memex-recall

memex-recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from iamtouchskyer/memex. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,277 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A memory-recall tool for loading relevant prior notes from a Zettelkasten, a system of linked knowledge cards. It searches that stored memory before work that may benefit from earlier context.

In plain words
What is it for?
Searching prior project context and reading selected notes through the memex command-line tool or an available integration.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeat past decisions or rediscover project knowledge. It can bring back only the relevant notes instead of loading the entire knowledge base.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the memex plugin — 7 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Searching prior project context and reading selected notes through the memex command-line tool or an available integration.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install memex, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,277 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 $0.00023 $0.01277
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00128

Measured 9d ago against content hash c8e9ebe3e5df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memex-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 9d 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/memex-recall/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Recall

You have access to a Zettelkasten memory system via the memex CLI. Before starting this task, search your memory for relevant prior knowledge.

Tools Available

Three equivalent interfaces — use whichever your environment supports:

CLI (memex in PATH) Plugin CLI fallback (Claude Code) MCP tool (VSCode / Cursor)
memex read index node ~/.claude/plugins/cache/cc-plugins/memex/*/dist/cli.js read index memex_read with slug index
memex search <q> node ~/.claude/plugins/cache/cc-plugins/memex/*/dist/cli.js search <q> memex_search with query arg
memex read <slug> node ~/.claude/plugins/cache/cc-plugins/memex/*/dist/cli.js read <slug> memex_read with slug arg
memex search (no args) node ~/.claude/plugins/cache/cc-plugins/memex/*/dist/cli.js search memex_search with no args

Resolution order: Try memex in PATH first. If not found, define a shell function and use it:

memex() { node $HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/cc-plugins/memex/*/dist/cli.js "$@"; }

If both CLI approaches fail, use MCP tools.

The rest of this skill uses memex CLI syntax for brevity.

Process

digraph recall {
    "Task received" -> "Relevant to prior work?" [shape=diamond];
    "Relevant to prior work?" -> "Generate 1-3 search keywords" [label="yes"];
    "Relevant to prior work?" -> "Proceed without recall" [label="no"];
    "Generate 1-3 search keywords" -> "memex search <query>";
    "memex search <query>" -> "Review summaries";
    "Review summaries" -> "Relevant cards found?" [shape=diamond];
    "Relevant cards found?" -> "memex read <card>" [label="yes"];
    "Relevant cards found?" -> "Need broad overview?" [label="no"];
    "Need broad overview?" -> "memex read index" [label="yes"];
    "Need broad overview?" -> "Proceed without recall" [label="no"];
    "memex read index" -> "Pick relevant slugs" -> "memex read <card>";
    "memex read <card>" -> "See [[links]] in content";
    "See [[links]] in content" -> "Links worth following?" [shape=diamond];
    "Links worth following?" -> "memex read <linked-card>" [label="yes"];
    "Links worth following?" -> "Enough context?" [label="no"];
    "memex read <linked-card>" -> "See [[links]] in content";
    "Enough context?" -> "More queries to try?" [label="no"];
    "More queries to try?" -> "Generate new query" [label="yes"];
    "Generate new query" -> "memex search <query>";
    "More queries to try?" -> "Summarize findings, proceed with task" [label="no"];
    "Enough context?" -> "Summarize findings, proceed with task" [label="yes"];
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. 9d ago First seen · 95 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A c8e9ebe3e5df

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memex-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository iamtouchskyer/memex (141 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,277 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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