aida-recall

aida-recall is a skill for Claude Code from LWTlong/aida. It costs 41 tokens per session (347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A project-memory lookup skill that finds recorded decisions in a codebase's .claude/rules/decisions/ folder. It explains why particular implementation choices were made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding decisions related to a module or file path, answering why a change was made, and reviewing recorded project choices.
Why use it?
It helps developers recover the reasoning behind existing code instead of guessing from the code alone.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the aida plugin — 13 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Finding decisions related to a module or file path, answering why a change was made, and reviewing recorded project choices.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lwtlong/aida/aida-recall
View source ↗ LWTlong/aida
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 LWTlong/aida --skill aida-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LWTlong/aida

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aida, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 1 command, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.00347
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 8d ago against content hash 601f527cccc5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aida-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 8d 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.

src/assets/skills/aida-recall/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

AIDA Recall

Goal

Surface relevant project decisions from .claude/rules/decisions/. Help the user understand why the code is written the way it is.

Steps

  1. Call aida_recall with action: "list" to get all decisions.
  2. Filter by relevance to the user's question (by paths, tags, title keywords).
  3. For the top matches, call aida_recall with action: "get" to show full detail.
  4. Present findings clearly.

Output Format

If the user asked about a specific area (e.g. "what do we know about auth"):

Decisions for src/auth/**

Use JWT refresh rotation (2026-06-14) Context: The previous long-lived refresh tokens couldn't be revoked without a DB hit on every request... Decision: Rotate refresh tokens on every use. Old token invalidated immediately... Consequences: Race condition on parallel requests mitigated by 5s grace window...

If no relevant decisions:

No recorded decisions match this area. Consider running /aida-remember-branch after your next feature.

Tips

  • Decisions auto-load per file based on paths frontmatter — the user may already have relevant ones in context
  • aida_recall list returns all decisions sorted by date — useful for a quick "what did we decide recently?"
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. 8d ago First seen · 35 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 601f527cccc5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aida-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository LWTlong/aida (8 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 347 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 2026-08-31.

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