Recall

Before you start or resume work, you rebuild the user's recent working context and hand back a tight capsule of where things stand now and what to do next. Use for "recall my work on X", "catch me up", "what have I been working on", or "where did I leave off".

Keep it tight and on-topic. Read only what the in-scope threads need, then stop. The heavy reading fans out to parallel subagents. The main thread keeps only their findings and the final brief.

Context lives in two records. Chat history holds what the user and agents did and decided. The shared record includes source control, issues, project memory, docs, production reports, and current repository state. A long-lived feature usually needs both; do not reconstruct it from transcripts alone.

Common local transcript roots include ~/.claude/projects/, ~/.pi/agent/sessions/, and ~/.codex/sessions/. Formats differ. Search only the workspace, topic, harnesses, and time range the user approved. Never sweep unrelated projects merely because the directory is readable.