remnic-recall

remnic-recall is a skill for Claude Code from joshuaswarren/remnic. It costs 35 tokens per session (488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A memory-search skill that looks through stored Remnic memories using a natural-language question. Remnic is a memory system for retrieving relevant context from earlier conversations or notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to know what was previously discussed or remembered about a topic, project, or decision.
Why use it?
It helps recover prior decisions, discussions, and background instead of relying only on the current conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the remnic plugin — 6 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when you want to know what was previously discussed or remembered about a topic, project, or decision.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install remnic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 488 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 $0.00035 $0.00488
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00244
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00049

Measured 12d ago against content hash 892d1c78ce90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remnic-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.

packages/plugin-claude-code/skills/remnic-recall/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

When to use

Use when the user or the current task needs prior context from Remnic. This is the default first step for any non-trivial Claude Code turn that could benefit from memory.

Triggers:

  • "What do you remember about …"
  • "Have we talked about …"
  • /remnic:recall <query> slash command invocation.
  • A new task begins and the agent wants background.

Inputs

  • query (required) — natural-language question or topic string.
  • Optional: caller-supplied budget hint (brief, deep).

Procedure

  1. Build a concise natural-language query from the user's message. Prefer the user's own wording.
  2. Call remnic_recall with that query; request 3–8 results unless the caller specified otherwise.
  3. Filter results for topical relevance.
  4. Present 1–5 bullet points summarizing the relevant memories, attributed when useful.
  5. If nothing relevant came back, say so plainly and suggest remnic-remember if there is something worth storing now.

Efficiency plan

  • One broad recall beats several narrow ones.
  • Reuse recall results within the same turn — do not re-query the same topic.
  • Skip recall for trivially local tasks.

Pitfalls and fixes

  • Pitfall: Quoting irrelevant recalls just because they came back. Fix: Filter for relevance before surfacing.
  • Pitfall: Over-narrowing the query. Fix: Start broad; refine only when the first pass was noisy.
  • Pitfall: Showing raw memory payloads. Fix: Summarize in the user's own terms.

Verification checklist

  • remnic_recall was called with a natural-language query.
  • Results were filtered for relevance before being shown.
  • Summary is ≤ 5 bullets unless the user asked for more.
  • Canonical remnic_recall was used over legacy engram_recall.

Tool names: canonical name is remnic_recall. The legacy engram_recall alias remains accepted during v1.x.

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 · 52 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 892d1c78ce90

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remnic-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository joshuaswarren/remnic (198 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 488 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 2026-08-30.

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