recall-reasoning

recall-reasoning is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tobihagemann/turbo. It costs 76 tokens per session (952 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for finding the Claude Code transcript that explains why a past code change was made. It can start from a commit, file, line, or reviewer question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to locate the relevant transcript and extract the reasoning behind a commit or a change to a specific file or line.
Why use it?
It helps recover implementation reasoning that is no longer obvious from the code or commit message.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to locate the relevant transcript and extract the reasoning behind a commit or a change to a specific file or line.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tobihagemann/turbo/recall-reasoning
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 tobihagemann/turbo --skill recall-reasoning
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tobihagemann/turbo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 952 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00076 $0.00952
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00476
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00190
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00095

Measured 11d ago against content hash d9a6cbd33365, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

recall-reasoning 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 1 executable file (scripts/find_transcript.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.

claude/skills/recall-reasoning/SKILL.md · 91 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Recall Reasoning

Locate the Claude Code transcript that produced a given change and extract the implementer's reasoning. Useful for answering reviewer questions, writing post-hoc explanations, or recovering forgotten context.

Inputs

Accept any of:

  • A commit SHA
  • A file path, optionally with a line number (<path>:<line>)
  • A reviewer question plus surrounding context (file and line)

If only a file is given, git blame resolves the commit that last touched the line.

Step 1: Resolve the Commit and Run the Script

Call scripts/find_transcript.py with either --commit <sha> or --file <path>[:<line>]. Pass --cwd /path/to/repo when searching a different repo than the current working directory.

python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/find_transcript.py --file <path>:<line>
python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/find_transcript.py --commit <sha>

The script:

  1. Resolves the commit via git rev-parse or git blame
  2. Enumerates directories under the effective Claude configuration home's projects/ tree and filters their transcripts by authoritative cwd records, covering path encoding, truncation, collisions, and subdirectory launches
  3. Ranks candidate transcripts whose mtime is within --window-days of the commit (default 14)
  4. Scores candidates by mentions of touched files and tool-use edits on them
  5. Extracts cleaned user prompts and substantive assistant text from the top candidates

The JSON output has status, commit, project_dir (the top candidate's directory when matched), project_dirs (directories with matching cwd records in the time window), and candidates with session_id, score, match_reasons, and excerpts.

Status values:

  • ok — candidates returned
  • no-commit — couldn't resolve a commit
  • no-transcripts — the effective Claude configuration home has no project transcript directories
  • no-match — transcripts exist but none match the touched files in the window

Step 2: Read and Synthesize

If status is ok:

Read the full file on GitHub · 91 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.

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 · 91 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A d9a6cbd33365

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recall-reasoning is a skill published in the GitHub repository tobihagemann/turbo (402 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 952 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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