# retrospective

Generates sprint and milestone retrospectives from task plans, git commits, and blockers. Helps capture action items for upcoming iterations.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 433 installs · ★ 27473
- Author: Donchitos
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-19
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/donchitos-retrospective

## What it does

This skill evaluates sprint or milestone outcomes by comparing planned work against actual delivery. It reads sprint plans from `production/sprints/` or milestone goals from `production/milestones/`, then checks `production/sprint-status.yaml` alongside `git log`. The report breaks down completed, modified, carryover, and unplanned tasks.

The skill enforces an explicit input check. If required artifacts are missing, it refuses to guess velocity and marks sections as `NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`. It also checks the repository for `TODO`, `FIXME`, and `HACK` comment counts to track technical debt over time. If your project lacks sprint files in the `production/` directory, you must supply details manually or abort the run.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill retrospective -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/retrospective/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill retrospective -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill retrospective -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios retrospective
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill retrospective -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --path .claude/skills/retrospective
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios --skill retrospective -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Donchitos/Claude-Code-Game-Studios/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/retrospective/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- Reconcile finished deliverables against the original sprint plan
- Extract reported blockers into next-sprint action items
- Track `TODO` and `FIXME` comment counts across the codebase
- Compare velocity trends against previous retrospectives

## Example prompts
- /retrospective sprint-1
- /retrospective milestone-alpha
- /retrospective

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: retrospective
description: "Sprint or milestone retrospective from completed work, velocity, blockers. Actionable insights for the next iteration."
argument-hint: "[sprint-N|milestone-name]"
user-invocable: true
allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Write, AskUserQuestion, Bash(bash "*/.claude/skills/retrospective/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config *), Bash(git log *)
model: sonnet
---

!`bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/../../hooks/yaml-helper.sh" resolve_config --keys automation,workflow,qa.level`

# Retrospective



Every `AskUserQuestion` call follows `.claude/docs/automation-modes.md`
(collaborative asks always · guided major-only · autonomous logs and proceeds;
`automation_always_ask` categories always prompt).

## Insufficient input — check this before producing any report

**If the inputs this skill needs do not exist, the answer is "could not run" —
not a filled-in report.** Check first, and stop if the check fails.

1. List the inputs this skill reads (data files, prior reports, profiler output,
   test results, registries, source code).
2. For each, record `FOUND` or `ABSENT` — not "assumed present".
3. If any input required for a section is ABSENT, that section is
   **`NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`**. Do not estimate it, do not infer it from an
   adjacent artifact, and do not leave a mandated cell to be filled by whoever
   reads the template next.
4. If **every** required input is ABSENT, stop and report
   **`NOT ASSESSED — NO DATA`** as the whole verdict, naming what was missing and
   which skill produces it.

**A verdict of `NOT ASSESSED` is a success.** It is the correct, useful answer to
"what does the data say?" when there is no data. The failure mode this prevents is
specific: a report whose verdict enum has no "could not run" state produces
**false clean passes** — an asset audit returning COMPLIANT on a project with no
assets and no standards, or a performance profile reporting ">99% headroom against
a 16.67ms budget" with zero profiler data and no budget ever set.

**Absence of evidence is never evidence of absence.** A scan that finds no
matches because there are no files to scan has not verified anything. Say which of
the two happened — a reader cannot tell from a green result.

---

## Phase 1: Parse Arguments

Determine whether this is a sprint retrospective (`sprint-N`) or a milestone retrospective (`milestone-name`).

---

## Phase 1b: Check for Existing Retrospective

Before loading any data, glob for an existing retrospective file:

- For sprint retrospectives: `production/retrospectives/retro-[sprint-slug]-*.md`
  (also check `production/sprints/sprint-[N]-retrospective.md` as an alternate location)
- For milestone retrospectives: `production/retrospectives/retro-[milestone-name]-*.md`

If a matching file is found, use `AskUserQuestion`:
- Prompt: "An existing retrospective was found: [filename]. How do you want to proceed?"
- Options:
  - `[A] Update existing — load it and add/revise sections with new data`
```
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