recall-rationale SKILL.md skillA

recall-rationale from tobihagemann/turbo is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/recall-rationale@git:20260930.42e6fe1

Pins git:20260930.42e6fe1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
tobihagemann/turbo
Path
claude/skills/recall-rationale/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260930.42e6fe1, committed Sep 30, 2026
Size
5,335 bytes
Repository stars
418
License
MIT

Recall why a past change was made by locating the Claude Code transcript that produced it. Use when the user asks to "recall the rationale", "find the rationale", "look up the rationale", "why did I do X", "why did we do X", "why was this changed", or "find the transcript for this commit".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Recall Rationale

Locate the Claude Code transcript that produced a given change and recover why it was made. Useful for answering reviewer questions, writing post-hoc explanations, or recovering forgotten context.

## Inputs

Accept any of:

- A commit SHA
- A file path, optionally with a line number (`<path>:<line>`)
- A reviewer question plus surrounding context (file and line)
- A passage with no commit behind it, because the project is not a git repository or the change is uncommitted

If only a file is given, `git blame` resolves the commit that last touched the line.

## Step 1: Resolve the Commit and Run the Script

Call `scripts/find_transcript.py` with either `--commit <sha>` or `--file <path>[:<line>]`. Pass `--cwd /path/to/repo` when searching a different repo than the current working directory.

```bash
python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/find_transcript.py --file <path>:<line>
python3 <skill-dir>/scripts/find_transcript.py --commit <sha>
```
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/recall-rationale@sha256:b28ff039491a72a6

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.42e6fe1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 30, 2026.

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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5335 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

tobihagemann/turbo · 418 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7et4ohrt4iryyu7a
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tobihagemann/turbo/recall-rationale
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b28ff039491a72a632663f60c54b1bf10299ddf4efe583d5a5207871ddb42b56

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