recall

Fan-out search across all memory sources when context is unclear or vaguely referenced. Triggers on: 'from earlier', 'remember when', 'what we discussed', 'that thing with', 'the conversation about', 'did we ever', 'what happened with', 'you mentioned', 'we talked about', 'earlier today', 'last session', 'the other day', or any vague reference to past context that needs resolution before the agent can act.

Quality

90%

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Low

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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A tight, highly actionable skill body that gives executable commands for each source, a clear workflow, and honest failure handling without over-explaining. Minor workflow-clarity gap is the lack of explicit validation feedback loops, though the operation is not inherently destructive or batch-oriented.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Lean body of bullets and commands that assumes Claude's competence; no padding or explanation of concepts Claude already knows, and every section earns its place.	5 / 5
Actionability	Fully executable, copy-paste-ready commands for every source with flags and limits, plus a concrete keyword-extraction example ('Those photos from earlier' → photos, images, media, telegram) covering the common cases.	5 / 5
Workflow Clarity	Clear numbered workflow (extract → fan out → synthesize → present → handle-nothing) with mandatory timeouts and honest-failure guidance, but the synthesize/present steps lack the explicit validate→fix→retry granularity of the top anchor.	4 / 5
Progressive Disclosure	Well-organized with clear section headers and numbered fan-out subsections, no nested references, and appropriately self-contained since the skill needs no external reference files (only unrelated logo assets exist).	5 / 5
	Total	19 / 20 Passed

Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong description that pairs a concrete action with explicit, natural trigger phrases and a catch-all, leaving little ambiguity about when to invoke it. The only gap is that the description names a single action rather than multiple distinct capabilities.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain (memory recall) and one concrete action ('Fan-out search across all memory sources'), but does not enumerate multiple distinct concrete actions in the description itself.	3 / 5
Completeness	Explicitly answers both 'what' (fan-out search across memory sources) and 'when' with concrete enumerated trigger phrases via the 'Triggers on:' clause, satisfying the explicit-trigger-guidance requirement.	5 / 5
Trigger Term Quality	Comprehensive list of natural trigger phrases users actually say ('from earlier', 'remember when', 'what we discussed', 'that thing with', 'did we ever') plus synonyms and a catch-all for vague references.	5 / 5
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Distinct niche (vague past-context resolution) with specific triggers that minimize overlap, though 'fan-out search across all memory sources' is somewhat broad at the domain edge.	4 / 5
	Total	17 / 20 Passed

Validation

93%

Warnings & errors only

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

Criteria	Description	Result
frontmatter_unknown_keys	Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata	Warning

	Total	15 / 16 Passed

Repository: joelhooks/joelclaw
Path: skills/recall/SKILL.md
Commit: d952451

Reviewed: 4 days ago

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