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Release Retrospective Runner

By pcliangx· pcliangx/AppGenesisForge· 0

Guide product leads through a structured retrospective after major or minor releases.

Installation

  1. Make sure Claude is on your device and in your terminal.

    Skills load from ~/.claude/skills/ when Claude Code starts up — so you need it on your machine first. If you don't have it yet, install it once with the command below, then run claude in any terminal to verify.

    One-time setup
    npm i -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

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When Claude uses it

Use when product-lead is about to run a release retrospective after a successful MAJOR or MINOR release push (PATCH skipped). Provides applicability gate, pre-conditions, 7-step execution sequence, anti-patterns, and the verification gate before commit. Pairs with template docs/reviews/retro-_TEMPLATE.md and slash /agf-release-retro.

What this skill does

This skill guides product leads through a structured retrospective after MAJOR or MINOR releases. It enforces a seven-step execution sequence with pre-condition checks, role-based self-reports, cost tracking, action-item inheritance limits, and a verification gate before committing the final retrospective document to the repository.

What it does

  • Version gating: Accepts only MAJOR (vX.0.0) and MINOR (vX.Y.0) releases; PATCH releases are rejected at the applicability gate.
  • Pre-condition validation: Confirms the version exists in CHANGELOG.md, as a git tag, and as a GitHub release before proceeding.
  • Template instantiation and pre-fill: Copies docs/reviews/retro-_TEMPLATE.md to docs/reviews/retro-vX.Y.Z-YYYY-MM-DD.md with version, date, and CHANGELOG link.
  • Self-report dispatch: Sends parallel prompts to code-reviewers, QA engineers, development roles, and tech-leads (if an ADR was included) to collect highlights, pain points, and action-item candidates.
  • Cost and token tracking: Requires the user to provide four /usage token counts (input, output, cache creation, cache read) and cost category from cost-budget.md; the retrospective cannot be marked complete without these figures.
  • Action-item inheritance enforcement: Tracks how many times each action item has carried over from the previous retro; items inherited twice must either be hardened (hooks, lints, required template fields) or explicitly dropped, preventing a third inheritance.
  • Cycle-time trend analysis: After three or more retrospectives, calculates feature cycle time from start date to release tag date and flags upward trends as process or scope issues.

How to use it

Trigger this skill by typing /agf-release-retro vX.Y.Z after pushing a MAJOR or MINOR release and creating its GitHub release. Provide the version tag in vX.Y.Z format. During execution, you will be asked to supply the real /usage token counts from your Claude session. The skill produces a final markdown file ready to commit to docs/reviews/ and optionally routes the retrospective to the content writer for internal documentation.

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