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Recall — Development Context Briefing

Reconstructs where your work stands by mining intent, decisions and rejected approaches from git commit history.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 154⑂ 3AI score 8/10Last updated: May 7, 2026

What it does

  • Detects the current branch and its real parent branch (via upstream or nearest-branch commit distance), plus staged/unstaged changes.
  • Extracts contextual action lines from commit bodies: intent(...), decision(...), rejected(...), constraint(...), learned(...).
  • Adapts output to four scenarios: feature branch with commits, feature branch without commits, default branch, and default branch with uncommitted work.
  • Supports scope queries (recall auth, prefix-matching auth-tokens etc.) and action+scope queries (recall rejected(auth)) across all history.
  • Falls back to a subject-line activity roundup when no contextual commits exist.

Who it's for

  • Developers switching branches often and losing thread of what they were doing.
  • Anyone resuming work after a break or picking up a teammate's branch.
  • Teams tired of re-exploring approaches that were already rejected.

Examples

  1. Run with no arguments at session start: get branch state, active intent, decisions, constraints, learnings and in-progress files in a few dense lines.
  2. recall auth: grouped listing of every intent/decision/rejection/constraint/learning in the auth area, including sub-scopes.
  3. recall rejected(payments): chronological list of discarded payment approaches with reasons and originating commit subjects, so you don't repropose a dead end.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits.git /tmp/contextual-commits && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/contextual-commits/skills/recall ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r contextual-commits/skills/recall ~/.claude/skills/
  5. (Recommended) copy the whole set so you also get the commit-writing skill: cp -r contextual-commits/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
  6. Start Claude Code inside a git repository and ask for "recall", or a query like "recall auth" / "recall rejected(auth)".