Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to strvmarv/total-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.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/strvmarv/total-recall/main/AGENTS.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/strvmarv/total-recallWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/strvmarv/total-recall/agents-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/strvmarv/total-recall/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/strvmarv/total-recall/agents-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/strvmarv/total-recall/agents-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/strvmarv/total-recall/agents-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.09174 | $0.09174 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.03670 | $0.03670 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.01835 | $0.01835 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00917 | $0.00917 |
Grade B, and why
total-recall AGENTS.md scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.
Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping
.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.
- Entries in `~/.claude/settings.json`: `enabledPlugins["total-recall@..."]` and `extraKnownMarketplaces["strvmarv-..."]` How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 387 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent & Contributor Guide
This file is the operational handbook for AI agents and human contributors working in this repo. For end-user docs see README.md; for the contributor onboarding flow see CONTRIBUTING.md. This file documents project-wide rules, the release flow, the plugin system, the session lifecycle, the schema migration framework, and the beta dogfood mechanics.
State as of 0.9.x: total-recall is a .NET 8 NativeAOT plugin (C# imperative shell + F# functional core). Shell: PowerShell (win32) — use PowerShell syntax for all bash commands. The TypeScript implementation that lived in
src/through 0.7.x was stripped during the 0.7.2 → 0.8.0 cutover. Anything in this file that mentionsdist/,bun,tsup,vitest,publish.yml,bin/start.cjs, orsrc/db/schema.tsis either gone or renamed — see the strip series inCHANGELOG.md(commits87975a7→7a8c437).
Quick Reference
Project Overview
.NET 8 NativeAOT MCP server plugin (C# imperative shell + F# functional core) with npm packaging for Claude Code / Copilot CLI / Cursor / Kiro / OpenCode marketplace distribution. Three-tier memory (Hot/Warm/Cold with a sticky flag — new entries default to warm and earn promotion to hot by access; sticky pins, set via memory_pin/memory_unpin, are always injected first and immune to decay/compaction) + hierarchical KB, all local by default (SQLite + sqlite-vec + bundled ONNX), optionally synced to Cortex (sticky pins are local-only, never synced). The single binary also exposes a third surface: a built-in local web UI (total-recall ui) serving an embedded React SPA with six sections (Dashboard, Memory, Knowledge Base, Usage, Insights, Config) via TotalRecall.Web.
Layer Diagram
TotalRecall.Host (C#) ← AOT entry point + composition root
├── TotalRecall.Server (C#) ← MCP JSON-RPC over stdio; 49 handlers (one file each)
├── TotalRecall.Web (C#) ← embedded minimal-API + React SPA (web UI), dispatches to ToolRegistry
├── TotalRecall.Cli (C#) ← CLI commands (Spectre.Console), including `total-recall ui`
├── TotalRecall.Infrastructure (C#) ← SQLite/Postgres, ONNX embedder, importers, migrations
└── TotalRecall.Core (F#) ← Pure functions: tokenizer, decay, ranking, parsers, chunker
npm wrapper layer (zero-dep Node):
bin/start.js (launcher) ← dispatches on argv: `serve` (or no args) runs the MCP
bootstrap shim (IS the MCP server from the harness's view; comes up instantly;
provisions [sha256-verified via release provisioning.manifest.json] + spawns +
proxies the NativeAOT engine; supervises/restarts on crash; never drops the MCP
connection). Every OTHER subcommand (`ui`, `reindex-embeddings`, `config`,
`dump-catalog`, …) is run via bin/shim/direct.js — provision then spawn the engine
directly with inherited stdio (NO shim/handshake), because those emit human-readable
stdout, not MCP JSON-RPC. Shim modules: bin/shim/{jsonrpc-stdio,state,server-surface,
provisioner,engine-proxy,orchestrator,direct}.js. catalog.json (repo root) seeds
tools/list before the engine is ready; generated by
`dotnet run --project src/TotalRecall.Host -- dump-catalog`.
scripts/fetch-binary.js ← download helper (shared by postinstall + provisioner)
scripts/postinstall.js, scripts/verify-binaries.js
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 387 lines · 9,174 tokens per session scan B 0787a845384e
total-recall AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository strvmarv/total-recall (15 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,174 tokens to every session, about $0.0367 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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