solo-retro

/retro

This skill is self-contained — follow the phases below instead of delegating to other skills (/review, /audit, /build) or spawning Task subagents. Run all analysis directly.

Post-pipeline retrospective. Parses pipeline logs, counts productive vs wasted iterations, identifies recurring failure patterns, scores the pipeline run, and suggests concrete patches to skills/scripts to prevent the same failures next time.

Live Context

• Branch: !git branch --show-current 2>/dev/null
• Recent commits: !git log --oneline -10 2>/dev/null
• Modified files: !git diff --name-only HEAD~5..HEAD 2>/dev/null | head -20

When to use

After a pipeline completes (or gets cancelled). This is the process quality check — /review checks code quality, /retro checks pipeline process quality.

Can also be used standalone on any project — with or without pipeline logs.

MCP Tools (use if available)

• session_search(query) — find past pipeline runs and known issues
• codegraph_explain(project) — understand project architecture context
• codegraph_query(query) — query code graph for project metadata

If MCP tools are not available, fall back to Glob + Grep + Read.

Phase 1: Locate Artifacts

1. Detect project from $ARGUMENTS or CWD:

   • If argument provided: use it as project name
   • Otherwise: extract from CWD basename (e.g., ~/projects/my-app -> my-app)

2. Find pipeline state file: .solo/pipelines/solo-pipeline-{project}.local.md (project-local) or ~/.solo/pipelines/solo-pipeline-{project}.local.md (global fallback)

   • If it exists: pipeline is still running or wasn't cleaned up — read YAML frontmatter for project_root:
   • If not: pipeline completed — use CWD as project root

3. Verify artifacts exist (parallel reads):

   • Pipeline log: {project_root}/.solo/pipelines/pipeline.log
   • Iter logs: {project_root}/.solo/pipelines/iter-*.log
   • Progress file: {project_root}/.solo/pipelines/progress.md
   • Plan-done directory: {project_root}/docs/plan-done/
   • Active plan: {project_root}/docs/plan/