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Rekal

by rekal-dev

Rekal is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by rekal-dev in rekal-cli.

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Install Rekal
Copy Rekal 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/rekal-dev/rekal-cli/tree/main/cmd/rekal/cli/skill/skills/rekal ~/.claude/skills/rekal

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/rekal-dev/rekal-cli.git

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

In this catalog

Source file
cmd/rekal/cli/skill/skills/rekal/SKILL.md in rekal-dev/rekal-cli
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/rekal
Collection
One of 3 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 3475 skills

What Rekal does

Rekal routes questions to the right substrate in a repo with memory initialized: tree, knowledge, ledger, or map. Use it to recover current code, repo prose, or prior session intent without wasting tokens on the wrong source.

Rekal is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Rekal comes from a repository tagged agent-memory, ai-coding, claude-code, cli and code-context.

Documentation

README

Rekal — which substrate answers this?

Most wasted effort is the wrong substrate. Decide before you grep or recall.

Substrate Holds Tense Reach it with Answers
Tree current code now grep / read what does X do, where is it
Knowledge current prose now rekal "<q>" → Read HEAD convention / what we know
Ledger session intent past rekal "<q>", drill rekal query --session why, tried, rejected
Map structure — map.sh + workflow how is it built

Boundary

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

Frequently asked about Rekal

  • What else does rekal-dev publish alongside Rekal?

    Rekal is one of 3 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rekal-dev/rekal-cli, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Install Rekal and Rekal Init. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Rekal does, and is maintained by rekal-dev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rekal-dev/rekal-cli page.

  • How does Rekal compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Rekal ranks #3166 by stars among the 3475 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 Rekal against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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