mempalace-recall

A rule that tells an agent to search MemPalace before answering questions about past work, decisions, people, projects, or events. MemPalace is a local store of conversation records and related facts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for questions about previous sessions or connected facts, returning the stored wording rather than rewriting it.
Why use it?
It prevents the agent from guessing when the answer may already be stored, and requires it to report when no result or service is available.

Cursor rule

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 rules/mempalace/mempalace/mempalace-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MemPalace/mempalace
Per session 66 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 252 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 $0.00066 $0.00252
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00126
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00025

Measured yesterday against content hash 2284b82feb38, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mempalace-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.

examples/cursor/rules/mempalace-recall.mdc · 21 lines

What it actually says

MemPalace recall

Before answering anything that may already be in the user's memory palace — past work, prior decisions, a person, a project, or "what did we do / decide / discuss last time?" — search the palace first:

  1. Call mempalace_search with a short keyword query. Use mempalace_kg_query for relational or time-bound facts.
  2. Quote the drawer's verbatim text. Never summarize or paraphrase stored content.
  3. If results are empty, say so — do not invent an answer. If the MCP server is unavailable, surface the error; do not fall back to guessing.

Skip recall for pure greenfield work with no memory relevance (renaming a variable, fixing a typo). Recall is question-driven, not reflexive.

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 · 21 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 2284b82feb38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mempalace-recall is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository MemPalace/mempalace (58,752 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 252 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.