retro

retro is a skill for Claude Code from xbklairith/kisune. It costs 95 tokens per session (1,338 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A retrospective tool that reads the current project's coding-session log and suggests changes to the agent's environment. A retrospective is a review of what went well or poorly after a piece of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing a difficult coding session and improving the setup used by the coding agent.
Why use it?
It helps explain slow or painful sessions and turn those observations into changes for future sessions. The description does not specify how the suggested changes are applied.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the dev-workflow plugin — 28 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing a difficult coding session and improving the setup used by the coding agent.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 1 command, 8 agents, 1 hook, 1 plugin.

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.

agentmods badge for retro

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/xbklairith/kisune/retro/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/xbklairith/kisune/retro)
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.

agentmods 80×15 button for retro

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 95 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,338 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 $0.00095 $0.01338
Opus 5.5 $0.00038 $0.00535
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00134

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3a7a5257a067, 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/session_log.py), 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.

dev-workflow/skills/retro/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retro

Overview

A retro improves the environment the next agent works in, not the code from the last session. The evidence is the session log; the output is a short, severity-ordered list of environment changes, each concrete enough to apply in one step.

Core principle: a check beats a rule. A mistake a machine can detect gets a check (lint rule, type check, test, hook, CI job). Prose in CLAUDE.md is the last resort, because every line there is loaded into every session and is obeyed only probabilistically.

1. Read the primary source

Read the actual log, not a recollection of it. Claude Code keeps logs per project; read this project's only:

python3 <this skill>/scripts/session_log.py list            # sessions for cwd's project
python3 <this skill>/scripts/session_log.py show latest     # or a SESSION_ID from list
python3 <this skill>/scripts/session_log.py show <id> --full  # include the agent's prose
  • Never glob across ~/.claude/projects/. Other directories there are private chats from unrelated projects. The script derives the one directory from the project path; use it rather than find/grep over the parent.
  • If the user hands you a written log or notes instead, use that.
  • Redact. Logs contain pasted keys and tokens. Never quote a secret value in the retro; name where it was exposed.

The show summary flags the usual waste: files read repeatedly, commands re-run, failed tool calls, and how far into the session the first edit came.

2. Find candidates

For each friction point in the log, ask which category removes it next time:

Category Signal in the log Change
Automated checks The agent made a mistake a tool could catch; or the repo has no guardrail at all (no hook, no CI running lint/type/test) Wire the check. First read the repo's existing lint/check/CI config: a check that exists but is unwired or broken is the finding, not a new one
Review rules The mistake is a judgement call and review missed it Add it to what the reviewer reads (the repo's CODING_STANDARDS.md or the review checklist the team runs)
Navigation Long searches for a file or fact; hidden coupling between files A one-line pointer in the place the agent looked first
Steering trims CLAUDE.md lines that change no behavior ("write clean code"), or rules a check now enforces Delete them
Tool economy Expensive or repeated tool calls; a noisy CLI or MCP A script, a flag, a narrower command
Information access A fact the agent needed but could not see (server logs, a dashboard, a schema) Give read access: tee logs to a file, a read-only token, a schema dump
Skills The same multi-step procedure re-derived each session A skill (write it with skill-maker)

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 11d ago First seen · 75 lines · 95 tokens per session scan A 3a7a5257a067

Subscribe to this mod's changes

retro is a skill published in the GitHub repository xbklairith/kisune (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 95 tokens to every session and 1,338 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-10-07.

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