Total Recall Initialization

by davegoldblatt

Total Recall Initialization is an Automation 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 Total Recall Initialization

Copy Total Recall Initialization 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-init ~/.claude/skills/recall-init

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-init/SKILL.md in davegoldblatt/total-recall
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/recall-init
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1956 skills

What Total Recall Initialization does

Total Recall Initialization scaffolds the project memory directories, registers, and working memory file for Claude Code. Use it when setting up persistent memory and session continuity in a new project.

Total Recall Initialization is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Total Recall Initialization comes from a repository tagged ai-agent, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, context-management and llm.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Initialize the Total Recall memory system in this project.

What To Do

Create the following directory structure and files. If any already exist, skip them (do not overwrite).

Directory Structure

memory/
├── SCHEMA.md
├── daily/
├── registers/
│   ├── _index.md
│   ├── people.md
│   ├── projects.md
│   ├── decisions.md
│   ├── preferences.md
│   ├── tech-stack.md
│   └── open-loops.md
└── archive/
    ├── projects/
    └── daily/

Plus at the project root:

CLAUDE.local.md — working memory (auto-loaded, gitignored)

CLAUDE.local.md (Working Memory)

If CLAUDE.local.md does not exist, create it:

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

Commands Total Recall Initialization provides

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

/recall-write
/recall-search
/recall-status
/recall-promote

Frequently asked about Total Recall Initialization

What else does davegoldblatt publish alongside Total Recall Initialization?
Total Recall Initialization 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 Total Recall Initialization 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 Total Recall Initialization compare to other Automation skills?
Total Recall Initialization ranks #1772 by stars among the 1956 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. 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 Total Recall Initialization against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.