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.
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/recall-rationale@git:20260930.42e6fe1Pins 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
codex/skills/recall-rationale/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260930.42e6fe1, committed Sep 30, 2026
- Size
- 4,036 bytes
- Repository stars
- 418
- License
- MIT
Recall why a past change was made, drawing on Codex session history when available and falling back to commit diff and surrounding code. 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 Recover why a change was made. Prefer Codex session history when it can be found; otherwise derive the explanation from git history and current code. ## Inputs Accept any of: - A commit SHA - A file path, optionally with a line number (`<path>:<line>`) - A reviewer question plus surrounding context - 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, use `git blame` to resolve the commit that last touched the line. ## Step 1: Resolve the Commit Resolve the target commit: ```bash git rev-parse <sha> git blame -L <line>,<line> -- <path> ``` Collect the commit subject, changed files, and relevant diff: ```bash git show --stat --oneline <sha> git show -- <path> ``` When there is no commit to resolve, because the project is not a git repository or `git blame` finds no commit for the line (it reports `Not Committed Yet`, or fails because the file is untracked), skip the git commands and carry a distinctive stretch of the passage's current text into Step 2, taken from a single line and free of quotes and backslashes, which session files store escaped. …
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How to install
mdr add tobihagemann/turbo/recall-rationale@sha256:0d7d467e79af1463The 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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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
tobihagemann/turbo · 418 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-23 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_i45ujxdjdtzypr7c GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tobihagemann/turbo/recall-rationale GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0d7d467e79af1463dfaefcce0e135b2c3f10c72b133aa6daaf8b0fb91ab023cd
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