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hindsightRecall

Recall from Hindsight

Recall memories from this Space's Hindsight bank that answer a question: Hindsight's own semantic, keyword, graph and time-aware retrieval over what the Space retained.

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Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "what does Hindsight remember about", and it calls hindsightRecall.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "query": "<query>"
  },
  "name": "hindsightRecall"
}

Arguments

• limitintegeroptionalHow many memories to return. Default 10.
• querystringrequiredThe question to recall memories for.
• tagsstring[]optionalUp to 10 short tags that scope the memory, e.g. a project name.

Returns

Returns up to limit facts (default 10, at most 50), each with its id, text, fact type, context, tags and when it was mentioned.

Declared limits

• limit: minimum 1
• limit: maximum 50
• query: minimum length 1
• query: maximum length 2000
• tags: maximum items 10

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• what does Hindsight remember about
• recall from our Hindsight bank

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• hindsightRemember
• hindsightReflect
• searchMemory

Questions

• What does hindsightRecall do?

  Recall memories from this Space's Hindsight bank that answer a question: Hindsight's own semantic, keyword, graph and time-aware retrieval over what the Space retained. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use hindsightRecall from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "what does Hindsight remember about", and it calls hindsightRecall.

• Is hindsightRecall safe to let an AI call?

  hindsightRecall is read-only: it changes nothing. It reaches a system outside The Cloud on your behalf.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.