conversation-recall

conversation-recall is a skill for Claude Code from danilop/claude-total-recall. It costs 60 tokens per session (1,405 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A search tool for finding relevant parts of earlier Claude Code conversations. Semantic search looks for meaning and related ideas, not only exact words.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after context compaction, when recalling a previous fix, or when looking up past project and cross-project discussions.
Why use it?
It helps recover decisions, preferences, and technical context that are missing from the current conversation or were discussed in another project.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the claude-total-recall plugin — 1 skill, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it after context compaction, when recalling a previous fix, or when looking up past project and cross-project discussions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danilop/claude-total-recall/conversation-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 danilop/claude-total-recall --skill conversation-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danilop/claude-total-recall

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-total-recall, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,405 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00060 $0.01405
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00702
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00140

Measured 12d ago against content hash 020074e258d2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conversation-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 12d 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.

skills/conversation-recall/SKILL.md · 200 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 200 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conversation Recall Skill

Search past Claude Code conversation history using semantic search.

When to Trigger

1. After Compaction

When context is compacted, earlier details are summarized. Search to recover originals:

  • You see a compact_boundary marker
  • User references something discussed earlier but details are missing
  • User says "like we discussed", "as I mentioned", "continue with..."
User: "Continue implementing the auth system like we discussed"
→ search_project_history(query="auth system implementation")

2. Cross-Session

Find discussions from previous sessions (not just the current one):

  • "How did we fix that bug yesterday?"
  • "What approach did we decide on last week?"
  • "Remember when we refactored the database?"
User: "How did we fix that auth bug last week?"
→ search_project_history(query="auth bug fix")

3. Cross-Project

Find user preferences and patterns across all projects:

  • "How do I usually handle errors?"
  • "What's my preferred testing approach?"
  • "What package manager do I use for Python?"
User: "How do I usually structure React components?"
→ search_global_history(query="React component structure")

Which Tool to Use

Scope Tool Examples
Current project search_project_history Bugs, decisions, implementations in this codebase
All projects search_global_history User preferences, patterns, conventions

Parameters

Both tools accept:

  • query (required): Keywords or sentence to search
  • after (optional): Filter to messages on/after this date (inclusive). ISO 8601 format.
  • before (optional): Filter to messages before this date (exclusive). ISO 8601 format.
  • context_before_after (default: 3): Messages before/after each match
  • threshold (default: 0.2): Minimum similarity (0-1)
  • max_results (default: 10): Results to return
  • offset (default: 0): Skip results for pagination
  • include_subagents (default: true): Include agent conversations

Read the full file on GitHub · 200 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. 12d ago First seen · 200 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 020074e258d2

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conversation-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository danilop/claude-total-recall (2 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 1,405 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 2026-08-31.

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