wikibrain-recall

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UpdatedJuly 19, 2026 at 11:44

Recall past decisions and learnings from the WikiBrain memory vault — across all projects, its archive, and git history. Use when the user asks what they decided/learned/know about something, whether they've hit a problem before, or to search their memory.

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name	wikibrain-recall
description	Recall past decisions and learnings from the WikiBrain memory vault — across all projects, its archive, and git history. Use when the user asks what they decided/learned/know about something, whether they've hit a problem before, or to search their memory.

wikibrain-recall

VAULT = the repo this skill lives in (resolve the ~/.claude/skills/wikibrain-recall symlink; default ~/personal/WikiBrain). It holds every project's memory — search the whole vault; the current project is just one slug among all of them.

Work down the recall ladder until the question is answered:

Active — grep -ril "<term>" "$VAULT/memory" — current facts, indexed per project in MEMORY.md.
Archive — grep -ril "<term>" "$VAULT/archive" — compacted-out facts, true at the time they were archived.
History — git -C "$VAULT" log -S "<term>" --oneline then git show — content that was rewritten or deleted.

Try synonyms and related terms on each rung before moving past it. Done when every claim in the answer cites its source — file path (rungs 1–2) or commit (rung 3) — or all three rungs came up empty, which is itself the answer: it isn't in memory.

A fact that surfaced only on rung 2–3 but matters again is a candidate for re-promotion: offer to write it back as an active memory (format per GUIDELINES.md).

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name	wikibrain-recall
description	Recall past decisions and learnings from the WikiBrain memory vault — across all projects, its archive, and git history. Use when the user asks what they decided/learned/know about something, whether they've hit a problem before, or to search their memory.

wikibrain-recall

Work down the recall ladder until the question is answered:

Active — grep -ril "<term>" "$VAULT/memory" — current facts, indexed per project in MEMORY.md.
Archive — grep -ril "<term>" "$VAULT/archive" — compacted-out facts, true at the time they were archived.
History — git -C "$VAULT" log -S "<term>" --oneline then git show — content that was rewritten or deleted.

A fact that surfaced only on rung 2–3 but matters again is a candidate for re-promotion: offer to write it back as an active memory (format per GUIDELINES.md).