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.
npx skills add AbsoluteMode/session-recall --skill setupgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AbsoluteMode/session-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/skills/absolutemode/session-recall/setup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/absolutemode/session-recall/setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/absolutemode/session-recall/setup/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/skills/absolutemode/session-recall/setup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/absolutemode/session-recall/setup.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 | $0.00084 | $0.00955 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00382 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00191 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00096 |
Grade A, and why
setup 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Agent-driven setup
You are the installer. Ask the user the three questions below IN CHAT, in the
user's language, then run the commands yourself. Never invent flags — every
command you need is written here. All state lives outside the repo
(~/.local/share/session-recall/), so nothing here touches their project.
0. Install (skip if session-recall --help already works)
pipx install git+https://github.com/AbsoluteMode/session-recall
Plugin (gives the agent recall tools + auto-fresh index): in Claude Code run
/plugin marketplace add AbsoluteMode/session-recall then
/plugin install session-recall; in Cursor add this repository as a plugin
marketplace and run /add-plugin session-recall; other MCP hosts register
session-recall-mcp directly.
1. Three questions (ask in chat, one message)
- Language you mostly work in with your agent (en / zh / ru / other) — picks the bundled embedding model; specialists exist for en and zh, everything else gets the multilingual model.
- Embedder: local or cloud?
- local, zero setup — bundled CPU model, free, nothing leaves the machine, coarser ranking. Also fine: an already-running ollama/lmstudio is picked up automatically.
- cloud (Voyage) — noticeably better ranking + reranker; transcript
surface text is sent to the provider; needs
VOYAGE_API_KEY.
- Solo or team? Solo is the default (nothing is shared, nothing listens). Team = pair with specific colleagues; every answer to them passes a secret scanner and the user's explicit approval.
2. Apply
Language (always):
session-recall setup --lang <en|zh|ru|…> --yes
--yes also runs the first index. Warn first when the history is large
(setup prints the size): on the bundled CPU model months of history can
take a while; that is normal, later runs are incremental.
Cloud embedder: the key must NOT pass through you when avoidable — ask the
user to add export VOYAGE_API_KEY=… (from voyageai.com) to their shell
profile themselves, then re-run session-recall index in a fresh shell.
Never write an API key into any file inside a repository.
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 · 94 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 8acfc296b500
setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository AbsoluteMode/session-recall (13 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 955 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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