/recall-promote

description: Review daily logs and promote entries to registers or working memory.
disable-model-invocation: true

Review recent daily logs and surface candidates for promotion to registers or CLAUDE.local.md.

What To Do

1. Gather Recent Logs

Read all daily log files from the last 7 days (memory/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md).

If no daily logs exist, tell the user:

No daily logs found. Use /recall-write or /recall-log to start capturing.

2. Identify Promotion Candidates

Scan each entry and evaluate:

**Promote to CLAUDE.local.md if:**

• Active commitment or deadline that affects every session
• Behavioral preference that changes default output
• Current project state that's essential context

**Promote to a register if:**

• Decision with rationale → decisions.md
• Person context → people.md
• Technical choice → tech-stack.md
• Preference with staying power → preferences.md
• Project milestone or state change → projects.md

**Skip if:**

• Already captured in a register or CLAUDE.local.md
• One-off observation with no future impact
• Debugging detail or transient state

3. Present Candidates

For each candidate, show:

Candidates for promotion:

1. [2026-02-03] "Project deadline moved to March 15"
   → Suggest: CLAUDE.local.md (active commitment)

2. [2026-02-02] "Prefers tabs over spaces, 2-space indent"
   → Suggest: registers/preferences.md

3. [2026-02-01] "Decided to use Postgres over SQLite for scale"
   → Suggest: registers/decisions.md

4. Ask User

For each candidate, ask the user what to do:

• **Promote** — write to the suggested destination
• **Register** — write to a different register (ask which one)
• **Skip** — don't promote, leave in daily log
• **Promote all** — accept all suggestions at once

5. Execute

For each promoted item: 1. Write to the destination with proper metadata (claim, confidence, evidence, last_verified) 2. Do NOT remove from daily log (daily logs are append-only history) 3. Check for contradictions with existing entries before writing 4. **Assign a durable ID**: For single-line list items promoted to CLAUDE.local.md or registers, append a `^tr` ID (10 random lowercase hex chars). Create or update `memory/.recall/metadata.json` with an entry for the new ID (`created_at`, `last_reviewed_at` = now, `pinned: false`, `snoozed_until: null`, `status: "active"`, `tier` from destination file). Create `memory/.recall/` directory if needed. Write metadata.json with sorted keys.

6. Summary

Promotion complete:
  → 2 entries promoted to registers
  → 1 entry promoted to CLAUDE.local.md
  → 1 entry skipped

CLAUDE.local.md word count: [N]/1500

Warn if CLAUDE.local.md is approaching the 1500 word limit.