recall

Recover development context from git commit history by reconstructing structured intent, decisions, rejections, constraints, and learnings from past commits. This reduces repeated exploration and prevents revisiting rejected approaches when switching branches.

Summarize a git branch by generating a briefing that extracts commit intent, decisions, rejections, constraints, learnings, and any staged or unstaged work. This provides a concise state overview for faster branch switching and session handoffs.

Search git history for prior decisions by querying specific scopes or typed actions such as rejected(auth). This targeted history lookup finds prior reasoning quickly without manually reading through every commit message.

Conventional commits structure commit messages with typed actions and scopes, enabling automated decision tracking and contextual parsing. This format allows tools to extract intent, rejections, and constraints directly from the commit history.

This approach requires contextual commit messages containing structured intent, decisions, rejections, constraints, and learnings. It applies to standard git workflows using conventional commits, branch base detection, and diff awareness for accurate synthesis.

Avoid automated commit history reconstruction when commits lack structured contextual messages or when the repository history is too shallow for meaningful synthesis. The tool relies entirely on observed commits and changes, so sparse history yields limited context.