A retrospective tool that reviews project health, maintenance, and technical debt. Technical debt is the future work created by shortcuts, outdated dependencies, dead code, weak tests, or recurring failures.

Use it to inspect repository and CI health, identify improvements, create remediation work, and select quick fixes.

It brings scattered maintenance problems and workflow issues into one assessment before they become harder to fix.

retro — Skill for Claude Code by navapbc/digital-service-orchestra

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 navapbc/digital-service-orchestra

Claude Code

/plugin install dso

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dso, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 4 commands, 53 agents.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 4,856 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00183	$0.04856
Opus 5.5	$0.00073	$0.01942
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00037	$0.00971
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00486

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 12549377c78f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

plugins/dso/skills/retro/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Development Retrospective

Proactive project health assessment focused on maintainability, workflow efficiency, and technical debt. Analyzes metrics, identifies improvements, and creates a structured remediation plan.

Supports dryrun mode. Use /dso:dryrun /dso:retro to preview without changes.

Usage

/dso:retro    # Run full retrospective assessment

Phases

Flow: P1 (Health Assessment) → P2 (Codebase Review) → P3 (Findings Report)
  → [user approves scope] P4 (Epic Creation) → P5 (Quick Wins) → Complete
  → [user declines] End

Phase A: Health Assessment (/dso:retro)

Run the data-collection script to gather all metrics in one pass:

.claude/scripts/dso retro-gather.sh

Use --quick to skip slow checks (dependency freshness, plugin versions) when session usage is high.

The script outputs structured sections (=== SECTION_NAME ===) covering: cleanup, validation, ticket health/stats/open/blocked/orphaned, worktree staleness, outdated dependencies, session usage, hook error logs, timeout logs, plugin versions, test metrics, code metrics (including TODO-family comment scan), known issues counts, and CI shift-left data (recent run outcomes, failure rate, failed job names).

Post-Collection Analysis

After reviewing the script output:

Error log triage: For each unique error pattern in HOOK_ERROR_LOG, propose a ticket bug. Use AskUserQuestion to confirm which warrant creation. After triage, truncate the logs.
Plugin updates: For any outdated plugins, never recommend @latest tags — always recommend specific pinned versions. Add as P3 cleanup items.
Friction Suggestions: If the output contains a SUGGESTION_DATA section, review the frequency-ranked clusters. Each cluster represents a recurring workflow friction point captured by suggestion-record.sh. For each cluster:
- Note the file, pattern, and proposed_edit fields.
- Clusters with count >= 3 are high-signal and should become P2 improvement tasks.
- Clusters with count < 3 are low-signal and can be grouped into a single P3 cleanup task.
- If no SUGGESTION_DATA section is present, skip this step.
Report the structured health inventory (validation status, ticket health, worktree count, dependency freshness, session usage, error triage summary, plugin versions, friction suggestion summary).

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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.

2mo ago First seen · 332 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 12549377c78f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository navapbc/digital-service-orchestra (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 4,856 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Analytics and metrics Project management

retro next to 6 skills from other repositories
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retronavapbc/digital-service-orchestra	Skill	6	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	183	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	135k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	today	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	4d ago	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	316k	7d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	today	MIT	A	95	Claude Code