Enforces Law 1 (Research Before Executing) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline. Makes past sessions first-class research material by searching the observation log with BM25 ranking, so 'have I hit this before?' is answerable before re-deriving a fix or repeating a mistake.
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What the file says
# Recall — Episodic Search Over Past Sessions
Law 1 says research before executing. The cheapest research is your own history: the exact error you are staring at may have been solved three sessions ago. `observations.jsonl` already records every tool call, but an append-only log is not searchable. Recall turns that log into a ranked, queryable memory.
## When to Activate
- Before tackling a problem that feels familiar ("haven't I seen this error before?").
- Before a risky or destructive operation — check whether a past attempt failed.
- Before reading large files from scratch — a past session may already summarize the relevant facts.
- When onboarding into an unfamiliar area of the codebase that you have touched before.
## Core Concept
Recall builds an in-memory BM25 index over the observation rows and answers a query with the most relevant past activity, newest-first on ties:
```
ci_recall query="permission denied push"
ci_recall query="jq command not found" k=3
ci_recall query="auth login" since=7d
```
Each result is a past tool call with a redacted snippet, a relevance score, and a timestamp.
## Privacy
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260602.aeb6415, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zsofylhs6ez4bwpc
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/recall
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a0a3798d78342b1d9ba72f252d9d2789fdadd9a2771ed283a53a6b663c8b02f1
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