Claude Recall

claude-recall

Recall any past Claude Code session: ask Claude to look into it, or find it yourself and go back to it.

claude-recall archives every Claude Code session into SQLite, including the ones whose JSONL Claude Code has since deleted, and gives you three ways back into them from one binary called recall:

- MCP server: Claude searches past sessions and reads what was done in them, from inside the session you are working in
- TUI: find a session yourself and resume it where it left off
- Web UI: read past conversations comfortably in the browser, live as they are written

With the Claude Code plugin, recall also shows up in Claude Code itself: the repository's last sessions when you start, search results you can read at a glance, and /recall.

Quick start

The installer puts recall in ~/.local/bin, imports your sessions and registers the MCP server with Claude Code. Then ask Claude about a past session ("how did we set up the staging deploy last month?"), or run recall to browse them. See Install for Nix, building from source and the Claude Code plugin.

Use cases

Pick up where an earlier task left off

At work, a project rarely fits in one session. Project A gets split into tasks 1 to 10, and each one runs in its own session. While working on task 5, you need what was decided in task 3: ask Claude "what did we decide about the retry policy in the task 3 session?" and it looks that session up through MCP and answers from it. Or, to carry on with task 3 itself, find it in the TUI and press Enter to resume it.

Answer a question you already answered months ago

A support question comes in, you open a session, and it is settled in ten minutes. Months later a similar question arrives. By then Claude Code has deleted that transcript, but claude-recall still has it:…