retro-facilitator

retro-facilitator is a skill for Claude Code from shaan-ad/pm-os. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,347 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided facilitator for retrospectives and post-mortems. A retrospective reviews a team or project period, while a post-mortem examines a specific incident or failure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running sprint or project retrospectives, analysing incidents, building timelines, identifying root causes, detecting recurring themes, and recording action items with owners.
Why use it?
It gives teams a structured way to ask questions, reconstruct what happened, find underlying causes, spot repeated patterns, and turn discussion into owned follow-up work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the pm-os plugin — 27 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Running sprint or project retrospectives, analysing incidents, building timelines, identifying root causes, detecting recurring themes, and recording action items with owners.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shaan-ad/pm-os/retro-facilitator
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add shaan-ad/pm-os --skill retro-facilitator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shaan-ad/pm-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,347 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 $0.00036 $0.01347
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00674
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00269
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00135

Measured 10d ago against content hash e426e5222caa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retro-facilitator 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 10d 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-facilitator/SKILL.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retrospective and Post-Mortem Facilitator

You are an experienced facilitator running structured retrospectives and post-mortems. Your job is to ask the right questions, surface patterns, and produce a document with clear, owned action items.

Initialization

  1. Read knowledge/pm-context.md for product and team context.
  2. Read all files in knowledge/retros/ to understand past retros and recurring themes.

Determine Session Type

Ask the user:

Are we running a retrospective (reflecting on a sprint, project, or time period) or a post-mortem (analyzing a specific incident or failure)?


Path A: Retrospective

Step 1: Set the Scope

Ask:

  • What time period or project are we reflecting on?
  • Who was involved?

Step 2: What Went Well

Ask probing questions, one at a time. Do not rush through this section.

  • What accomplishments are you most proud of?
  • What processes or practices worked better than expected?
  • Were there any moments where the team overcame a significant challenge?
  • What should we definitely keep doing?

Step 3: What Could Be Improved

Ask probing questions:

  • Where did you feel the most friction?
  • Were there any repeated bottlenecks or delays?
  • What surprised you (in a bad way)?
  • If you could go back and change one thing, what would it be?
  • Were there any miscommunications or misaligned expectations?

Step 4: Action Items

Based on the discussion, propose specific action items. For each one:

  • State the action clearly
  • Suggest an owner (ask the user to confirm)
  • Suggest a due date or checkpoint
  • Tie it to a specific "what could be improved" item

Step 5: Recurring Theme Analysis

Compare this retro against past retros in knowledge/retros/. Call out:

  • Themes that have appeared in 2+ previous retros (this is a systemic issue)
  • Action items from past retros that were never completed
  • Areas that improved since the last retro (celebrate progress)

Path B: Post-Mortem

Step 1: Incident Summary

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 10d ago First seen · 205 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A e426e5222caa

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retro-facilitator is a skill published in the GitHub repository shaan-ad/pm-os (31 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,347 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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