retro

retro is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mifunedev/openharness. It costs 154 tokens per session (3,825 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A session-closing review that turns conversation signals into testable explanations and checks the evidence for and against each one. It reports whether each explanation is supported, refuted, or still uncertain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a coding-agent session to review what happened and record evidence-backed improvements.
Why use it?
It helps identify lessons from decisions, surprises, regressions, and failures without automatically changing project files. Important supported lessons can become future evaluation tests.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Per session 154 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,825 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 $0.00154 $0.03825
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.01912
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00765
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00382

Measured today against content hash 8dae7958d23a, 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-retro-report.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

.oh/skills/retro/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retro

Scientific session-closing retrospective. Turn the current conversation's signals into falsifiable hypotheses, test each against session evidence (for and against), assign a verdict and confidence, and nominate only the supported, sufficiently-confident ones as candidate probes under .oh/evals/probes/.

/retro is report-only. It emits its report to the terminal and writes no file at all. There is no durable lessons ledger and no dated run log; code is the source of truth, and a lesson that matters graduates to a probe under .oh/evals/probes/. A lesson that cannot be argued into a probe is spoken once and left in the transcript.

Use the self-contained helper in ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/ for deterministic checks; use ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/references/report-schema.md as the output contract.

When to use

  • /retro invoked explicitly to close a session.
  • Proactively, after a session that produced decisions, surprises, regressions, or failure modes the next agent would benefit from knowing.

When NOT to use

  • /audit harness — audits harness code health via four parallel sub-agents. That is a structural audit, not a behavioral/conversational pass.
  • /audit context — scores the default-loaded context budget across four dimensions. It trims files, not behaviors.
  • /audit skills — scores individual skills for staleness. It reviews skill quality, not session outcomes.
  • /wiki lint — health-checks the wiki corpus for staleness and broken links. It curates the wiki, not the session.
  • Trivial sessions — if the session contained only mechanical read-only queries or single-command invocations with no surprises, announce the skip and stop.

Key boundary: /retro is session-scoped reflection. The lint/audit skills above are the deep-dive tooling it points at — not what it runs. It is the only skill whose domain is current-session signals → falsifiable hypotheses → probe candidates.

Scope

Current conversation only. /retro does not read prior sessions or the ~/.claude/projects/... auto-memory store. It works from what is already in context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. today Changed · +23 lines 8dae7958d23a
  2. 4d ago First seen · 252 lines · 154 tokens per session scan A d5965c388103

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository mifunedev/openharness (36 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 154 tokens to every session and 3,825 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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