OwnMem Recall

OwnMem Recall is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by grpcer in ownmem.

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Install OwnMem Recall

Copy OwnMem 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/grpcer/ownmem/tree/main/plugins/ownmem/skills/recall ~/.claude/skills/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/grpcer/ownmem.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ownmem/skills/recall/SKILL.md in grpcer/ownmem
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/recall
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2793 skills

What OwnMem Recall does

OwnMem Recall checks a repository's local memory before code changes and helps keep it current. Use it to look up past debugging lessons, project-specific conventions, or cross-session context stored in .ownmem/.

OwnMem Recall is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. OwnMem Recall comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, ai-agent-memory, ai-memory, bm25 and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

OwnMem recall and daily use

OwnMem is this repository's local, deterministic memory. Recall runs offline — no model calls, no network, no query-time token cost — and every memory is plain Markdown inside the repository.

If the repository has no .ownmem/ directory, OwnMem is not installed here; use the init skill from this plugin first.

Recall before changing code

npx ownmem recall -- "problem, path, or symbol"

For natural-language symptoms, pass two or three phrasings in one call and let the deterministic fusion rank them:

npx ownmem recall --multi -- "symptom in plain words" "root-cause term" "english symbol"

Open a hit's full topic file before relying on it, then verify against live code: memories record what was true when they were written.

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

Frequently asked about OwnMem Recall

What else does grpcer publish alongside OwnMem Recall?
OwnMem Recall is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from grpcer/ownmem, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include OwnMem, OwnMem and OwnMem Console. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way OwnMem Recall does, and is maintained by grpcer in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the grpcer/ownmem page.
How does OwnMem Recall compare to other AI Engineering skills?
OwnMem Recall ranks #2523 by stars among the 2793 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 OwnMem Recall against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.