recall-before-claim SKILL.md skillA
recall-before-claim from bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/recall-before-claim@git:20260523.6463e9fPins git:20260523.6463e9f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop
- Path
skills/recall-before-claim/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260523.6463e9f, committed May 23, 2026
- Size
- 2,017 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,482
- License
- MIT
Forces a memory_search before the agent sends a message containing a factual assertion that has not yet been grounded this turn. Closes the citation-rate gap from ~40% to ~90%+.
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-before-claim
This skill installs a deterministic guard around the agent's outgoing messages. When the candidate message contains a factual-assertion shape ("X is Y", "A did B") and no memory tool (memory_search / deep_recall / knowledge_graph_search) has fired in the current turn, the interceptor requires a `memory_search` call against the assertion's subject before the message goes out.
## Why this exists
Bitterbot has a strong memory system, but it only helps the user if the agent actually consults it before making claims. In practice the agent skips memory recall a meaningful fraction of the time — relying on its in-context knowledge instead. This produces ungrounded assertions that the user has no easy way to spot.
The interceptor closes that loop without depending on the LLM remembering to do it.
## What you'll see
When this fires, the agent will run a `memory_search` first, integrate the result, and then send. You may notice slightly longer responses to factual questions; you should notice that the agent stops making confidently wrong statements about things it actually has memory of.
## How it decides not to fire
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/recall-before-claim@sha256:7787878d4ec821cfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260523.6463e9f, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_wug5pxtdwb5qhoed)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 23, 2026.
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Source
bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop · 2,482 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wug5pxtdwb5qhoed GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bitterbot-ai/bitterbot-desktop/recall-before-claim GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7787878d4ec821cfc26fa50b37774d9450689b3ad839975302e24725eb61477c
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.