retro

A command that reviews the project’s accumulated history and writes recommendations for improving the autocoder workflow. Its output is an IMPROVEMENTS.md file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review an autocoder project and produce three to five evidence-backed workflow improvements.
Why use it?
It turns past project evidence into specific changes instead of relying only on memory or general advice. The recommendations are based on what happened in the project.

Command

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/laird/agents/retro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laird/agents
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 3,732 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.03732
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01866
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00746
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00373

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1311ee6d3356, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

retro scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

find "$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache" -type d -name "scripts" -path "*/autocoder/*" 2>/dev/null | sort -V | tail -1
plugins/autocoder/commands/retro.md · 345 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 345 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B 1311ee6d3356

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a command published in the GitHub repository laird/agents (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 3,732 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.