memory-recall

memory-recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from star-ga/mind-mem. It costs 0 tokens per session (567 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A search tool for finding information across structured memory files, including past decisions, events, tasks, people, projects, and tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before making decisions, when recalling project history, or when investigating related decisions and tasks with ranked results and excerpts.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to manually scan many files when looking for earlier context or related work. It can also use cross-references to find connected items.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 maintenance/recall.py --query "authentication" --workspace "${MIND_MEM_WORKSPACE:-.}".

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/star-ga/mind-mem
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/star-ga/mind-mem/memory-recall

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00567
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00283
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00057

Measured 6d ago against content hash 505c7f683c93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

memory-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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/memory-recall/SKILL.md · 53 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 53 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search across all structured memory files. Default backend: BM25 scoring with Porter stemming and domain-aware query expansion. Optional: graph-based cross-reference boosting (--graph). Optional: vector/embedding backend (configure in mind-mem.json). Returns ranked results with block ID, type, score, excerpt, and file path.

When to Use

  • Before making decisions (check if a similar decision already exists)
  • When asked about past events, decisions, or tasks
  • To find related context for a current problem
  • To check what's known about a person, project, or tool
  • To explore connections between decisions and tasks (--graph)

How to Run

Basic Search

python3 maintenance/recall.py --query "authentication" --workspace "${MIND_MEM_WORKSPACE:-.}"

Graph-Boosted Search (cross-reference neighbor discovery)

python3 maintenance/recall.py --query "database" --graph --workspace "${MIND_MEM_WORKSPACE:-.}"

JSON Output (for programmatic use)

python3 maintenance/recall.py --query "auth" --workspace "${MIND_MEM_WORKSPACE:-.}" --json --limit 5

Active Items Only

python3 maintenance/recall.py --query "deadline" --workspace "${MIND_MEM_WORKSPACE:-.}" --active-only

What It Searches

  • decisions/DECISIONS.md — All decisions
  • tasks/TASKS.md — All tasks
  • entities/projects.md — Projects
  • entities/people.md — People
  • entities/tools.md — Tools
  • entities/incidents.md — Incidents
  • intelligence/CONTRADICTIONS.md — Known contradictions
  • intelligence/DRIFT.md — Drift detections
  • intelligence/SIGNALS.md — Captured signals

Scoring

Results are ranked by BM25 relevance (k1=1.2, b=0.75) with:

  • Stemming — "queries" matches "query", "deployed" matches "deployment"
  • Query expansion — "auth" expands to include "authentication", "login", "oauth", "jwt"
  • Recency — Recent items score higher
  • Active status — Active items get 1.2x boost
  • Priority — P0/P1 items get 1.1x boost
  • Graph neighbors — With --graph, blocks connected via cross-references to keyword matches get a 0.3x boost (tagged [graph] in output)

Read the full file on GitHub · 53 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. 6d ago First seen · 53 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 505c7f683c93

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memory-recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository star-ga/mind-mem (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 567 tokens. 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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