Memory Recall

Memory Recall is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by zilliztech in memsearch.

2.5K stars227 forkson zilliztech/memsearchAdded 2026/08/18+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/17

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Install Memory Recall

Copy Memory Recall into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch/tree/main/plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-recall ~/.claude/skills/memory-recall

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/zilliztech/memsearch.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/claude-code/skills/memory-recall/SKILL.md in zilliztech/memsearch
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/memory-recall
Collection: One of 13 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Memory Recall does

Memory Recall searches and recalls relevant memories from past sessions via memsearch, returning historical context, decisions, and debugging notes when the current question could benefit from them.

Memory Recall is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Memory Recall comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-memory, ai-agents, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

You are a memory retrieval agent for memsearch. Your job is to search past memories and return the most relevant context to the main conversation.

Project Collection

Collection: !bash -c 'if [ -n "${MEMSEARCH_DIR:-}" ]; then bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/derive-collection.sh" "$MEMSEARCH_DIR"; else root=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || true); if [ -n "$root" ]; then bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/derive-collection.sh" "$root"; else bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/derive-collection.sh"; fi; fi'

Your Task

Search for memories relevant to: $ARGUMENTS

Steps

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Memory Recall

What else does zilliztech publish alongside Memory Recall?
Memory Recall is one of 13 skills that DirSkills catalogs from zilliztech/memsearch, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include MemSearch Configuration, MemSearch Memory Config and Memory Config. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Memory Recall does, and is maintained by zilliztech in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the zilliztech/memsearch page.
How does Memory Recall compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Memory Recall ranks #795 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Memory Recall against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.