milestone-retro

A review procedure for evaluating the tools and checks used during a completed development milestone. A milestone is a defined group of work, such as changes merged between two release tags.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a milestone to inspect which checks ran, whether safeguards caught poor changes, how agents performed, and whether pull requests were well structured.
Why use it?
It replaces unsupported opinions about the development process with measured results from CI checks, safeguards, agents, and pull requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/agentdecksdk/agentdeck/milestone-retro
Any agent
npx skills add agentdecksdk/agentdeck --skill milestone-retro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/agentdecksdk/agentdeck

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,221 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 $0.00064 $0.01221
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00611
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00244
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00122

Measured 2d ago against content hash 77a26fd5ef03, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

milestone-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/skills/milestone-retro/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Milestone retro

Judge the machinery: the gates, the guards, the two agents, the shape of the PRs. Not the product. Whether the features were right is a different question with a different audience.

Every claim in a retro is a number with a query behind it. An opinion about the harness that nobody measured is how the harness got this way.

Setup

The milestone is the set of PRs merged to dev between two tags, or the PRs closing one milestone's issues. Fix that set first and write it down; every phase below is scoped to it.

gh pr list --state merged --limit 200 --json number,title,mergedAt,additions,deletions,changedFiles \
  --jq '.[] | select(.mergedAt > "<start>") | "\(.number)\t\(.mergedAt)\t+\(.additions)/-\(.deletions)\t\(.changedFiles)f\t\(.title)"'

Where scripts/agent_scorecard.py has already recorded a PR, read its record instead of recomputing. This skill covers what the scorecard cannot: the gates, the guards, and judgment.

Phases

Work in order. Copy this checklist into your own response and check off each phase:

Retro progress:
- [ ] 1. Gates: which CI checks fired, which never did (references/queries.md)
- [ ] 2. Guards: what the slop rules actually caught (references/queries.md)
- [ ] 3. Agents: dev and reviewer, measured (references/queries.md)
- [ ] 4. PRs: bodies, commits, comment routing (references/queries.md)
- [ ] 5. Criteria: audit the scorecards themselves (references/judging.md)
- [ ] 6. Verdict: file the issues (references/judging.md)
phase asks output
1. Gates Which required checks failed, and what did each catch? A gate that never fails and a gate that always fails are both broken. a table: gate, runs, failures
2. Guards Did any mechanical guard catch a defect this milestone, or only formatting? Compare against the findings filed. guard hits against real findings
3. Agents Dev: defect at first review, rework ratio, scope creep. Reviewer: escapes, rounds, loop rounds, words per finding. two scorecards, never merged into one
4. PRs Body size against the cap, commit hygiene, whether findings were answered in threads or by growing the body. per-PR table
5. Criteria Are the scorecards measuring the right things? Which metric changed a decision, which rewards the artifact rather than the value, which can be gamed, which cost is unmeasured. The criteria are under review here, not the agents. metrics kept, killed, added
6. Verdict What cost us time, ranked. Each gets an issue or it did not matter. filed issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 67 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 77a26fd5ef03

Subscribe to this mod's changes

milestone-retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository agentdecksdk/agentdeck (2 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,221 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.