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Rewrite retrospective skill to require structural countermeasures#97

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improve-retrospective-skill
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@ikuwow ikuwow commented Mar 13, 2026

Summary

Rewrite the /retrospective skill to produce actionable, structural countermeasures instead of vague improvement suggestions.

The previous version tended to output compliance-based conclusions like "follow the existing rule more carefully" or "pay more attention," which provide no real prevention. The new version requires every countermeasure to be an external enforcement mechanism (rule addition, hook, linter, script, etc.) and explicitly prohibits willpower-based fixes.

What changed

  • Replaced the 4 abstract analysis categories (communication issues, improvements, rule proposals, project improvements) with a 2-step format: list problem behaviors, then propose structural countermeasures
  • Added "Prohibited Countermeasures" section banning compliance/attention/memory-based fixes
  • Added "Prohibited Root Causes" section banning "rule was not followed" as a root cause
  • Enforced compact output format (problem-countermeasure pairs only)

Motivation

In practice, the retrospective output was too long and ended up attributing issues to the model not following existing rules. This is not useful because:

  1. The model cannot reliably improve its own attention or compliance through self-reflection
  2. If a rule exists but the model violated it, the rule or its enforcement is the problem, not the model's diligence

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ikuwow and others added 2 commits March 13, 2026 13:02
Replace abstract improvement suggestions with concrete problem-behavior
to structural-countermeasure pairs. Explicitly prohibit compliance-based
or willpower-based countermeasures.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@ikuwow ikuwow marked this pull request as ready for review March 13, 2026 04:11
@ikuwow ikuwow merged commit e36354b into main Mar 13, 2026
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