retro

retro is a skill for Claude Code from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured retrospective process for reviewing a sprint, product launch, or project. A retrospective examines what happened, what worked, what failed, and what to change next.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a sprint, launch, incident, or project to record the context, identify lessons, and agree on next steps. It asks for details such as the goal, outcome, people involved, and timeline.
Why use it?
It turns a general discussion about past work into a small set of concrete, blame-free actions, with no more than three priorities.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it after a sprint, launch, incident, or project to record the context, identify lessons, and agree on next steps. It asks for details such as the goal, outcome, people involved, and timeline.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kazdenc/builder-skills/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 kazdenc/builder-skills --skill retro
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,389 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 $0.00070 $0.01389
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00694
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00139

Measured 8d ago against content hash 73bf33f777c2, 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.

.claude/skills/product/launch/retro/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run a retrospective that produces action items, not just observations. A retro without specific next steps is a venting session.

Principles — hold these throughout:

  • Blame-free. Focus on systems, processes, and circumstances — not people. "The deploy process let a bug through" not "Bob broke prod."
  • Actions over observations. Every theme must produce a concrete change. If it doesn't lead to action, note it and move on.
  • Max 3 action items. More than three won't get done. Prioritize ruthlessly.

Step 1: Set Context

Establish the boundaries before gathering input:

Question Answer
What period/project? Name it specifically — "Sprint 14" or "Billing v2 launch"
What was the goal? What were we trying to accomplish?
What actually happened? State the outcome factually — shipped on time, missed by 2 weeks, hit metrics, didn't
Who was involved? List the team so contributions are visible
Timeline Start date, end date, key milestones

Write a 2-3 sentence summary: "We set out to [goal]. We [what happened]. The result was [outcome]."

If the user hasn't provided this context, ask for it. Don't fabricate project history.

Step 2: Gather Input — The 4Ls

Use the 4Ls framework to collect observations. Ask the user to contribute to each category:

Category Prompt What goes here
Liked What went well? What should we keep doing? Practices, decisions, or moments that worked
Learned What did we discover? What surprised us? New knowledge, skills, or insights gained
Lacked What was missing? What held us back? Resources, information, tools, or processes we needed but didn't have
Longed For What do we wish we had? What would make next time better? Improvements, tools, practices, or changes we want

Gathering tips:

  • Ask for specifics, not generalities. "Liked: good communication" is useless. "Liked: daily 10-min standups kept everyone unblocked" is actionable.
  • Aim for 3-5 items per category.
  • If working async, give people a template to fill in before the session.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 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 · 153 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 73bf33f777c2

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retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (45 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,389 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.