diff --git a/actions/dataset.go b/actions/dataset.go
index 3c9b5c8d0..1f5157ae4 100644
--- a/actions/dataset.go
+++ b/actions/dataset.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package actions
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/ipfs/go-datastore"
 	"github.com/qri-io/cafs"
@@ -64,12 +65,22 @@ func SaveDataset(node *p2p.QriNode, dsp *dataset.DatasetPod, dryRun, pin bool) (
 	if ds.Transform != nil {
 		mutateCheck := mutatedComponentsFunc(dsp)
 		if ds.Transform.Script == nil {
-			var f *os.File
-			f, err = os.Open(ds.Transform.ScriptPath)
-			if err != nil {
-				return
+			if strings.HasPrefix(ds.Transform.ScriptPath, "/ipfs") || strings.HasPrefix(ds.Transform.ScriptPath, "/map") || strings.HasPrefix(ds.Transform.ScriptPath, "/cafs") {
+				var f cafs.File
+				f, err = node.Repo.Store().Get(datastore.NewKey(ds.Transform.ScriptPath))
+				if err != nil {
+					return
+				}
+				ds.Transform.Script = f
+			} else {
+				var f *os.File
+				f, err = os.Open(ds.Transform.ScriptPath)
+				if err != nil {
+					return
+				}
+				ds.Transform.Script = f
 			}
-			ds.Transform.Script = f
+
 		}
 		// TODO - consider making this a standard method on dataset.Transform
 		script := cafs.NewMemfileReader(ds.Transform.ScriptPath, ds.Transform.Script)
diff --git a/actions/recall_test.go b/actions/recall_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..356eab67f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/actions/recall_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package actions
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestRecall(t *testing.T) {
+	node := newTestNode(t)
+	ref := addNowTransformDataset(t, node)
+
+	_, err := Recall(node, "", ref)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+
+	_, err = Recall(node, "tf", ref)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/lib/datasets.go b/lib/datasets.go
index 3f7d77811..00424228d 100644
--- a/lib/datasets.go
+++ b/lib/datasets.go
@@ -172,10 +172,8 @@ func (r *DatasetRequests) Save(p *SaveParams, res *repo.DatasetRef) (err error)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if p.ReturnBody {
-		if ref.Dataset != nil {
-			ref.Dataset.Body = body
-		}
+	if p.ReturnBody && ref.Dataset != nil {
+		ref.Dataset.Body = body
 	}
 
 	*res = ref
@@ -196,6 +194,15 @@ type UpdateParams struct {
 // Update advances a dataset to the latest known version from either a peer or by
 // re-running a transform in the peer's namespace
 func (r *DatasetRequests) Update(p *UpdateParams, res *repo.DatasetRef) error {
+	if r.cli != nil {
+		if p.ReturnBody {
+			// can't send an io.Reader interface over RPC
+			p.ReturnBody = false
+			log.Error("cannot return body bytes over RPC, disabling body return")
+		}
+		return r.cli.Call("DatasetRequests.Update", p, res)
+	}
+
 	ref, err := repo.ParseDatasetRef(p.Ref)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -225,6 +232,9 @@ func (r *DatasetRequests) Update(p *UpdateParams, res *repo.DatasetRef) error {
 
 // SetPublishStatus updates the publicity of a reference in the peer's namespace
 func (r *DatasetRequests) SetPublishStatus(ref *repo.DatasetRef, res *bool) error {
+	if r.cli != nil {
+		return r.cli.Call("DatasetRequests.SetPublishStatus", ref, res)
+	}
 	res = &ref.Published
 	return actions.SetPublishStatus(r.node, ref, ref.Published)
 }
diff --git a/lib/datasets_test.go b/lib/datasets_test.go
index 0146d6736..4436b2d81 100644
--- a/lib/datasets_test.go
+++ b/lib/datasets_test.go
@@ -136,6 +136,47 @@ func TestDatasetRequestsSave(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestDatasetRequestsSaveRecall(t *testing.T) {
+	node := newTestQriNode(t)
+	ref := addNowTransformDataset(t, node)
+	r := NewDatasetRequests(node, nil)
+
+	res := &repo.DatasetRef{}
+	err := r.Save(&SaveParams{Dataset: &dataset.DatasetPod{
+		Peername: ref.Peername,
+		Name:     ref.Name,
+		Meta:     &dataset.Meta{Title: "an updated title"},
+	}, ReturnBody: true}, res)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error("save failed")
+	}
+
+	err = r.Save(&SaveParams{
+		Dataset: &dataset.DatasetPod{
+			Peername: ref.Peername,
+			Name:     ref.Name,
+			Meta:     &dataset.Meta{Title: "an updated title"},
+		},
+		Recall: "wut"}, res)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Error("expected bad recall to error")
+	}
+
+	err = r.Save(&SaveParams{
+		Dataset: &dataset.DatasetPod{
+			Peername: ref.Peername,
+			Name:     ref.Name,
+			Meta:     &dataset.Meta{Title: "new title!"},
+		},
+		Recall: "tf"}, res)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+	if res.Dataset.Transform == nil {
+		t.Error("expected transform to exist on recalled save")
+	}
+}
+
 func TestDatasetRequestsSaveZip(t *testing.T) {
 	rc, _ := regmock.NewMockServer()
 	mr, err := testrepo.NewTestRepo(rc)
diff --git a/lib/file.go b/lib/file.go
index 205bef576..821e533ca 100644
--- a/lib/file.go
+++ b/lib/file.go
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ func AbsPath(path *string) (err error) {
 func pathKind(path string) string {
 	if path == "" {
 		return "none"
-	}
-	if strings.HasPrefix(path, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(path, "https://") {
+	} else if strings.HasPrefix(path, "http://") || strings.HasPrefix(path, "https://") {
 		return "http"
-	}
-	if strings.HasPrefix(path, "/ipfs") {
+	} else if strings.HasPrefix(path, "/ipfs") {
 		return "ipfs"
+	} else if strings.HasPrefix(path, "/map") || strings.HasPrefix(path, "/cafs") {
+		return "cafs"
 	}
 	return "file"
 }