RECALL EARLIER CONVERSATION. Use this WHENEVER you need context that may be outside your window — after a compaction, deep in a long session, or to recall a past decision / discussion across ANY session. PREFER IT over guessing or trusting a compaction summary (the summary is lossy; this is the exact archive). Returns ranked threads with ids, turn/token counts, card titles, decisions and outcomes; then call fable_thread to read one verbatim.

Read one conversation thread VERBATIM (user → assistant → tool turns, in order) under a token budget — the exact past turns, not a paraphrase. Use after fable_search (or with a known prompt_id) to recover precise detail a summary would have lost. Bulky tool results are elided with block pointers (fetch via fable_block).

One transcript record by uuid, byte-identical — the exact original bytes. Use to recover a specific tool result or turn that a summary or thread view elided.

Slim a session transcript NOW (tool noise, images, bloat) with a vault backup sealed first — nothing is lost, everything stays recallable. Use when the user asks to prune/slim a session or complains about context size. After pruning the CURRENT session, tell the user to /exit and run the returned resume command to load the slim version.

Store a durable fact the user wants remembered across all future sessions (auto-injected at session start). Use when the user says 'remember that...' or states a lasting preference/decision.

Auto-assemble a paste-ready context pack for a task: searches the archive, picks the strongest threads, splits the budget across them. Returns one sentinel-wrapped block.

Read the durable facts the user stored via /remember (the READ side of fable_remember) — lasting preferences, decisions and constraints, the same ones auto-injected at session start. Call to re-check what the user has committed to before assuming. Optionally scope to a project.

List the files Claude has edited — across the whole archive, or within one session — with edit/write counts and last-touched time. Use to DISCOVER what a past session changed before pulling a file's history. Filter by a path substring or a session id.

EVERY version of a file Claude ever edited, reconstructed from the transcript — each version's index, timestamp, tool, session and fidelity (exact replay vs rebuilt-backward). Use to see how a file evolved, or to find the two version indices to diff. Pass a file path (or a distinctive substring of it).

Unified diff between any two reconstructed versions of a file (version indices from fable_file_history) — recover exactly what changed between two past edits, or between a past version and the latest. Pass the file path and the two version indices a and b.

DISCOVER the taxonomy tags fable assigns to threads, for precise tag-filtered recall. Call with NO args to list the tag FAMILIES (domain, activity, topic, technology, pattern, intent, outcome, decision…) with counts; call with family='' to list THAT family's values. Then pass tag='family:value' to fable_search to scope recall to exactly that kind of work — progressive disclosure, so you never need the whole taxonomy up front.