---
name: Recall Promote
slug: recall-promote
category: AI Engineering
description: Recall Promote reviews recent daily logs and suggests entries to promote into CLAUDE.local.md or memory registers. Use it when turning recurring decisions, preferences, and project state into durable context.
github: "https://github.com/davegoldblatt/total-recall/tree/main/skills/recall-promote"
language: Shell
stars: 202
forks: 13
install: "npx degit https://github.com/davegoldblatt/total-recall/tree/main/skills/recall-promote ~/.claude/skills/recall-promote"
installs_to: ~/.claude/skills/recall-promote
source_path: skills/recall-promote/SKILL.md
collection_size: 10
category_size: 3101
collection_url: "https://dirskills.com/collections/davegoldblatt/total-recall"
added: 2026-09-05T05:30:11.625Z
last_synced: 2026-09-05T05:30:11.625Z
canonical_url: "https://dirskills.com/skills/recall-promote"
---

# Recall Promote

Recall Promote reviews recent daily logs and suggests entries to promote into CLAUDE.local.md or memory registers. Use it when turning recurring decisions, preferences, and project state into durable context.

**Install:**

```bash
npx degit https://github.com/davegoldblatt/total-recall/tree/main/skills/recall-promote ~/.claude/skills/recall-promote
```

## README

Review recent daily logs and surface candidates for promotion to registers or CLAUDE.local.md.

## What To Do

### 1. Gather Recent Logs

Read all daily log files from the last 7 days (memory/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md).

If no daily logs exist, tell the user:
```
No daily logs found. Use /recall-write or /recall-log to start capturing.
```

### 2. Identify Promotion Candidates

Scan each entry and evaluate:

**Promote to CLAUDE.local.md if:**
- Active commitment or deadline that affects every session
- Behavioral preference that changes default output
- Current project state that's essential context

**Promote to a register if:**
- Decision with rationale → decisions.md
- Person context → people.md
- Technical choice → tech-stack.md
- Preference with staying power → preferences.md
- Project milestone or state change → projects.md

**Skip if:**
- Already captured in a register or CLAUDE.local.md
- One-off observation with no future impact
- Debugging detail or transient state

### 3. Present Candidates

For each candidate, show:

```
Candidates for promotion:

1. [2026-02-03] "Project deadline moved to March 15"
   → Suggest: CLAUDE.local.md (active commitment)

2. [2026-02-02] "Prefers tabs over spaces, 2-space indent"
   → Suggest: registers/preferences.md

3. [2026-02-01] "Decided to use Postgres over SQLite for scale"
   → Suggest: registers/decisions.md
```

### 4. Ask User

For each candidate, ask the user what to do:
- **Promote** — write to the suggested destination
- **Register** — write to a different register (ask which one)
- **Skip** — don't promote, leave in daily log
- **Promote all** — accept all suggestions at once

### 5. Execute

For each promoted item:
1. Write to the destination with proper metadata (claim, confidence, evidence, last_verified)
2. Do NOT remove from daily log (daily logs are append-only history)
3. Check for contradictions with existing entries before writing
4. **Assign a durable ID**: For single-line list items promoted to CLAUDE.local.md or registers, append a `^tr` ID (10 random lowercase hex chars). Create or update `memory/.recall/metadata.json` with an entry for the new ID (`created_at`, `last_reviewed_at` = now, `pinned: false`, `snoozed_until: null`, `status: "active"`, `tier` from destination file). Create `memory/.recall/` directory if needed. Write metadata.json with sorted keys.

### 6. Summary

```
Promotion complete:
  → 2 entries promoted to registers
  → 1 entry promoted to CLAUDE.local.md
  → 1 entry skipped

CLAUDE.local.md word count: [N]/1500
```

Warn if CLAUDE.local.md is approaching the 1500 word limit.