- Author
- Posted by mateenah, with replies from many commenters
- Published
- 21 June 2026
- Kind
- Hacker News thread
- Original
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622590
- Subject
- File-based agent memory
- Themes
- What lasts
What it is
This Hacker News thread announces Recall, a local project memory tool for Claude Code. It drew 138 points and about 85 comments. This page covers the thread, not the tool itself. Most replies describe how the commenters manage context themselves.
What it says
- The poster, mateenah, said Recall has no way to handle stale memory yet.
- majormajor keeps starting-point files under 30 lines, each scoped to a domain or task.
- suprjami suggests adding memory only when the model gets something wrong.
- gste says CLAUDE.md already does this job.
- kannanvijayan splits documents into goals, design and idioms.
- devmor keeps a last-updated commit hash in Markdown files.
- zihotki and rkochanowski asked for benchmarks or independent case studies.
What evidence it gives
The comments are personal reports. None of those listed above gives a measurement.
Interests and limits
A thread shows who chose to reply, not how common a practice is. Commenters are pseudonymous, and their claims cannot be checked from the thread.