Recover Context

by pchalasani

Recover Context is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by pchalasani in claude-code-tools.

2K stars128 forkson pchalasani/claude-code-toolsAdded 2026/08/18Repository updated 2026/08/17

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Install Recover Context

Copy Recover Context 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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/plugins/aichat/skills/recover-context ~/.claude/skills/recover-context

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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/aichat/skills/recover-context/SKILL.md in pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/recover-context
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Recover Context does

Recover Context pulls the last task, current state, pending items, and key decisions from the most recent parent session in a session lineage, delegating to sub-agents or a session-search skill to avoid loading large histories directly. Use it to resume prior work after a reset.

Recover Context is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Recover Context comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cli, cli-agent, code-agent and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

recover-context

Use this skill to extract context from a parent session when a session lineage is present (shown in the first user message of this conversation).

Instructions

Identify the most recent parent session from the lineage chain (the last file in the chronological list).
Use sub-agents to explore (to avoid bloating your own context):
- If you have the Task tool with subagent support, use the session-searcher subagent (subagent_type: session-searcher) to analyze the most recent session
- If sub-agents are NOT available, use the aichat:session-search skill instead

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

Frequently asked about Recover Context

What else does pchalasani publish alongside Recover Context?
Recover Context is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pchalasani/claude-code-tools, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Pattern, Agent Style and Avoid AI Writing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Recover Context does, and is maintained by pchalasani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pchalasani/claude-code-tools page.
How does Recover Context compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Recover Context ranks #877 by stars among the 2451 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 Recover Context against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.