Recall Search

by davegoldblatt

Recall Search 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 Search

Copy Recall Search 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-search ~/.claude/skills/recall-search

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

What Recall Search does

Recall Search searches working memory, registers, daily logs, and archive files for relevant information. Use it when you need to find prior decisions, preferences, people, or past discussions.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Search across all memory tiers for relevant information.

Query: $ARGUMENTS

Search Protocol

Search in this order (narrow to wide):

1. Working Memory (CLAUDE.local.md)

Already loaded — check if the answer is here first.

2. Registers (memory/registers/*.md)

Search all register files for content matching the query:

people.md
projects.md
decisions.md
preferences.md
tech-stack.md
open-loops.md
Any other .md files in registers/

Commands Recall Search provides

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

/recall-write

Frequently asked about Recall Search

What else does davegoldblatt publish alongside Recall Search?
Recall Search 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 Search 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 Search compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Recall Search ranks #2839 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 Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.