recall

Recall fixes the annoying part of working with Claude Code across sessions: re-explaining your project every time you come back. It captures what happened in a session, the prompts, the responses, the files you touched, the commands you ran, and boils it down to a short summary the agent can read next time to pick up where you left off. MIT licensed, free, and it runs entirely on your machine.

The clever bit is that it summarizes locally with classic text-ranking algorithms, TF-IDF and TextRank, so there is no extra LLM call and no token cost for the summary itself. It drops two files in a .recall/ folder: an append-only history log and an auto-generated context digest with your goal, key files, and next steps. It even redacts common secret patterns before writing anything to disk. No setup, works offline.

This is a Claude Code plugin, not an MCP server, so it slots into the workflow without extra infrastructure. Solo developers juggling several projects get the most out of it: a 1 to 2K token digest is far cheaper than pasting your whole project history back in, and it works with whatever Claude subscription you already have.

The catch is that a TF-IDF summary is compression, not understanding. It surfaces what looks important by word frequency, which is usually enough to orient the agent but occasionally misses the one detail that mattered. Skim the context file before you trust it to have remembered everything.