Contextify Total Recall

Search your conversation history to find past decisions, solutions, and discussions.

Output Format

Begin your response with:

Contextify Total Recall

Then provide the search results with citations.

Trigger phrases

•"use total recall to..."
•"search our conversation history"
•"find where we discussed..."
•"what did we decide about..."
•"look back in past sessions"
•"remember when we talked about..."

Preconditions

This skill requires the Contextify app and CLI. It works with Claude Code and Codex CLI.

•Check CLI availability:

bash

command -v contextify

•If contextify is missing:

Error response:

Contextify CLI not found.

DMG users: Open Contextify → Settings → CLI → "Install/Repair CLI"

App Store users: Run brew install PeterPym/contextify/contextify-query

For help: https://contextify.sh/help

Canonical loop

•Confirm database availability:

bash

contextify status --json

If database not found, respond:

Contextify database not found.

Please open Contextify once to initialize the database.

Download: https://contextify.sh/download

•Search for an anchor:

bash

contextify search "<query>" --project . --days 30 --limit 10 --json

Anchor selection guidance:

•If asking about earlier context (not "in this chat"), prefer anchors NOT from the active transcript.
•If CONTEXTIFY_CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ID is set, treat hits from that transcript as lower priority unless user explicitly wants current session.
•If transcript ID missing and multiple hits exist, avoid auto-selecting anchors from last 30 minutes.

•Retrieve context around the anchor:

bash

contextify context "<entry-uuid>" --before 10 --after 20 --project . --json

•Format response:

Contextify Total Recall

Found: [brief summary of what was found]

From: [date/time and project context]

[Key excerpts with citations]

Entry ID: <uuid> (for reference)

Error handling

Error	Response
`dbNotFound`	"Contextify database not found. Open Contextify to initialize. https://contextify.sh/download"
`dbProjectNotFound`	Check `details.suggestions`, offer alternatives
`featureUnavailable`	Explain limitation clearly, do not imply workarounds
`entryNotFound`	Re-search for a new anchor
`cliNotFound`	"Contextify CLI not found. See https://contextify.sh/help for installation."

Expanding search

If search returns 0 results:

•Widen --days (try 90 or 365)
•If not clearly about current repo, retry without --project .
•Use contextify projects --json to discover other projects
•Ask user to clarify what they're looking for

Delegating to researcher agent

Claude Code only: For complex multi-query searches, delegate to contextify-researcher agent:

code

Use the contextify-researcher agent to thoroughly search for [topic]

The researcher agent will perform multiple searches and synthesize results.

Codex CLI: Agent delegation is not available. Instead, run multiple searches manually and synthesize results yourself.