# recall

Full-text search across past Claude Code, Codex, pi and Grok sessions with BM25 ranking. Useful when you need to remember what you already discussed with an agent.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 579 installs · ★ 146
- Author: arjunkmrm
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/arjunkmrm/recall/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-07-28
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/arjunkmrm-recall

## What it does

The skill indexes four sources: `~/.claude/projects/` for Claude Code, `~/.codex/sessions/` for Codex, `~/.pi/agent/sessions/` for pi, and `~/.grok/sessions/**/chat_history.jsonl` for Grok. Only user and assistant messages make it into the index — tool calls, thinking blocks and state snapshots are skipped. The database lives at `~/.recall.db` on SQLite FTS5.

Queries follow FTS5 syntax: exact phrases in quotes, `AND`, `OR`, `NOT`, and prefix matching with an asterisk. Japanese, Chinese and Korean text falls back to trigram matching, English uses Porter stemming. You can also skip the query entirely and get a plain list of sessions in the window, sorted by recency.

The first run indexes everything in a few seconds; later runs are incremental. Upgrading from 0.3.x, 0.4.x or 0.2.x means running `--reindex` once, otherwise the newer sources and the CJK index stay missing. Python 3 is required — the script runs as `python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arjunkmrm/recall --skill recall -a claude-code
```
```bash
npx skills add arjunkmrm/recall --skill arjunkmrm-recall -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/arjunkmrm-recall/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/arjunkmrm-recall/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arjunkmrm/recall --skill arjunkmrm-recall -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/arjunkmrm-recall/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arjunkmrm/recall --skill arjunkmrm-recall -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/arjunkmrm-recall/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install arjunkmrm/recall arjunkmrm-recall
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/arjunkmrm-recall/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arjunkmrm/recall --skill arjunkmrm-recall -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/arjunkmrm/recall
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/arjunkmrm-recall/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add arjunkmrm/recall --skill arjunkmrm-recall -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/arjunkmrm/recall/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- recall which approach you settled on last session
- list sessions for one project within a date window
- narrow history down to Codex or pi only
- read the raw transcript of a matched session
- resume a session with `--resume` or `--session`

## Example prompts
- search my past sessions for what we discussed about bufferStore
- list every pi session from the last week
- find the exact phrase "ACP protocol" in my Claude Code history

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: recall
description: >
  Search past Claude Code, Codex, pi and Grok sessions. Triggers: /recall, "search old conversations",
  "find a past session", "recall a previous conversation", "search session history",
  "what did we discuss", "remember when we"
metadata:
  author: arjunkmrm
  version: "0.4.1"
  license: MIT
---

# /recall — Search Past Claude, Codex, pi & Grok Sessions

Search all past Claude Code, Codex, pi and Grok sessions using full-text search with BM25 ranking.

## Usage

```bash
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py [QUERY] [--project PATH] [--days N] [--source claude|codex|pi|grok] [--limit N] [--reindex]
```

## Examples

```bash
# List every session in the last day (no text search)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py --days 1

# List every pi session in the last week
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py --days 7 --source pi

# Simple keyword search
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "bufferStore"

# Phrase search (exact match)
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py '"ACP protocol"'

# Boolean query
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "rust AND async"

# Prefix search
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "buffer*"

# Filter by project and recency
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "state machine" --project ~/my-project --days 7

# Search only Claude Code sessions
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "buffer" --source claude

# Search only Codex sessions
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "buffer" --source codex

# Search only pi sessions
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "buffer" --source pi

# Search only Grok sessions
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py "buffer" --source grok

# Force reindex
python3 ~/.claude/skills/recall/scripts/recall.py --reindex "test"
```

## Query Syntax (FTS5)

- **Words**: `bufferStore` — matches stemmed variants (e.g., "discussing" matches "discuss")
- **Phrases**: `"ACP protocol"` — exact phrase match
- **Boolean**: `rust AND async`, `tauri OR electron`, `NOT deprecated`
- **Prefix**: `buffer*` — matches bufferStore, bufferMap, etc.
- **Combined**: `"state machine" AND test`
- **CJK**: `issue化` — automatically uses trigram matching for Japanese/Chinese/Korean text

## After Finding a Match

To resume a session, `cd` into the project directory and use the appropriate command:

```bash
# Claude Code sessions [claude]
cd /path/to/project
claude --resume SESSION_ID

# Codex sessions [codex]
cd /path/to/project
codex resume SESSION_ID

# Grok sessions [grok]
```bash
grok --resume SESSION_ID
```

# Pi sessions [pi]
cd /path/to/project
pi --session SESSION_ID         # full or partial id; pi resolves prefix matches
```
````
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