recall

recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from 7xuanlu/wenlan. It costs 32 tokens per session (927 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of recall, Apache-2.0.

A Wenlan skill for searching its local memory for a specific fact, decision, lesson, or preference. It accepts a natural-language query and can search within a named space.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up a particular item in Wenlan memory, optionally limiting the search to one space.
Why use it?
It helps retrieve one needed piece of stored context without loading a broad session summary. This can save time when an agent needs a targeted answer from earlier work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to look up a particular item in Wenlan memory, optionally limiting the search to one space.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/7xuanlu/wenlan/recall
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.

Any agent
npx skills add 7xuanlu/wenlan --skill recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/7xuanlu/wenlan

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 927 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Agent Snooping · line 36
    Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl
How audits are shown
Origin 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00032 $0.00927
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00371
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00185
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00093

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 454d738cd473, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

recall 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.

resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to recall — 154 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugin-codex/skills/recall/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/recall

Search Wenlan memory by natural-language query. Use /brief for broad session orientation and /recall for a specific fact, decision, lesson, or preference.

Argument parsing

Accept one optional inline token of the form space:<name> anywhere in the argument string. Extract it before treating the rest as the query:

raw_args="<the full argument string passed to /recall>"
space_arg="$(printf '%s\n' "$raw_args" | grep -oE 'space:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+' | head -1 | cut -d: -f2)"
query="$(printf '%s\n' "$raw_args" | sed -E 's/[[:space:]]*space:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+[[:space:]]*/ /g' | sed -E 's/^[[:space:]]+|[[:space:]]+$//g')"

If query is empty, ask the user what they want to search for.

Resolve the active space

Call the Codex resolver:

# The resolver ships inside the installed plugin; the relative path only
# exists in a wenlan checkout.
resolver="$(find "$HOME/.codex/plugins/cache" -path '*/wenlan/*/bin/resolve-space.sh' 2>/dev/null | head -1)"
resolved="$("${resolver:-plugin-codex/bin/resolve-space.sh}" --cwd "$PWD" ${space_arg:+--arg "$space_arg"} 2>/dev/null)"
space="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f1)"
source_layer="$(printf '%s\n' "$resolved" | cut -f2)"

If space is non-empty, print:

Resolved space: <space> (from <source-layer>)

If space is empty, print:

Resolved space: none (unscoped)

Pass space="<resolved>" to mcp__wenlan__recall only when space is non-empty. Do not substitute personal for an unscoped result.

Expand once, then call recall

Rewrite the query only enough to improve retrieval:

  • Replace pronouns with the referent from the current thread.
  • Expand an abbreviation when the embedder may miss it.
  • Add one obvious synonym when the user's wording is too narrow.

Do not issue multiple recall calls. Use one call:

mcp__wenlan__recall(
  query="<expanded query>",
  space="<resolved if non-empty>",
  memory_type="<only if the query names a type>"
)

Infer memory_type only when the user names a type, such as "decision on X", "lesson about Y", or "preference for Z". Otherwise omit it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 117 lines · 32 tokens per session scan B 454d738cd473

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository 7xuanlu/wenlan (79 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 927 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). It is 86% identical to recall, differing in 154 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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