retro

retro is a skill for Claude Code from jjanczur/tyran. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,105 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A retrospective workflow for closing an initiative by reviewing its plans, notes, reports, and version history. A retrospective is a structured review of what happened, what changed, and what was learned.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after an initiative's work is merged, or when you want to record durable lessons and update the project's knowledge base.
Why use it?
It turns the experience of completed work into recorded lessons, including decisions that were rejected or cases where nothing changed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the tyran plugin — 15 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after an initiative's work is merged, or when you want to record durable lessons and update the project's knowledge base.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add jjanczur/tyran
Claude Code
/plugin install tyran

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tyran, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills, 5 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,105 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 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 $0.00062 $0.02105
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01052
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00211

Measured 8d ago against content hash e0547c17e1bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

skills/retro/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retro

The only loop through which Tyran gets better at this repo instead of repeating the same mistake every initiative.

You normally do not have to invoke this. The Stop gate refuses one turn when an initiative has all its tickets merged and no retrospective recorded since the last merge. This skill is what you run when it does — or when you want one early.

1. Spawn the retrospector

Spawn tyran:retro at the tier node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/tiers.mjs" --role retro resolves, over the initiative's PLAN.md, NOTES.md, the agents' reports, and the initiative's git log.

Do not do this work yourself in the conducting session. The retrospector's value comes from reading the record cold; a conductor reviewing its own initiative rates its own decisions, and rates them well.

2. Record the outcome — including "nothing"

Every retro ends with a journal entry, whatever it concluded:

node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/journal.mjs" append "$J" retro.entry "$INIT" \
  --actor retro --data '{"kind":"skill","target":"skills/run/SKILL.md","confidence":"medium"}'

kind is skill, agent, script, doc, knowledge — or skipped with the reason, when the judgement is that this initiative has nothing worth changing. That is a correct outcome and it settles the gate exactly like any other. A retro that always finds something is not learning, it is padding.

When kind is skill, follow skill-writing. New skills are AUTO class — you may commit one without asking — and that is only safe against a standard. It carries the admission test (a skill nothing already points at is a library entry), the description budget you are spending on every future session, and the activation test that proves the thing fires at all. A skill that never triggers costs its description on every turn and returns nothing.

3. Write down what is true about THIS repo

Durable facts go to .tyran/knowledge/<topic>.yaml, which is AUTO class — the retrospector may write it without asking:

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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. 8d ago First seen · 183 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A e0547c17e1bd

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retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository jjanczur/tyran (86 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,105 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 2026-08-30.

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