recall

recall is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vikasgrac/project-brain. It costs 40 tokens per session (540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for searching a project's Markdown knowledge vault for information from earlier work, decisions, or sessions. It first locates the vault and then searches its index, project pages, topics, and session notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for looking up past project decisions, implementation details, and historical context across one or more read-only knowledge vaults.
Why use it?
It helps recover details that are not present in the current conversation or its quick reference.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the project-brain plugin — 2 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

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/vikasgrac/project-brain/recall
Any agent
npx skills add vikasgrac/project-brain --skill recall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vikasgrac/project-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install project-brain, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for recall

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vikasgrac/project-brain/recall.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vikasgrac/project-brain/recall)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vikasgrac/project-brain/recall"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vikasgrac/project-brain/recall.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 540 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 $0.00040 $0.00540
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00270
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00108
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 3d ago against content hash 32fa68dc7ed9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

skills/recall/SKILL.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

Brain recall — deep lookup

The user's cross-project knowledge brain is a plain-Markdown vault. Resolve its location first: $BRAIN_DIR env var if set, else vault_path in ~/.config/claude-brain/config.json, else ~/claude-brain. Call it <vault> below.

If $BRAIN_READ_ALSO is set, it names one or more additional vaults (colon-separated) to search read-only after <vault>. This is how a session that captures into its own vault — a local-model or experimental setup — still gets the benefit of the main brain's history. Never write to a $BRAIN_READ_ALSO vault: no file edits, no new notes, no git commit. Treat it strictly as reference, and say which vault a fact came from when you report it.

Perform a thorough, layered lookup for the topic in $ARGUMENTS (or the current conversation's open question if no arguments). Work down the layers, stopping as soon as the question is fully answered:

  1. Index: read <vault>/MEMORY.md — identify which project(s)/topic(s) are relevant.
  2. Pages: read the relevant <vault>/projects/<name>.md and/or <vault>/topics/<name>.md.
  3. Session notes: if the page lacks detail, read recent <vault>/sessions/<project>/*.md notes (check date: frontmatter; newest first).
  4. Archive (episodic layer): for exact wording, commands, numbers, or anything the notes summarized away, grep the full transcripts: rg -i "<terms>" <vault>/archive/<project>/ — then read the matching section of the hit file.
  5. Cross-project: if the topic spans projects, repeat 2–4 for each; also rg across all of <vault>/archive/ when unsure where something happened.

Rules:

  • Never load whole directories — index first, then only the files the index/grep points to.
  • Prefer status: verified content over generated when they disagree, and say so if they conflict.
  • Report what you found AND where (file paths), so the user can follow up.
  • If nothing is found, say so explicitly and suggest which project's archive is most likely to need a manual look.
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. 3d ago First seen · 26 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 32fa68dc7ed9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

recall is a skill published in the GitHub repository vikasgrac/project-brain (2 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 540 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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