Agent skill

Sprint Retro Facilitator

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Run a sprint retrospective that produces real change — themes from what actually happened, honest start/stop/continue, and owned action items, not a vent session.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install Sprint Retro Facilitator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill sprint-retro-facilitator -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills sprint-retro-facilitator --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator .claude/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
sprint-retro-facilitator
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~973 tokens
SKILL.md length
482 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Run a sprint retrospective that produces real change — themes from what actually happened, honest start/stop/continue, and owned action items, not a vent session.

  • Works in 5 steps: Start from evidence. Themes come from… → Separate systemic from one-off. A… → Few actions, owned. 2–4 max, each with a… → …
  • Asked to facilitate a retro
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: A Retro That… and Output Format, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Sprint Retro Facilitator is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a sprint retrospective that produces real change — themes from what actually happened, honest start/stop/continue, and owned action items, not a vent session. Use when asked to facilitate a retro, run a sprint retrospective, prep retro themes, or turn our sprint into a retro. Produces the data-grounded themes (from done/WIP/blocked work and any flow metrics), a start/stop/continue, 2–4 owned action items with checks, and a follow-up on last retro's actions so retros stop repeating themselves.

Its SKILL.md is about 970 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering Retrospectives. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked to facilitate a retro
  • Run a sprint retrospective
  • Prep retro themes
  • Turn our sprint into a retro

Example prompts

  • “/sprint-retro-facilitator”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Start from evidence. Themes come from the actual work — carried-over tickets, recurring blockers, a spike in cycle time — so the…
  2. Separate systemic from one-off. A blocker that hit three sprints running is a process theme; a freak incident isn't.
  3. Few actions, owned. 2–4 max, each with a name and a success check. A retro with 9 actions changes nothing.
  4. Close the last loop first. Review previous actions before generating new ones — accountability is what makes retros work.
  5. Blameless. Findings are about the system, not people; "the deploy process let a bad config through," not "X broke prod."

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Sprint Retro Facilitator loads about 973 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 132 tokens; SKILL.md has 482 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~132
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~973

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 482 words, ~973 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
sprint-retro-facilitator
description
Run a sprint retrospective that produces real change — themes from what actually happened, honest start/stop/continue, and owned action items, not a vent session. Use when asked to facilitate a retro, run a sprint retrospective, prep retro themes, or turn our sprint into a retro. Produces the data-grounded themes (from done/WIP/blocked work and any flow metrics), a start/stop/continue, 2–4 owned action items with checks, and a follow-up on last retro's actions so retros stop repeating themselves.

Sprint Retro Facilitator

Retros fail two ways: they become a feelings-dump with no actions, or they generate actions no one owns and nothing changes — so next sprint has the same complaints. This grounds the retro in what actually happened (the tickets, the blockers, the metrics), pulls themes from evidence rather than the loudest voice, and produces a small number of owned actions — then holds last retro's actions accountable so the loop actually closes.

What This Skill Produces

  • Evidence-grounded themes — patterns drawn from the sprint's done/WIP/blocked work and flow signals, not vibes
  • Start / Stop / Continue — concrete, tied to the themes
  • 2–4 action items — each with an owner and a "how we'll know it worked" check (fewer, real ones beat a long list)
  • Last retro's follow-up — did the previous actions happen, and did they help?

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The sprint data — completed vs planned, tickets that were blocked/carried over, any incidents
  • Flow signals (optional) — cycle time, throughput, WIP aging if you track them
  • Team sentiment — anything the team already raised (or run it as prompts to gather)
  • Last retro's actions — so we can check them (a retro that ignores its own history repeats it)

Framework: A Retro That Changes Something

  1. Start from evidence. Themes come from the actual work — carried-over tickets, recurring blockers, a spike in cycle time — so the discussion isn't just who's loudest.
  2. Separate systemic from one-off. A blocker that hit three sprints running is a process theme; a freak incident isn't.
  3. Few actions, owned. 2–4 max, each with a name and a success check. A retro with 9 actions changes nothing.
  4. Close the last loop first. Review previous actions before generating new ones — accountability is what makes retros work.
  5. Blameless. Findings are about the system, not people; "the deploy process let a bad config through," not "X broke prod."
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Output Format

Retro — Sprint [n]

Since last retro: [previous actions → happened? helped?]

Themes (from the data)
  • [theme] — evidence: [tickets/metric]. Systemic or one-off?
Start / Stop / Continue
  • Start: … · Stop: … · Continue: …
Actions (owned)
ActionOwnerHow we'll know it workedBy

Quality Checks

  • Themes cite actual sprint evidence (tickets/metrics), not just opinions
  • Systemic patterns are distinguished from one-offs
  • Actions are 2–4, each with a named owner and a success check
  • Last retro's actions are reviewed before new ones are set
  • Framing is blameless — system and process, not individuals

Anti-Patterns

  • A vent session with no actions — cathartic, useless.
  • Nine action items with no owners — nothing changes.
  • Ignoring last retro — guarantees the same issues recur.
  • Blame — turns the retro into something people stop being honest in.
  • Themes from the loudest voice instead of the data.

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Facilitate our sprint retro from these tickets and metrics."
  • "Run a retrospective — here's what got done and what got blocked."
  • "Prep retro themes and a start/stop/continue for sprint 14."
  • "Help me run a retro that actually leads to change."

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/sprint-retro-facilitator of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Sprint Retro Facilitator

What does Sprint Retro Facilitator do?

Run a sprint retrospective that produces real change — themes from what actually happened, honest start/stop/continue, and owned action items, not a vent session. Sprint Retro Facilitator is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Run a sprint retrospective that produces real change — themes from what actually happened, honest start/stop/continue, and owned action items, not a vent session.

When should I use Sprint Retro Facilitator?

Sprint Retro Facilitator fits situations like: asked to facilitate a retro; run a sprint retrospective; prep retro themes; turn our sprint into a retro.

How do I install Sprint Retro Facilitator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill sprint-retro-facilitator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/sprint-retro-facilitator in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Sprint Retro Facilitator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill sprint-retro-facilitator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/sprint-retro-facilitator in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Sprint Retro Facilitator in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill sprint-retro-facilitator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator, .gemini/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator, .github/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator and .opencode/skills/sprint-retro-facilitator in your project.

What does Sprint Retro Facilitator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Sprint Retro Facilitator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Sprint Retro Facilitator access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Sprint Retro Facilitator safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Sprint Retro Facilitator use?

Sprint Retro Facilitator is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Sprint Retro Facilitator use?

About 973 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Sprint Retro Facilitator?

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Who maintains Sprint Retro Facilitator?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.