retrospect

retrospect is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from white1024/agent-nextup. It costs 69 tokens per session (1,111 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for reviewing a completed stretch of work and turning problems into concrete changes for the next session. It uses records such as blocked tasks, failed tool calls, overrides, and reopened work as evidence.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a difficult session or during a retrospective to classify failures, update instructions, improve checks, and record decisions.
Why use it?
It prevents recurring problems from being forgotten or reduced to vague lessons. Mechanical problems are directed toward automated checks where possible.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it after a difficult session or during a retrospective to classify failures, update instructions, improve checks, and record decisions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/white1024/agent-nextup/retrospect
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 white1024/agent-nextup --skill retrospect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/white1024/agent-nextup

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 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,111 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 $0.00069 $0.01111
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00444
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00222
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00111

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7d9a2775b34d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retrospect 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 4d 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.

crates/nextup-core/skills/retrospect/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

retrospect — improve the ground the next session stands on

Goal: every friction this stretch of work hit lands in exactly one destination that changes what the next session does — and the mechanical ones land as checks, not sentences.

1. Gather the evidence

  • Call post_mortem_candidates first. It derives candidates from hard ledger signals — overrides, blocked tasks, failed tool calls, refused calls — with the evidence attached. These are the floor: every one of them gets a verdict.
  • Then read the rest of the stretch: recent ledger entries, tasks that were reopened or blocked, superseded decisions, and the conversation if you are still in it.
  • Read what agents here actually load: AGENTS.md outside the engine's block, the module guides in nextup_docs/modules/, memory, and lessons in .nextup/rules.json.
  • Answer the project's own retrospective questions as you go — flywheel.postMortemPrompts in .nextup/rules.json.

Done when every candidate from the first call carries a note of what actually happened, and every prompt has an answer.

2. Classify each finding

Ask these in order; the first yes decides the destination.

  1. Could a machine have caught it? A wrong command, a broken link, a forbidden pattern, a value out of range, a file in the wrong place. The fix is a check — a test, a lint rule, a hook, a CI step. Look for the project's own check commands first: one that exists but is not wired in, or passes without checking anything, is itself the finding. A project with no automated check at all is a finding too.
  2. Was the information out of reach? A log nobody could see, a server's output, a document the agent never found. The fix is access, or a pointer: one line in the right steering file naming where to look.
  3. Was it a judgement call that went the wrong way? A lesson — an actionable rule for next time.
  4. Was a line crossed that must never be crossed? A boundary.
  5. Was an approach tried and rightly dropped? A rejection, so nobody proposes it again.
  6. Was a tool call slow or wasteful? A lesson or a pointer naming the cheaper route.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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. 4d ago First seen · 74 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 7d9a2775b34d

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retrospect is a skill published in the GitHub repository white1024/agent-nextup (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 1,111 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-10-19.

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