ijfw-recall

ijfw-recall is a skill for Claude Code from FerroxLabs/ijfw. It costs 40 tokens per session (321 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-memory lookup tool that finds notes relevant to the current task or starts a session. It groups results into working memory and longer-term project memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to recall decisions, rules, and other saved project notes at the start of a task or when you ask what the project already knows.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat project decisions and context to the coding agent. It also clearly reports when no relevant notes were found.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ijfw plugin — 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to recall decisions, rules, and other saved project notes at the start of a task or when you ask what the project already knows.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ferroxlabs/ijfw/ijfw-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 FerroxLabs/ijfw --skill ijfw-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FerroxLabs/ijfw

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ijfw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 22 commands, 37 agents, 6 hooks.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 321 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.00321
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00161
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00032

Measured 4d ago against content hash 967e76576506, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ijfw-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 4d 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.

claude/skills/ijfw-recall/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Execution

  1. Call ijfw_memory_recall with the current task or goal as the query. If no specific query, use the last user message or the project name.

  2. Also call ijfw_metrics to get tier sizes and last-update timestamps.

  3. Present findings grouped by tier:

WORKING MEMORY (hot -- .ijfw/memory/)
  <N> entries found
  - <key>: <one-line summary>  [<date>]
  ...

PROJECT MEMORY (project-level decisions)
  - <key>: <one-line summary>  [<date>]
  ...

NOTHING RECALLED
  Clean slate -- no relevant entries found for "<query>".
  Start a session to begin building memory.
  1. After presenting, offer in one line:

    <N> things recalled. Want the full text of any entry? (name it)

Rules

  • Never dump raw file contents. Summarize each entry to one line.
  • If memory is empty or the MCP tool is unavailable, check .ijfw/memory/knowledge.md directly -- it is plain markdown.
  • Omit tiers with zero matches. Show "Clean slate" only when all tiers are empty.
  • Do not fabricate entries. If recall returns nothing, say so clearly.
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. 4d ago First seen · 40 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 967e76576506

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ijfw-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository FerroxLabs/ijfw (210 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 321 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.

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