memory-recall

memory-recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OpenCoven/coven. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,692 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only memory lookup skill for retrieving approved facts and decisions from the shared Coven memory store. It is designed to work across different agent runtimes and does not change stored memory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer questions about previously agreed decisions, attested facts, or shared context from other agents.
Why use it?
It brings earlier cross-session or cross-agent context into the current task when that information is not in the current conversation or local agent notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/opencoven/coven/memory-recall
Any agent
npx skills add OpenCoven/coven --skill memory-recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OpenCoven/coven

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,692 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00043 $0.01692
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00846
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00169

Measured 5d ago against content hash 0503d9237736, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-recall scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 5d 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.

Runs shell commandslowCapability

Expected in a hook, worth knowing in a rule or an instructions file.

`execve`/`subprocess.run(["coven-memory", "search", "--familiar", familiar,
skills/memory-recall/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Memory Recall

Retrieval-side contract for the Coven memory layer (Authoritative Plan v1 hole #7; bead cmem-pbr). Any familiar, under any runtime, uses this skill to pull already-promoted facts back into working context. It does not write, promote, or mutate anything under ~/.coven/memory — that is the promotion layer's job (coven memory promote, schema: familiar-contract/schemas/coven-memory-schema.md §11).

When to use

  • The question depends on a promoted Coven fact, decision, or cross-familiar context rather than the current session or the familiar's own MEMORY.md.
  • "Did we decide X?" / "what did attest about Y?" for anything that plausibly predates the current session or originated with another familiar.
  • As a supplement to the runtime's own memory search (which covers per-familiar MEMORY.md / daily notes / transcripts). Recall covers the layer below that: promoted, attested, cross-familiar-visible.

When NOT to use

  • Answer is in the current session → just answer.
  • Answer is in the familiar's own MEMORY.md or daily files → use the runtime's memory tools.
  • The promotion layer has not run for the relevant window → recall returns empty; say so honestly. Never fabricate a hit.

Inputs

Field Type Required Description
query string Natural-language question or keyword phrase.
familiar string Store scope filter passed to the crate: coven (default; the shared store) or a familiar id for per-familiar stores. Must match ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]{1,128}$ — the same shape the crate's own validate_identifier enforces for familiar_id.
k int Max results. Default 5, max 20.
since / until ISO date Filter on manifest timestamp.
verified_only bool Default true. Drop hits whose manifest sha256 no longer matches the promoted snapshot or whose attested_via file is missing.

Outputs

Field Type Description
hits array Ordered {ulid, title, type, memory_type, snippet, score, attested_by, attestation_type, promoted_at, superseded_by?}
count int Length of hits.
queried_at RFC3339 UTC When the recall ran.
manifest_hash string SHA-256 of manifest.jsonl consulted (drift detection between calls).
dropped int Hits removed by verification (verified_only=true). Surfaced, never silent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 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. 5d ago First seen · 117 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 0503d9237736

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memory-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository OpenCoven/coven (46 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,692 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (runs shell commands). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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