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AGENTS guidance may not make recall discoverable from natural-language requests #36

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Problem

The installed research-git guidance tells agents that research-git is available and includes this recall instruction:

For recall/resurrection requests, use the rgit-recall skill.

However, in practice a user may ask for a previous idea or feature in natural language without explicitly mentioning research-git, rgit, recall, or tagging the capability. In that case, the agent may treat the request as an ordinary coding request and not realize that research-git recall should be used.

Examples of requests that may be missed:

  • Bring back the old ranking experiment.
  • Restore the previous cache idea we tried.
  • Re-apply that earlier implementation to the current codebase.
  • Use the version of this feature we explored before.

Current behavior

The recall ability exists through the rgit-recall skill, whose description covers recall/resurrection/bring-back requests. But if the agent does not connect the user wording to that skill, the user has to explicitly mention or tag research-git for the feature to be used.

Expected behavior

After research-git is installed, the agent should reliably recognize natural-language requests to bring back, restore, resurrect, re-apply, or reuse previously captured work as research-git recall opportunities, even when the user does not explicitly mention research-git.

Environment

  • research-git version: 0.0.7
  • Context: Codex / AGENTS.md managed guidance and installed rgit-recall skill

Impact

Recall becomes much less discoverable than capture: users need to already know the feature exists and name it explicitly, instead of being able to ask naturally for prior work to be brought back.

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