Recall Maintain

by davegoldblatt

Recall Maintain 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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Install Recall Maintain

Copy Recall Maintain 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-maintain ~/.claude/skills/recall-maintain

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

What Recall Maintain does

Recall Maintain runs pressure-based cleanup for working memory when entries exceed budget. It also checks stale entries, contradictions, and open loops, and archives superseded items.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Run maintenance on the memory system. Primary function: pressure-based demotion when working memory exceeds the word budget. Secondary: stale entry verification, contradiction checks, open loop review.

What To Do

0. Preconditions

Check for IDs first. Scan all managed files (CLAUDE.local.md, memory/registers/.md, memory/archive/**/.md) for single-line list item entries (lines starting with - , not inside code blocks, not placeholders).

If ANY managed entry lacks an ID (no ^tr[0-9a-f]{10} at end of line): refuse to run.

Cannot run maintain: [N] entries are missing IDs.
Run /recall-init-ids first to tag all entries.

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

Commands Recall Maintain provides

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

/recall-init-ids

Frequently asked about Recall Maintain

What else does davegoldblatt publish alongside Recall Maintain?
Recall Maintain is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from davegoldblatt/total-recall, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Recall Context, Recall Forget and Recall Init IDs. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Recall Maintain 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 Maintain compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Recall Maintain ranks #2837 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 Maintain against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.