Install Claude Recall.

Clone, build, link. Three commands. Nothing leaves your machine after it runs. The packaged @clauderecallhq/cli on npm ships with v0.8.0.

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/citizencapet/claude-recall.git

cd claude-recall && npm install && npm run build && npm link

recall start && recall open

Requires Node 20 or newer. The packaged @clauderecallhq/cli ships with v0.8.0 — star the repo for a heads-up.

Requirements

Node 20 or newer (node --version)
macOS, Linux, or Windows with WSL2
Claude Code installed and having written at least one session to ~/.claude/projects/

Once installed, wire Recall into Claude Code as a native tool. Full MCP setup docs →

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recall": {
      "command": "claude-recall-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Run recall status to see daemon state and the indexed session count. Check ~/.recall/daemon.log for errors.