recall

recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Parcha-ai/parcha-skills. It costs 140 tokens per session (2,493 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A local search tool for finding earlier Claude Code and Codex sessions in indexed conversation history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find a previous conversation, continue its work, repeat it with new inputs, or turn the approach into a skill.
Why use it?
It helps recover useful context from past work instead of searching long transcript files manually.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also reads ~/.codex or $CODEX_HOME. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the recall plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to find a previous conversation, continue its work, repeat it with new inputs, or turn the approach into a skill.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install recall, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,493 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 41
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 41
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 130
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00140 $0.02493
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00249

Measured 11d ago against content hash d3c0acebd0d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/codex_identity.py, scripts/recall-hook.sh, scripts/recall.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

recall/skills/recall/SKILL.md · 217 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 217 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/recall: session memory engine

Claude Code and Codex sessions on this machine are indexed into a local SQLite engine. Query the index and read only the best-supported session instead of searching entire transcripts. All commands go through one CLI:

python3 scripts/recall.py <command>       # relative to this skill directory

If Recall MCP tools are available in the current agent, immediately read references/central-brain.md before running commands and use those tools directly. Do not run the local CLI as a parallel or fallback retrieval path. The same central instructions apply when RECALL_URL is set, RECALL_MODE is remote or shadow, or ~/.config/recall-brain/client.json exists. Otherwise everything below is fully local and nothing touches a network.

No index yet? Search anyway

If search reports the index does not exist (or doctor shows db exists=False), search the raw JSONL transcripts immediately while the first index builds:

rg -l -i "<terms>" ~/.claude/projects ~/.codex/sessions   # candidate files
ls -t <hits>                                              # newest first
rg -n -i -C3 "<terms>" <best-hit>                         # read the window

Choose terms and regular expressions based on the request. Exact identifiers are stronger evidence than general prose. If rg is unavailable, use grep -rl. Start the index in the background at the same time:

setsid nohup python3 scripts/recall.py index >/dev/null 2>&1 &

The first build over a large history can take many minutes; later runs are incremental and fast. Tell the user when an answer came from a cold scan of the raw transcripts. Once doctor shows a healthy db, switch to indexed search, which ranks results, explains the WHY for each match, and matches identifiers exactly.

First: pick the outcome

  1. Find / verify: answer "did we…", "which session…", "how did we…". Search, read the best hit's relevant window, answer with the session path as the receipt.
  2. Continue: resume in-progress work. This needs the session's tail plus its branch and worktree.
  3. Repeat: redo the same kind of task with fresh inputs. This needs the original driving prompts, verbatim.
  4. Skill-ify: turn the recipe into a reusable skill. This needs the steps that worked, minus one-off data. Chain into the harness's skill creator when one is installed; otherwise write the standard SKILL.md package directly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 217 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. 11d ago First seen · 217 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A d3c0acebd0d3

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recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository Parcha-ai/parcha-skills (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 2,493 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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