"direct recommendations" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to explicit advice or instructions given or provided. For example, "The board of directors provided a number of direct recommendations for improving the company's financial situation."
The filing allowed it to make direct recommendations to the board.
In this role, they make direct recommendations to the editors as to whether a submitted scientific manuscript should be published.
One of the most direct recommendations in the report relates to the independence of compliance and risk managers.
(This leads Groopman to one of the few direct recommendations in this book: if you get the feeling your doctor doesn't like you, find another one).
The report, which was commissioned by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, makes no direct recommendations about the amount of logging.
The guides feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult, and UC-elinks links to the cited articles and books!
While offering no direct recommendation on financing the project, the study said alternatives in which private investment paid the bulk of the cost should be explored.
The only direct recommendation Owen makes in her report around visual culture is that officers should make more use of "body-worn video cameras".
After hours of negotiations by committee members, the report, to be released tomorrow, lacks any direct recommendation that added sugar should be reduced, as previous reports had urged.
This has some implications for launching an active learning space: perhaps faculty and student training sessions should take place before [or soon after] launch, and as much technology should be tested as possible during the planning stage (this was a direct recommendation from Elizabeth and Patricia and something they wish they had known beforehand).
So this isn't so much one direct recommendation as a testimonial to greatness.
