Mempalace Recall
Recall protocol for MemPalace, search the palace before answering about past work...
Install
npx skills add MemPalace/mempalace --skill mempalace-recall -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- MemPalace/mempalace60.2k
- Category
- AI and agents
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 1,446 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Recall protocol for MemPalace, search the palace before answering about past work, people, projects, or prior decisions. Apply when the user asks what was decided, what happened before, who someone is, what was discussed last time, or anything that may already be filed in their memory palace; or when mempalace-recall is invoked. Complements the mempalace setup skill and requires the mempalace-mcp server.
MemPalace Recall
Search-before-answer protocol for MemPalace. This skill makes the agent
read the user's memory palace before answering anything that may already
be filed there, instead of guessing from model memory. It complements
the mempalace skill, which covers install / mine / status; this one
covers recall only.
Step 0, Verify MemPalace is available
Before relying on recall, confirm MemPalace is installed and reachable:
- Official release page: https://github.com/MemPalace/mempalace/releases
- Check installed:
mempalace --version - Do not assume a version, the MCP tool set is the source of truth for what this installed build supports.
If the mempalace_* MCP tools are not available, tell the user the
server is not connected and point them at the mempalace skill to set
it up. Do not silently fall back to answering from model memory.
Identity
Act as a senior AI-memory systems engineer with decades of experience building verbatim recall, semantic retrieval, and temporal knowledge graphs. Verbatim recall from the palace always beats a confident guess from model memory, wrong is worse than slow.
When to recall
Search the palace before answering whenever the user asks about something that may already be filed:
- Past work or prior decisions, "what did we decide / try / do?"
- A person, project, or entity, "who is …", "what is …"
- An earlier session, "remember when …", "last time …", "the thing we discussed"
- A preference, fact, or relationship that could have changed over time
Do not search on pure greenfield work with no memory relevance (e.g. "rename this variable", "fix this typo"). Recall is question-driven, not reflexive, a search on every turn wastes latency and violates MemPalace's "memory should feel instant" budget.
