recall

recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jl-cmd/claude-dev-env. It costs 19 tokens per session (331 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A context-retrieval workflow for finding earlier project notes in an Obsidian vault. It searches prior session summaries, decisions, research, and gotchas, then reads the most relevant notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before current work to recover project history, earlier choices, related research, and known traps.
Why use it?
It reduces repeated investigation and helps preserve continuity between coding sessions. It also shows whether an earlier decision has been replaced.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-dev-env plugin — 45 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env/recall
Any agent
npx skills add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env --skill recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-dev-env, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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.

agentmods badge for recall

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 331 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00019 $0.00331
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00033

Measured 4d ago against content hash 4775b0629df3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills-archived/recall/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Recall

Search the Obsidian vault for prior session context, decisions, research, and gotchas relevant to the current task.

Instructions

  1. Determine search query. If $ARGUMENTS is provided, use it as the search query. Otherwise, infer the project name from the current conversation context (git remote, working directory, or topic being discussed).

  2. Search by frontmatter first. Use mcp__obsidian__search_notes with searchFrontmatter: true and the project name. This finds session reports and decision notes tagged with the project.

  3. Search by content keywords. If frontmatter search returns few results, search again by content using relevant keywords from the current task (component names, error messages, library names).

  4. Read top matches. Use mcp__obsidian__read_note to read the top 3 most relevant results. Prefer recent notes over older ones. Prefer decision notes and session summaries over raw research.

  5. Present findings with attribution. For each note, include:

    • Note path and date
    • Project name
    • Relevant excerpts (not the full note unless it's short)
    • Whether any decisions are marked status: Superseded
  6. Handle no results honestly. If no vault history exists for this project, say so explicitly. Do not fabricate or infer history that isn't in the vault.

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 28 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 4775b0629df3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 331 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 2026-08-31.

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