retro-learn

retro-learn is a skill for Codex from HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard. It costs 18 tokens per session (583 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A learning workflow that turns delivery problems, missed expectations, and verification findings into improvements to skills, evaluations, workflows, or documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for analysing defects, failed checks, user corrections, process friction, and documentation gaps, then deciding what should change.
Why use it?
It helps teams prevent the same mistakes from recurring across future development sessions.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: installed under .codex/.

Good fit It is for analysing defects, failed checks, user corrections, process friction, and documentation gaps, then deciding what should change.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hoangnguyen0403/agent-skills-standard/retro-learn
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 HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard --skill retro-learn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 583 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00018 $0.00583
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00292
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured 9d ago against content hash c2949aeb2a2b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retro-learn 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 9d 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.

.codex/skills/retro-learn/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retro Learn Skill

[!IMPORTANT] Convert delivery findings into skill, eval, workflow, and documentation improvements.

Optional args: slug=, ticket=<id/url>, mode=interactive|autonomous|channel, channel=, auto_continue=true|false, profile=business|hybrid|technical.

Instructions

When the user asks to perform this workflow, execute the following steps:

Retro Learn Workflow

Goal: Turn defects, missed expectations, and delivery friction into durable standards improvements.

Steps

  1. Gather evidence:
    • Review findings
    • Bugs found during verification
    • Security findings
    • User corrections
    • Failed or slow checks
    • Token or context pain
    • session-report artifacts
  2. Classify:
    • Skill rule gap
    • Eval coverage gap
    • Workflow gap
    • Documentation gap
    • Tooling gap
    • Specialist gap
    • Environment-only issue
  3. Decide action:
    • Existing skill should prevent it: update SKILL.md and evals/evals.json.
    • No skill covers it: propose a new skill.
    • Workflow caused drift: update .agents/workflows.
    • Specialist caused drift: add budget, fallback, or output-format rule.
    • Tooling can catch it: add or update an audit script.
  4. Verify learning:
    • Run changed skill validation.
    • Run eval alignment.
    • Record remaining follow-ups.

Runtime Contract

  • Use after delivery findings, corrections, or friction need converting into durable standards improvements.
  • Required inputs: review findings, verification results, or session-report artifacts to classify.
  • Return BLOCKED only when no evidence exists to classify.

Handoff Payload

  • slug, root causes, skill/eval updates, follow-ups, next workflow.

Blocking Questions

  • Ask max 3 at a time with a recommended default and 2-3 options.

Output Template

# Retro: [Name]

## Evidence

## Root Causes

| Finding | Category | Action |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [finding] | [category] | [action] |

## Skill Or Eval Updates

## Outcome Report
feature_status: implemented
requirement_trace: BRD-OBJ-* -> REQ-* -> AC-* -> SRS-* -> evidence
completed_evidence: []; missing_evidence: []; decision_needed: []; recommended_next_workflow: none

## Next Workflow

## Follow-Ups

## Cost Report
Call `get_session_cost(workflow="retro-learn")` before final handoff.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 lines

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. 9d ago First seen · 92 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A c2949aeb2a2b

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retro-learn is a skill published in the GitHub repository HoangNguyen0403/agent-skills-standard (565 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 583 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.