents.md, about spec kit and specify, quickstart — add a new integration in 5 steps, integration architecture and integrationmanifest — file tracking.

github/spec-kit · 7,104 tokens