retro

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After finishing work, answer "anything you would do better in retrospect ?" Use when the user types /retro.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the retro skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by blockmatic/basilic in .agents/skills/workflow/retro/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Answer this question about the work just completed (this session, the last plan, or the diff in context):

anything you would do better in retrospect ?

Reply in chat only—never create files unless the user asks to apply a change.

  1. Scope: The work that just shipped or the plan just executed—not a career retrospective, not a generic process lecture
  2. Be specific: Name files, APIs, grep patterns, leftover folders, APIs you taught vs what the app still calls. Skip items that were the right call
  3. Actionable: Each item implies a different next action (rewrite, delete, document, don't migrate). If you would not change it, omit it
  4. Honest: Include mistakes (broken snippets, substring grep, hunting dirs that were already gone)
  5. Short: A few bullets. No preamble. Do not offer to implement unless asked

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