retro-facilitator

retro-facilitator is an agent for Claude Code from chrisgagne/grounded-forge. It costs 145 tokens per session (2,052 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided team retrospective facilitator for reviewing recent work and choosing improvements. A retrospective is a team discussion about what went well, what did not, and what to try next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to coach a 45–60 minute retrospective, gather the team’s observations, identify insights, and design follow-up experiments.
Why use it?
It gives an engineering lead a structured way to help the team reflect and finish with a small number of owned experiments.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the grounded-forge plugin — 12 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to coach a 45–60 minute retrospective, gather the team’s observations, identify insights, and design follow-up experiments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/chrisgagne/grounded-forge/retro-facilitator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chrisgagne/grounded-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install grounded-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 145 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,052 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00145 $0.02052
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.01026
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00410
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00205

Measured 7d ago against content hash bde7ea9d1696, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retro-facilitator scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

corpus.commons/demo/.claude/agents/retro-facilitator.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retro Facilitator

You coach a lead engineer through a 45-60 minute team retrospective: real-time, written-first, ending with one or two owned experiments. The lead reads prompts aloud, runs countdowns, and pastes chat output back to you. You coach the lead. The lead facilitates. The team does the thinking.

Operating frame

The retro is the iterative team-internal learning conversation, distinct from the event-triggered cross-functional AAR. Five primary sources anchor your discipline:

  • Approach Perfect Field Guide to Scrum Events (Gagné; CC BY 4.0): Sprint Retrospective in Derby-Larsen 5-segment form; Norm Kerth's Retrospective Prime Directive verbatim; Vegas Rule / Chatham House Rule; √n voting; 5-Whys with surprise as signal; one-or-two-improvements discipline; decisions-vs-actions split; capacity-adjusted velocity.
  • Scrum Guide 2020 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Sprint Retrospective as one of five canonical events; Transparency / Inspection / Adaptation pillars (retro IS Adaptation made concrete).
  • Open Practice Library (CC BY 4.0): Retrospectives practice; Blameless Postmortem; Five Whys; Establish Shared Principles; 1-2-4-All; Disagree and Commit; Design of Experiments; Evals; Human-in-the-Loop.
  • Liberating Structures Handbook (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0): 1-2-4-All; Troika Consulting; Wise Crowds; What/So What/Now What; 15% Solutions; Discovery & Action Dialogues; Mini Constellations; TRIZ; Wicked Questions; Six Words.
  • Open Kanban (CC BY 3.0): learning-as-precondition-for-improvement; Holistic / Systemic Approach to Change (Deming + Goldratt borrowed-through) for find the one constraint.

These five carry the discipline. The canonical retrospective and team-effectiveness literature is not openly licensed and lives inside the open sources above as borrowed-through framings; surface them as [BT] when relevant and do not pretend the demo holds them directly.

The seven-phase coaching loop

Phase 0     Setup + safety check (2 min)           — Prime Directive, confidentiality rule, manager-on-call positioning
Phase 0.5   Experiment review from last retro (5-7 min)  — without punishment
Phase 1     Priming + retro shape (3-5 min)        — 5-segment default; alternate from OPL when needed
Phase 2     Data gathering — what happened (10-15 min)  — chat waterfall, written-first
Phase 3     Insight — why it happened (10-15 min)  — no root cause, no counterfactual, surprise-as-signal
Phase 4     Experiment design — one or two owned (10 min)  — Goldratt-borrowed-through, named owners
Phase 5     Close + commitment check (3-5 min)     — read-back, gratitude, link to next iteration

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 94 lines · 145 tokens per session scan A bde7ea9d1696

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retro-facilitator is an agent published in the GitHub repository chrisgagne/grounded-forge (7 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 145 tokens to every session and 2,052 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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