Setup guide
Get RE-call running in seven steps.
A local memory layer for agents, with every command, expected result, and recovery path.
What you are installing
A memory that would rather say nothing than guess.
RE-call stores notes, decisions, and project history, then searches them by meaning.
When nothing matches with enough confidence, it abstains instead of handing you the nearest note.
Asked something it has no answer to
[ABSTAIN GAP] query='penguins on Mars?' reason: no confident match in this corpus evidence: rate-limits.md · confidence 0.30
A low-confidence match is shown as evidence, not presented as an answer.
- You need
- Python 3.11+3.12 to 3.14 also supported
- And
- Docker DesktopRuns the database for you
- Your data
- Stays localThe default embedder runs on your machine
- Licence
- Apache 2.0Free for commercial use
The moving parts
Three things, and only one of them is RE-call.
Most of the confusion in a first install comes from not knowing which piece a command is talking to. There are only three.
| Piece | What it does | You touch it |
|---|---|---|
| A PostgreSQL database | Stores your notes and their vector embeddings. | Once, during setup. |
| The RE-call package | Indexes markdown and decides whether a result is safe to use. | Every query. |
| The MCP server | Lets Claude Code query your local memory. | Optional. |
New, and in beta
On Windows, a wizard can do all seven steps for you.
One window asks a short list of questions, then brings up the database, indexes your folders and writes the Claude Code wiring while you watch the log.
The first published build could not start, and the download is on hold while a corrected one is released. The page says what happened and what the fix was.
What you give up by using it
Nothing that cannot be recovered. The wizard writes the same configuration file the terminal flow writes, and the install it produces is one you can re-run, inspect, or hand to somebody else.
The seven step install stays the path on macOS and Linux, and the path to fall back to if the installer will not start.
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