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recall

Queries an Obsidian Markdown vault and answers with citations, dates, and confidence levels.

Updated May 22, 2026
Search Tags:#recall#knowledge base#citations#vault search#obsidian#personal knowledge management#markdown notes
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/fbureau/second-brain --skill recall-fbureau
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: recall
Source: https://github.com/fbureau/second-brain/tree/main/.claude/skills/recall
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/fbureau/second-brain --skill recall-fbureau

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Your knowledge base grows over months of meetings, decisions, and notes, but finding a specific fact or confirming a past decision means digging through folders by hand. This Skill searches the vault for you and returns a direct answer backed by cited notes, so you can trust what you find and know when the vault simply doesn't cover something. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Cited Answers: Every claim is backed by a note path and date, with a confidence level (high, medium, speculation) and an explicit statement of gaps. - Hub-First Search: Searches the knowledge index and domain hubs before individual notes, following wikilinks across people, decisions, projects, and meetings. - Trust-Weighted Evidence: Weighs manual notes above auto-logged, needs-review, or backfilled entries, and surfaces contradictions between sources. - Use Case: Ask "did we decide how to handle tier-1 support centralization, and who pushed back?" and get the decision note, the meeting where the objection was raised, and the person who raised it — all with dates. ## Quick Start Ask "what do I know about the Atlas project and did we ever decide on its launch date?"

Frequently Asked Questions about recall

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I search my Obsidian vault with Claude?▼

Ask a natural-language question like "what do I know about X" or "did we decide Y". The recall skill searches the vault's index, domain hubs, and linked notes, then returns an answer with citations to the relevant Markdown files and dates.

How do I confirm a past decision from my notes?▼

Ask a confirmation question such as "did we decide to centralize tier-1 support". The skill checks the decisions folder and related meeting notes, then answers with the decision note path, its date and status, plus any recorded pushback.

Does the recall skill work with an empty or new vault?▼

Yes, but with reduced structure. If the knowledge index and domain hubs do not exist yet, it falls back to scanning the knowledge folder directly and suggests running the bootstrap process to build the index for future searches.

Can recall search the web as well as my vault?▼

By default it stays inside the vault. If you explicitly ask for external research, it performs that separately and clearly labels which claims come from vault notes versus outside sources, so the two are never blurred.

What happens when my notes contradict each other?▼

The skill surfaces both conflicting sources with their dates, lets the more recent or higher-trust note lead the answer, and explicitly flags the conflict rather than silently picking one side.

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