retro

A retrospective workflow for reassessing a project's direction after a milestone, repeated blockage, scope change, or invalid plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Review the original plan, decisions, completed work, current changes, and verification results, then recommend whether to continue, stop, or pivot.
Why use it?
It separates problems with the overall direction from ordinary bug fixing and makes the next decision evidence-based.

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/bnet47/codexicon/retro
Any agent
npx skills add bnet47/codexicon --skill retro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bnet47/codexicon

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 397 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 $0.00034 $0.00397
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3c9ffd565c29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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.

.agents/skills/retro/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Retro

Announce: "I'm using retro to step back and assess direction."

1. Load evidence

Read the relevant charter/spec, plan, checkpoints, accepted decisions, current diff, and verification state. Note missing or empty evidence rather than inferring a history that is not recorded.

2. Assess

Answer with concrete evidence:

  • Direction: Is the original problem and outcome still correct? Has scope moved away from it?
  • Execution: What completed cleanly, blocked, or required rework, and why?
  • Decisions: Which assumptions or ADRs no longer fit the evidence?
  • Debt: What shortcut or ambiguity creates the largest future risk?
  • Workflow: Did planning, context management, or delegation improve outcomes or add overhead?

3. Report

# Retro: [Project or feature] — [YYYY-MM-DD]

## Working
- [Evidence-backed strength.]

## Not working
- [Evidence-backed problem.]

## Scope drift
- [Original intent versus current state.]

## Decisions to revisit
- [ADR or assumption.]

## Recommended changes
1. [Highest-leverage action.]

## Verdict
CONTINUE | STOP | PIVOT

[Rationale and immediate next move.]

Save to agent_docs/sessions/[YYYY-MM-DD]-[slug]-retro.md when a durable report is useful or requested.

4. Act only within authority

Continue ordinary in-scope implementation when the verdict is CONTINUE and the request includes it. For STOP or PIVOT, recommend the appropriate spec, ADR, or plan updates and perform them only when already authorized. Never auto-commit, push, open a PR, or rewrite accepted ADRs as a retro side effect.

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 · 55 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 3c9ffd565c29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository bnet47/codexicon (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 397 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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