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sprint-retrospective — Claude Code skill: run sprint retros

Runs a sprint or milestone retrospective and turns it into a few owned actions instead of another template ritual.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓
npx skills add akillness/jeo-skills --skill sprint-retrospective -a claude-code
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What sprint-retrospective does

The skill walks a retrospective from intake to brief. It first classifies the request: cadence (sprint, release, milestone, project phase), team shape, current pain, and what evidence is on hand. Then it picks exactly one primary mode — live-facilitated-retro, async-first-retro, hybrid-retro, milestone-postmortem, or action-review-reset. It will not blend modes in one answer.

Next comes a review of prior actions: done, stale, blocked, or worth dropping. Observations are collected through one prompt family — start / stop / continue, 4Ls, mad / sad / glad, or custom prompts tied to quality and handoffs. Themes get merged down to three to five, and actions are capped at three, each with an owner, a due date, and a success signal.

When a team keeps generating actions and closing none, the skill switches to action-review-reset. Backlog planning goes to task-planning, sizing to task-estimation, daily sync to standup-meeting, and incident forensics to dedicated skills. That last handoff matters: a retro is not the place for a deep outage investigation.

What it helps with

  • run a retrospective after a finished sprint
  • pick a retro format instead of reusing a stale template
  • sort prior actions into done, stale, blocked and dropped
  • collect team observations without turning it into blame
  • turn recurring complaints into a couple of process experiments

Example prompts for the agent

  • Run a sprint retrospective for a distributed team and give me themes plus owned actions
  • Our old retro actions never closed — do an action-review-reset and tell me what to keep or drop
  • I need a milestone postmortem for the release: what broke in the workflow and what we change next

How to install sprint-retrospective

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add akillness/jeo-skills --skill sprint-retrospective -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/sprint-retrospective/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/sprint-retrospective/

Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways

Questions about sprint-retrospective

How do I install sprint-retrospective in Claude?

Run npx skills add akillness/jeo-skills --skill sprint-retrospective -a claude-code. The skill lands at ~/.claude/skills/sprint-retrospective/SKILL.md.

What does sprint-retrospective do?

It facilitates a sprint, release, or milestone retrospective: picks a facilitation mode, reviews previous actions, clusters themes, and leaves a few actions with owners and due dates.

What does this skill not cover?

Backlog planning routes to task-planning, sizing to task-estimation, daily coordination to standup-meeting, and incident analysis to dedicated skills.

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