recall

# Recall Before you start or resume work, rebuild the user's recent working context and hand back a tight capsule. Companion to `pstack` Session pickup (one specific prior chat) and `memory-systems` (designing persistent agent memory). This skill loads working context across recent chats and the shared record. ## Authorized Scope Act only within the user's request and existing approval; loading this skill grants no new authority. Keep report-only requests report-only, honor the caller's target, host, provider, and cost limits, ask before expanding scope, and forward these limits to delegates. ## Contract Inputs: - An optional topic and time window (default last 7 days) - The active workspace only Outputs: - A brief: capsule, tagged threads, recurring problems, next move Creates/Modifies: - None External Side Effects: - Read-only git / `gh` and whatever evidence connectors `why` uses Confirmation Required: - None Delegates To: - `why` investigators for the shared record - Recommend `pstack` Session pickup when the ask is one specific prior chat ## Steps 1. Classify. One specific prior chat is Session pickup. A full state capsule already in the message skips mining. 2. Lock the scope. Pin the window, the topic, and the workspace. State the scope back. Never quietly turn "all" into "recent N". Never read another project's transcripts without being asked. 3. Fan out across chat history. Spawn parallel subagents on the fast cheap tier. Order candidates by real modification time. Each returns topic, goal, decisions, open threads, struggles, and artifacts, citing the chat id the harness uses. 4. Sweep the shared record whenever the topic names a feature, file, subsystem, or bug. Hand it to `why` investigators, steered to current state, what was tried, and what users still report. 5. Verify against live state with `git` and `gh`. 6. Write the brief to the contract below. ## Output contract - **Capsule.** At most 5 bullets. - **Threads.** One line each, prefixed with exactly one status tag: `[merged #N]`, `[open PR #N]`, `[in flight <branch>]`, `[verified, uncommitted]`, `[reverted #N]`, or `[planned, not started]`. - **Problems.** At most 5 recurring ones. - **Next move.** The single most useful next action. Apply `references/prose-slop.md` from the selected `deslop` skill directory. Sanitize private context before any public output. ## Recall procedure Read [recall procedure](references/recall-procedure.md) when running this workflow. Apply the authorized scope and mode of this entry point to every step. Resolve other skills through this distribution’s active catalog; resolve resources relative to the installed skill directory.