hipocampus-recall

hipocampus-recall is a skill for Claude Code from kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus. It costs 34 tokens per session (729 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for recalling information from persistent agent memory. It starts with a topic index, then checks summaries and performs a deeper search when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a question may relate to previous sessions, stored project notes, or earlier decisions.
Why use it?
It gives the agent a consistent way to find past context while avoiding unnecessary searches. This helps distinguish remembered information from topics that need outside research.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the hipocampus plugin — 5 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when a question may relate to previous sessions, stored project notes, or earlier decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus/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 kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus --skill recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hipocampus, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 3 hooks.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 729 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 $0.00034 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00073

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1b6a7491dfb8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hipocampus-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.

skills/recall/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Recall Protocol

Use this when the user's question may relate to past memory. Three-step fallback: ROOT.md O(1) lookup → manifest LLM selection → qmd search.

Step 1: ROOT.md Triage (O(1) — always try first)

Check ROOT.md Topics Index for the query topic.

  • Direct match found → read the referenced file (knowledge/, daily log date, etc.). Done.
  • Partial match / related topic found → read referenced file, check if it answers the query. Done if yes.
  • No match at all → proceed to Step 2.

Decision rule: If Topics Index contains a keyword within 1 semantic hop of the query, it's a match. "배포" matches "deployment". "CI/CD" matches "github-actions".

Step 2: Manifest-Based LLM Selection (when ROOT.md is insufficient)

Use this ONLY when ROOT.md Topics Index has no relevant match but you suspect memory may exist (e.g., the user references something that sounds familiar, or the topic is cross-domain).

  1. Build manifest from compaction node frontmatter (NOT full content):

    • Read memory/weekly/*.md frontmatter only (type, period, topics)
    • Read memory/monthly/*.md frontmatter only (type, period, topics)
    • Read knowledge/*.md first 3 lines only
    • Skip memory/daily/ (already rolled up into weekly)
  2. Self-evaluate: Given the manifest and the user's query, select up to 5 most relevant files.

  3. Load selected files in full and extract the answer.

Token budget: Manifest should be <500 tokens. If too large, use monthly nodes only.

Step 3: qmd Search (fallback)

If Step 1-2 don't find the answer and qmd is installed:

qmd query "keyword1 keyword2"      # hybrid (BM25 + vector)
qmd search "keyword1 keyword2"     # BM25 only
qmd vsearch "semantic query"       # vector only

Use 2-4 specific keywords. Try variations if first query misses.

Freshness Warnings

When recalling memory, check the source age:

  • project type + >30 days old: append warning — "이 정보는 {N}일 전 기록입니다. 현재 상태를 확인하세요."
  • reference type + [?] marker: append warning — "이 참조는 검증되지 않았습니다. 접근 가능 여부를 확인하세요."
  • user/feedback type: no age warning (these are durable).

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 12d ago First seen · 68 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 1b6a7491dfb8

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hipocampus-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository kevin-hs-sohn/hipocampus (206 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 729 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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