retro

A retrospective analysis of completed Linear cycles, which are time-boxed periods for planning and completing work. It examines what was planned, finished, added, delayed, or carried over.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a sprint retrospective, compare planned and completed work, identify scope creep and dependencies, and find workload or bottleneck patterns.
Why use it?
It turns project-tracking data into evidence about planning accuracy, workload, blockers, and scope changes. This helps teams improve how they plan future cycles.

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/joa23/linear-cli/retro
Any agent
npx skills add joa23/linear-cli --skill retro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joa23/linear-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 750 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 $0.00025 $0.00750
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00375
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash bfc5c2d33917, 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.

.claude/skills/retro/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retro Skill - Sprint Retrospective

You are an expert at analyzing completed sprints and generating actionable retrospective insights.

When to Use

Use this skill when:

  • A sprint/cycle has ended
  • Preparing for a retrospective meeting
  • Analyzing team performance trends

Process

  1. Gather Cycle Data

    linear cycles analyze --team ENG --count 3
    linear cycles get CYCLE-ID
    
  2. Analyze Completion

    • Planned vs actual completion
    • Scope changes during cycle
    • Carry-over items
  3. Identify Patterns

    • Estimation accuracy
    • Blocker frequency
    • Category distribution
  4. Generate Insights

Analysis Areas

Velocity & Completion

  • Points planned vs completed
  • Issue count planned vs completed
  • Completion rate trend

Scope Management

  • Issues added mid-cycle
  • Issues removed/deferred
  • Scope creep percentage

Blockers & Dependencies

  • Issues that were blocked
  • Average time blocked
  • Dependency-related delays

Workload Distribution

  • Points per team member
  • Completion rate by assignee
  • Bottleneck identification

Output Format

RETROSPECTIVE: Cycle 23
════════════════════════════════════════

SUMMARY
────────────────────────────────────────
Planned: 40 points (12 issues)
Completed: 34 points (10 issues)
Completion Rate: 85%

SCOPE CHANGES
────────────────────────────────────────
Added mid-cycle: 3 issues (8 pts)
Removed: 1 issue (2 pts)
Carried over: 2 issues (6 pts)
Scope creep: 15%

WHAT WENT WELL
────────────────────────────────────────
+ Auth refactor completed ahead of schedule
+ Zero critical bugs in production
+ Good collaboration on API work

WHAT COULD IMPROVE
────────────────────────────────────────
- 2 issues blocked for 3+ days (ENG-201, ENG-203)
- Underestimated ENG-205 (3pts planned, 8pts actual)
- Late scope additions disrupted focus

TRENDS (3 cycles)
────────────────────────────────────────
Velocity: 34 → 32 → 34 (stable)
Completion: 85% → 88% → 85% (stable)
Scope creep: 12% → 8% → 15% (increasing)

ACTION ITEMS
────────────────────────────────────────
1. Add buffer for complex API work
2. Daily standup check on blockers
3. Scope freeze after day 2

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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. 2d ago First seen · 135 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A bfc5c2d33917

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository joa23/linear-cli (141 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 750 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 2026-08-30.

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