Total Recall

built this because I got tired of re-teaching Claude Code the same context every session. Preferences, decisions, “we already tried X,” “don’t touch this file,” etc. After a few days it starts to feel like onboarding the same coworker every morning.Most “agent memory” tools auto-save everything. That feels good briefly, then memory turns into a junk drawer and retrieval gets noisy. Total Recall takes the opposite approach: a write gate. Before anything gets promoted, it asks one question: “Will this change future behavior?” If not, it doesn’t get saved.How it works:Daily log first (raw notes)Promote durable stuff into registers (decisions, preferences, people, projects)Small working memory loads every session (kept intentionally lean)Hooks fail open. SessionStart can surface open loops + recent context. PreCompact writes to disk (not model-visible stdout)The holy shit moment is simple: tell Claude one important preference or decision once, come back tomorrow, and it behaves correctly without you repeating yourself.Would love feedback from heavy Claude Code users:Does the write gate feel right or too strict?Does this actually reduce repetition over multiple days?Any workflow/privacy footguns I’m missing?