retro

retro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 10 tokens per session (953 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of retro, MIT.

A review of a coding session that looks for changes to the agent's working environment. It examines how files were found and whether existing linting, type checks, tests, or other automated checks could have caught problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a coding session to find missing navigation guidance, hidden file dependencies, absent guardrails, or unused repository checks.
Why use it?
It turns difficulties and mistakes from one session into concrete improvements for future sessions. It can also reveal checks that exist but are not connected to normal development or continuous integration.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions AGENTS.md.

Part of the mattpocock plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after a coding session to find missing navigation guidance, hidden file dependencies, absent guardrails, or unused repository checks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/retro
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for retro

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for retro

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 953 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 84% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00010 $0.00953
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00381
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00095

Measured 23d ago against content hash 33fbc28568e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 23d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

84% identical to retro — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

mattpocock/skills/in-progress/retro/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The user has asked for a retrospective. You are suggesting improvements to the coding agent's environment to improve future runs.

Steps

  1. Call the Skill tool with writing-for-agents for the writing style guide.

  2. Read the primary sources for the session the user specifies. This may mean searching through session logs on this machine. If the user doesn't specify a session, default to the current one.

  3. Look for candidates for improvement in these categories.

  • Navigation: how easy was it for the agent to find the right files? Are there hidden dependencies between files? Would a navigation pointer make it easier? Use when the session took a long time to find a piece of information.
  • Automated checks: are there automated checks that could catch errors the agent made? Linting, typing, tests, filesystem linters? Read the repo's own check command first (its package.json/build-tool lint/check scripts, its CI workflow), so a check that already exists but sits unwired or silently broken is the finding, not a reinvention. A repo with no guardrail (no pre-commit hook and no CI job running its lint/typecheck/test command) is itself a finding: an un-linted repo is a standing missed opportunity, not a neutral default. Use when the agent made a mistake an automated check could have caught, or the repo has no guardrail at all.
  • Coding standards: should the reviewer agent be given a new rule to enforce? Should an existing rule be removed or clarified? Classify the violation first: a mechanical one (a fixed syntactic pattern, a banned API, an import shape, a file-location rule) gets a deterministic check, full stop: a custom rule in the repo's own linter, a new pre-commit hook, or a new CI job, whichever the repo's language and existing guardrail make cheapest. Default to building the check over writing the rule. Reserve CODING_STANDARDS.md for genuine judgement calls (cross-file consistency, "matches the surrounding style," anything no guardrail could ever substitute for). Use when the reviewer agent failed to catch a mistake.
  • Global AGENTS.md: are there any steering instructions that should be moved to coding standards (or automated checks) instead? Use when the AGENTS.md file is particularly large - in the repo OR the user's global scope.
  • Tool economy: did the agent make expensive tool calls that could be streamlined? Is there any custom tooling (CLI's, MCP's) that is particularly token-inefficient? Use when the agent made an expensive tool call.
  • No-ops: look for instructions in steering files that don't modify the agent's behavior. Use when the steering files are large and unwieldy.
  • Information access: look for opportunities to increase the agent's access to information. Teeing dev server logs, readonly access to third-party services. Use when a crucial piece of information was not available to the agent.
  1. Present these candidates to the user, in order of severity.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 23d ago First seen · 45 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 33fbc28568e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (594 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 953 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to retro, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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