Ccc Recall

$ccc-recall — Cross-Session Memory Search

Your past sessions are a goldmine. This skill indexes it.

Optional integration: If you have claude-mem (a separate AGPL-licensed tool by @thedotmack) installed via npm install claude-mem, $ccc-recall will use it for vector search across sessions. CC Commander does NOT bundle claude-mem — install separately or skip; CCC's built-in grep + file-based recall works without it.

When to use

• "Didn't we solve this last month?" — search instead of re-solving
• "What did I decide about {auth provider / db vendor / testing lib}?" — pull the decision
• "When did {bug} first appear?" — find the session it landed in
• "Which file had that specific comment about the edge case?" — grep across sessions

Not for

• Current session state — that's $ccc-memory (curated) or $ccc-save-session (snapshot)
• Code search across the repo — use Grep tool directly
• Documentation lookup — use context7 MCP or $ccc-docs

Three-layer lookup

Run them in order of fastest-first:

Layer 1 — Session transcripts (~/.claude/sessions/*.tmp)

File-based. Fast grep:

grep -l "${keyword}" ~/.claude/sessions/*.tmp | head -5

Returns session files whose summary mentions the keyword. Each is a structured save from $ccc-save-session with sections for What Worked / Didn't Work / Decisions.

Layer 2 — memory/ curated notes

If project has a memory/ dir (from $ccc-memory):

grep -rn "${keyword}" memory/

Higher signal than transcripts — you curated these specifically because they mattered.

Layer 3 — Full-text search across all sessions

If you need deeper semantic matches beyond Layer 1-2, search the full session corpus with glob:

grep -rn "${keyword}" ~/.claude/sessions/ --include="*.tmp" --include="*.md"

This indexes all session transcripts and archived notes. Best for semantic matches ("the time we debated SSE vs WebSocket") vs literal keyword, using native grep with context flags.

Process

1. Parse the question — extract 2-3 keywords + time window ("last month", "Q4", "since shipping v4")
2. Run Layer 1 grep — if 1-5 hits, read the most recent, answer
3. If no hits, Layer 2 — curated notes
4. If still no hits, Layer 3 — full-text grep across all sessions
5. Summarize findings — always cite the source file + date so Kevin can verify
6. Offer to save the recall — if this turned out to be a common question, suggest $ccc-memory entry for next time

Example

User: "What did we decide about the MCP bundling split?"

1. Layer 1 grep for "mcp bundling" in ~/.claude/sessions/*.tmp → finds 2026-04-23-commander-blitz-session.tmp
2. Read that file's "Decisions" section
3. Answer: "On 2026-04-23 during the post-beta.10 hardening review, R1/R5/R8 flagged 9 auto-bundled MCPs as install-day failure. Decision: trim to 2 credential-free (context7 + sequential-thinking), move rest to opt-in via $ccc-connect. Shipped in commit 3cba64d."
4. Offer: "This would make a good $ccc-memory entry as memory/decisions/mcp-bundling.md — want me to write it?"

Depends on

• ~/.claude/sessions/ directory (created by $ccc-save-session)
• Optional: memory/ in project root (created by $ccc-memory)
• Native bash grep (no external dependencies)

Adapted from thedotmack/claude-mem (MIT license). Attribution required per MIT terms.

⚙️ Fable contract: plan before build · verifier ≠ worker · prove before alarm · loops need gates · leave durable state — rules/fable-method.md