Recall — Development Context Briefing
Reconstructs where your work stands by mining intent, decisions and rejected approaches from git commit history.
Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 147⑂ 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
- Run with no arguments at session start: get branch state, active intent, decisions, constraints, learnings and in-progress files in a few dense lines.
recall auth: grouped listing of every intent/decision/rejection/constraint/learning in the auth area, including sub-scopes.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 · · ·
Try it now, no install
Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.
Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits/HEAD/skills/recall/SKILL.md What I want: (describe your task here)
If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.
↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.
Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
- Download the ZIP with the button below.
- In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
- Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
Install in Claude Code
Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code
Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart. Copy the skills/recall folder from the GitHub repo berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits into my ~/.claude/skills/recall/. When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.
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.
- Open a terminal.
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits.git - Create the skills folder:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills - Copy the skill:
cp -r contextual-commits/skills/recall ~/.claude/skills/ - (Recommended) copy the whole set so you also get the commit-writing skill:
cp -r contextual-commits/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/ - Start Claude Code inside a git repository and ask for "recall", or a query like "recall auth" / "recall rejected(auth)".
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT