Recall Forget

by davegoldblatt

Recall Forget is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by davegoldblatt in total-recall.

202 stars13 forkson davegoldblatt/total-recallAdded 2026/09/05Repository updated 2026/02/12

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ai-agentclaude-codeclaude-code-plugincontext-managementllmmemorypersistent-memory

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Install Recall Forget

Copy Recall Forget 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/davegoldblatt/total-recall/tree/main/skills/recall-forget ~/.claude/skills/recall-forget

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/davegoldblatt/total-recall.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/recall-forget/SKILL.md in davegoldblatt/total-recall
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/recall-forget
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3101 skills

What Recall Forget does

Recall Forget marks matching memory entries as superseded without deleting historical records. Use it when a stored fact is no longer current and needs to be kept with a supersession note.

Recall Forget is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Recall Forget comes from a repository tagged ai-agent, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, context-management and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Mark memory entries matching a query as superseded. Does not delete — preserves history.

Query to forget: $ARGUMENTS

What To Do

1. Search for Matching Entries

Search across all memory tiers for content matching the query:

memory/CLAUDE.local.md
memory/registers/*.md
memory/daily/*.md

2. Show Matches

Found [N] entries matching "[query]":

1. [CLAUDE.local.md] "Prefers dark mode for all mockups"
2. [registers/preferences.md] "Dark mode preference (confidence: high, 2026-01-10)"
3. [daily/2026-01-10.md] "[14:00] User said they prefer dark mode"

3. Confirm with User

Mark these as superseded? This won't delete them — they'll be annotated as no longer current.

[a]ll / select by number / [c]ancel

4. Execute

For each confirmed entry:

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

Commands Recall Forget provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/recall-forget

Frequently asked about Recall Forget

What else does davegoldblatt publish alongside Recall Forget?
Recall Forget is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from davegoldblatt/total-recall, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Recall Context, Recall Init IDs and Recall Log. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Recall Forget does, and is maintained by davegoldblatt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the davegoldblatt/total-recall page.
How does Recall Forget compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Recall Forget ranks #2836 by stars among the 3101 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 Recall Forget against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.