What is total-recall:commands?

A skill for managing total-recall, a memory and knowledge-base system for coding-agent sessions.

Use it with total-recall commands to search or store memories, forget entries, inspect tiers, run evaluations, configure automatic behavior, and start a session.

It helps capture, find, store, remove, inspect, and organize information across the system's memory tiers instead of handling those tasks manually.

total-recall:commands — Skill for Claude Code by strvmarv: A skill for managing total-recall, a memory and knowledge-base…

Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add strvmarv/total-recall

Claude Code

/plugin install total-recall

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install total-recall, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills, 1 command, 1 agent, 3 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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.

README.md

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00061	$0.04379
Opus 5	$0.00030	$0.02190
Sonnet 5	$0.00012	$0.00876
Haiku 4.5	$0.00006	$0.00438

Measured 6d ago against content hash b23c9683628e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

total-recall:commands scanned grade B 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 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

Auto-configure Claude Code permissions so total-recall MCP tools are allowed (required for TUI fullscreen / `dontAsk` permission mode). **This subcommand is Claude Code-specific** — it automates `~/.claude/settings.json`

skills/commands/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED — before responding to the user's first message, call the total-recall session_start MCP tool. This syncs host imports and loads hot tier context. If session_start has already run server-side, the call returns cached results instantly.

If session_start is blocked by permissions (e.g., in TUI fullscreen / dontAsk mode), do NOT just report the error. Instead:

Tell the user: "total-recall session_start was blocked by permissions. Your host's tool-permission settings need to allow total-recall's MCP tools to function (the exact tool name depends on how your host namespaces MCP tools). You may need to adjust permissions if you want total-recall active this session."
On Claude Code, suggest running /total-recall:commands setup to auto-configure permissions; other hosts don't have an automated fix yet — point the user at their host's own MCP tool-permission config.
Proceed without memory features for this session — memory unavailability is degraded mode, not fatal

total-recall

Memory and knowledge base management for total-recall.

Automatic Behavior

These behaviors run automatically throughout the session. Tool calls will be visible to the user.

Session Start

Call the session_start MCP tool to sync imports and assemble hot tier context (this may already be cached — call it regardless to receive the context)
Announce startup using the returned data:
- Report tier summary: pinned, hot, warm, cold, KB counts from tierSummary
- Report storage backend from storage (e.g. "sqlite", "cortex", "postgres"). If it shows a fallback like "sqlite (cortex failed)", flag this prominently.
- If lastSessionAge is present, mention when the last session was
- If hints are present, briefly surface the most relevant ones
- If pinned_budget_pressure is present in hints, surface it prominently: pinned entries are eating over half the context budget — suggest unpinning or trimming entries
- Keep it to 2-3 lines max. Example:
  
  total-recall loaded — 2 pinned, 3 hot, 12 warm, 5 cold, 2 KB collections. Storage: cortex. Last session: 2 hours ago. Context: TODO list at docs/TODO.md; user prefers bundled PRs for refactors.
Use hints to inform your behavior throughout the session — they represent high-value memories like user corrections, preferences, and frequently accessed project context
Incorporate the full context field to inform your responses

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

compact.md 1.0 KB

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.

6d ago First seen · 332 lines · 61 tokens per session scan B b23c9683628e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

total-recall:commands is a skill published in the GitHub repository strvmarv/total-recall (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 4,379 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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