retro

retro is a command for Claude Code from isaacsight/kernel. It costs 0 tokens per session (440 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A team-retrospective command that reviews shared notes and agent records to find recurring problems, outdated information, successes, and missing tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review agent memories, suggest stale notes for removal, examine tool effectiveness, propose new tools, and update shared knowledge.
Why use it?
It turns past work into updated team knowledge and highlights issues that keep returning or capabilities the team lacks.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/isaacsight/kernel/retro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isaacsight/kernel

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 440 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00000 $0.00440
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00220
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00088
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 15be7a9e017f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retro 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/retro.md · 72 lines

What it actually says

Run a team retrospective. Agents review accumulated knowledge, prune stale entries, and identify tool gaps.

Protocol

1. Load All Memories

Read all agent memory files:

  • Call agent_memory_read for each: qa, designer, performance, security, devops, product
  • Also read shared-knowledge and tool-effectiveness

2. Analyze Patterns

For each agent's memory, identify:

  • Recurring issues — Problems that keep appearing (indicate systemic issues)
  • Stale entries — Findings that are no longer relevant (fixed issues, outdated metrics)
  • Wins — Successful patterns worth reinforcing
  • Gaps — Things agents needed but couldn't do

3. Prune Stale Entries

For each stale entry found:

  • Note what was stale and why
  • Suggest removal (but do NOT auto-delete — list for human review)

4. Identify Tool Gaps

Review tool-effectiveness.md for:

  • Tools with high failure rates
  • Agents that frequently work around missing capabilities
  • Propose new tools via create_tool if clear gaps emerge

5. Update Shared Knowledge

Call agent_memory_write for shared-knowledge with:

  • Key cross-cutting patterns discovered
  • Updated architecture decisions
  • Resolved coordination notes

6. Generate Retro Report

# Team Retrospective — [date]

## What's Working
[patterns and tools that consistently deliver value]

## Recurring Issues
[problems that keep appearing — need systemic fixes]

## Stale Entries (suggest pruning)
[entries that are no longer relevant, grouped by agent]

## Tool Effectiveness
| Tool | Uses | Success Rate | Notes |
|------|------|-------------|-------|

## Tool Gaps
[capabilities agents need but don't have]

## Proposed Tools
[new tools created via create_tool, if any]

## Action Items
1. [highest priority systemic fix]
2. [next priority]
...

7. Notify

Call kernel_notify on discord with retro summary.

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. 2d ago First seen · 72 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 15be7a9e017f

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retro is a command published in the GitHub repository isaacsight/kernel (16 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 440 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.