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Recall Precision

The system retrieves exactly the right context at the right time — no noise, no gaps.

Recall Precision is the quality of retrieval, not storage. A system can have perfect Memory Fidelity — everything stored is accurate — but still fail at Recall Precision if it retrieves the wrong information when asked. High Recall Precision means the system surfaces exactly what's relevant to the current task: not too much (which adds noise), not too little (which creates gaps). This requires understanding the task at hand and matching it to the right stored context, not just keyword searching.

Example
A developer asks the agent to "update the payment processing module." The system has stored 200 facts about the codebase. High Recall Precision means it retrieves: the payment module's architecture, recent changes to the payment API, the team's error-handling conventions, and the relevant test patterns — exactly what's needed. Low Recall Precision would dump everything related to "payment" including the PayPal integration that was removed six months ago, the billing team's org chart, and a discussion about payment page UI that's irrelevant to backend processing.

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