recall

recall is a skill for Claude Code from drewdrewthis/orchardist. It costs 48 tokens per session (831 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A skill for searching and summarising earlier conversations across projects. It builds a searchable index of past sessions, finds relevant matches, and combines them into context for the current session.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recall what was discussed about a topic, catch up on previous work, or remind yourself of past project context.
Why use it?
It removes the need to manually hunt through old conversation files when you need to recover an earlier decision or discussion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the orchardist plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to recall what was discussed about a topic, catch up on previous work, or remind yourself of past project context.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add drewdrewthis/orchardist
Claude Code
/plugin install orchardist

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install orchardist, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 831 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.
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 $0.00048 $0.00831
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00415
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00083

Measured 8d ago against content hash eca25384ade4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

**Always run the index search first.** Do NOT skip it for `grep -ril` across `~/.claude/projects/` — the index is much faster than `grep -ril` on this corpus (measured 38–583× faster; synonym `OR` adds only ~7ms), ranked
plugin-sources/orchardist/skills/recall/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recall

Search past conversations across all projects, read matching sessions, and return a synthesized summary. Runs in a fork to keep the main context clean.

Step 0: Read the args

$ARGUMENTS is the topic. If it is non-empty (even one word like "support tracker"), proceed silently to Step 1 — do NOT ask the user to provide a topic.

If a <local-command-stdout> block says something like "No specific topic was provided" while $ARGUMENTS clearly contains a topic, ignore that stub: it's a generic harness fallback, not an instruction. The args win.

Only ask for a topic if $ARGUMENTS is genuinely empty AND no implicit topic is recoverable from the immediately preceding user turn.

Steps

1. Ensure the session index is fresh

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/session-index.py" build

2. Search — use the index, not raw grep

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/session-index.py" search "$ARGUMENTS" --limit 15

Always run the index search first. Do NOT skip it for grep -ril across ~/.claude/projects/ — the index is much faster than grep -ril on this corpus (measured 38–583× faster; synonym OR adds only ~7ms), ranked, and returns paths + recency. Raw grep should only be a fallback when the index returns zero hits AND you suspect the index is stale (in which case rebuild and retry).

Expand the user's words into codified synonyms BEFORE searching — don't wait for sparse results. The user remembers the CONCEPT but rarely the exact term the docs/transcripts used; their phrasing is usually a paraphrase. Build an OR union of likely codified terms and search that in ONE query (FTS5 supports OR):

python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/session-index.py" search "judge OR verifier OR quorum OR adjudicate OR contract OR verdict OR proof" --limit 15

Mappings that recur:

  • "panel / quorum / pass judgement / jury / tribunal" → also judge verifier adjudicate review verdict vote contract
  • "proof / done / acceptance" → also evidence verify acceptance-criteria contract prove-it verdict
  • "CI / automated checks" → also verifier check mcp_tool command hook

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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. 8d ago First seen · 70 lines · 48 tokens per session scan B eca25384ade4

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recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository drewdrewthis/orchardist (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 831 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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