| name | np-core-recall |
| description | Pull episodic working-memory themes ("what we did / decided / where we left off") from nervepack's episodic/ layer on demand. Use when the user says "/recall", "what did we do on X", "remind me where we left off on Y", or wants prior-session context that wasn't auto-injected. Read-only — episodic is the lowest-authority layer; durable skills/sources/wiki override it. |
recall
The on-demand counterpart to the automatic UserPromptSubmit injection
(engine/setup/episodic-recall.sh). Auto-injection only fires on a session's first
couple of prompts and only on keyword hits; /recall lets you pull any theme,
any time.
Trigger phrases
/recall, /recall <topic-or-keywords>- "what did we do on X", "where did we leave off on Y"
- "pull up our prior context about Z"
Steps
1. Locate candidate themes
Episodic lives in the content overlay under memory/episodic/, not the
engine repo. Resolve the roots (merge-aware, team > personal):
source ~/Code/nervepack/engine/setup/np-layer-lib.sh
np_layer_roots episodic
For each root: ls <root>/*.md (available themes) and sed -n '1,80p' <root>/INDEX.md (topic | keywords index). Match the user's query against topic
slugs and the keywords column. If they gave no query, list the most recently
updated themes and ask which.
2. Read the matching theme(s)
Read <root>/<topic>.md for the best match(es). Prefer the most recent
entries; mention the ## Rolled-up summary block if older context is relevant.
3. Present
Summarize what was done / decided / where it was left off, citing the file
path. Flag the authority level: episodic context is working narrative and
may be stale — if it conflicts with a skills/, sources/, or wiki/ page,
the durable layer wins. Say so when relevant.
What this skill does NOT do
- Does not write to the episodic layer (capture + the episodic-maintain agent own writes).
- Does not promote anything to
skills/ — if a recalled entry is actually a
durable rule, route it through [[np-core-contribute]].
- Does not surface secrets; if a theme somehow contains one, redact in your
reply and note it for cleanup.
