Weekly Engineering Retro
garrytan/gstack
Builds a weekly engineering retrospective from git history: commit counts, per-person contributions, work patterns and code quality numbers over a chosen window.
Use after shipping or completing a design project — structured reflection on what worked, what didn't, and what taste decisions landed.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers design-retrospective --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-retrospective .claude/skills/design-retrospective && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "design-retrospective" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospective into .claude/skills/design-retrospective/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-retrospective", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospectiveType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers design-retrospective --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-retrospective .agents/skills/design-retrospective && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "design-retrospective" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospective into .agents/skills/design-retrospective/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-retrospective", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers design-retrospective --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-retrospective .cursor/skills/design-retrospective && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "design-retrospective" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospective into .cursor/skills/design-retrospective/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-retrospective", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git --path skills/design-retrospective--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers design-retrospective --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-retrospective .gemini/skills/design-retrospective && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "design-retrospective" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospective into .gemini/skills/design-retrospective/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-retrospective", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers design-retrospectiveInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-retrospective .github/skills/design-retrospective && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "design-retrospective" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospective into .github/skills/design-retrospective/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-retrospective", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install Owl-Listener/designpowers design-retrospective --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/design-retrospective .opencode/skills/design-retrospective && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "design-retrospective" agent skill from https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designpowers/tree/main/skills/design-retrospective into .opencode/skills/design-retrospective/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "design-retrospective", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
design-retrospectiveUse after shipping or completing a design project — structured reflection on what worked, what didn't, and what taste decisions landed.
Design Retrospective is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designpowers. Use after shipping or completing a design project — structured reflection on what worked, what didn't, and what taste decisions landed. Adds observations to the design record (design-memory) about how the user designs — a descriptive journal, not preferences applied to future projects
Its SKILL.md is about 2.3k 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: An agent design team you control: 10 agents that run an inclusive design process while you direct. The licence is MIT.
10 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit cb00757. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Design Retrospective loads about 2.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 77 tokens; SKILL.md has 629 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from Owl-Listener/designpowers at commit cb00757, republished under its MIT licence (© Owl-Listener). 629 words, ~2,306 tokens.
.claude/skills/design-retrospective/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).A retrospective is not a post-mortem. Post-mortems examine failures. Retrospectives examine the whole process — wins, misses, surprises, and taste evolution. This skill runs after a project ships and turns hindsight into foresight for the next one.
verification-before-shipping passes and the project is declared completeBefore reflecting, assemble the full record:
design-state.md — the decisions log, handoff chain, and open questionsFor each major design decision that survived to shipping:
### What Worked
| Decision | Why It Worked | Evidence |
|----------|--------------|----------|
| [Decision from state log] | [Why this was the right call] | [User approved, critic passed, no fix rounds needed] |
| ... | ... | ... |Look for:
For decisions that required rework, debate, or user correction:
### What Didn't Work
| Decision | What Went Wrong | Root Cause | Fix Rounds |
|----------|----------------|------------|------------|
| [Original decision] | [What happened] | [Why it happened — misread brief? ignored taste? wrong assumption?] | [How many iterations to fix] |
| ... | ... | ... | ... |Look for:
Evaluate the workflow itself, not just the output:
### Process Assessment
**Pipeline efficiency:**
- Agents dispatched: [X of 10]
- Agents skipped: [list and why]
- Fix rounds: [count] — [were they necessary or preventable?]
- Mode used: [direct/auto/mixed] — [did the mode serve the project?]
**Handoff quality:**
- Were handoff messages specific enough?
- Did any agent miss context from the previous agent?
- Were there gaps where information was lost between agents?
**Debate moments:**
- Were there decisions that should have been debated but weren't?
- Were debates held that didn't need to be?
- Did debate outcomes hold, or were they revisited?
**User engagement:**
- How often did the user override or redirect?
- Were overrides concentrated in one area? (signals a systematic gap)
- Did the user switch from auto to direct? (signals the system missed something)Review the Design Debt Register from design-state.md:
### Design Debt
**Register status:**
- Total items created: [count]
- Resolved: [count] ([percentage])
- Accepted: [count] — [were these the right trade-offs?]
- Still Open: [count] — [should any escalate?]
- Escalated during project: [count]
**Debt patterns:**
- Most affected persona: [name] — [X items affect them]
- Most common source: [design-critic/accessibility-reviewer]
- Average age of open items: [duration]
**Debt health:**
- [ ] Are we resolving debt faster than we create it?
- [ ] Are the same types of issues recurring? (signals a systemic problem)
- [ ] Did any accepted debt turn out to matter more than expected?Note what this project revealed about how the user designs, to add to the observational record. This is describing the user's habits, not setting rules for future work:
### What this project revealed (observations for the record)
**Recurring decisions reinforced:**
- [Observation] — now seen in [N] projects, per [evidence]
**New habits or inclinations noticed:**
- [Observation] — first seen here, per [evidence]
**Things the user moved away from:**
- [Observation] — corrected/reversed because [reason]
**Surprises:**
- [What was characteristic or unexpected about how they decided] — e.g. chose [X] over [Y]
_(All recorded as descriptions of how the user designs — never as preferences to apply to future work.)_What should the next project know?
### Carry Forward
**For the next project:**
- [Lesson learned that applies broadly]
- [Process improvement to try]
- [Taste insight to remember]
**For specific agents:**
| Agent | Lesson |
|-------|--------|
| **design-lead** | [e.g., "User prefers to see colour options before committing — show swatches, not descriptions"] |
| **design-strategist** | [e.g., "Spend more time on the navigation model early — it affected everything downstream"] |
| **content-writer** | [e.g., "User reads everything — content quality matters more than expected"] |
| ... | ... |
**Open questions for next time:**
- [Unresolved question that might be relevant in future projects]Compile everything into a single document:
# Design Retrospective: [Project Name]
**Date:** [YYYY-MM-DD]
**Duration:** [How long the project ran]
**Mode:** [direct/auto/mixed]
**Agents used:** [X of 10]
## Summary
[3-5 sentences: what was built, what worked, what was hard, what we learned]
## What Worked
[From Step 2]
## What Didn't Work
[From Step 3]
## Process Assessment
[From Step 4]
## Design Debt
[From Step 5]
## Taste Evolution
[From Step 6]
## Carry Forward
[From Step 7]Save to: [project-root]/design-retrospective.md
After the retrospective is written:
design-memory to add this project's observations to the recordShow the retrospective to the user as a summary:
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DESIGN RETROSPECTIVE: [Project Name]
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
WINS:
• [Top 2-3 things that worked well]
MISSES:
• [Top 2-3 things that needed rework]
TASTE LEARNED:
• [Key taste insights from this project]
DESIGN DEBT:
• Open: [count] | Resolved: [count] | Accepted: [count]
• Most affected: [persona]
CARRY FORWARD:
• [Top 2-3 lessons for next time]
EFFICIENCY:
• Fix rounds: [count]
• User overrides: [count]
• Agents used: [X of 10]
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Your taste profile has been updated.
Next project starts smarter.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━using-designpowers (after project completion or on user request)design-state.md (including Design Debt Register), taste profile, critique documents, verification results[project-root]/design-retrospective.mddesign-memory (to update taste profile with learnings)design-memory, verification-before-shipping, designpowers-critique| Pattern | Why It Fails |
|---|---|
| Skipping retrospective because the project "went fine" | Even smooth projects teach you something. "Why did this go well?" is as valuable as "why did this go wrong?" |
| Blaming agents for wrong decisions | Agents are tools. If the output was wrong, the question is what context they were missing, not what they did wrong |
| Only looking at what failed | Wins are data too. Understanding what worked is how you replicate it |
| Not adding observations to the design record | Each project should leave the user a richer mirror of how they design. The record isn't applied to future work, but it's only honest if it's kept current |
| Running retrospective in auto mode | Retrospectives need user reflection. Always run in direct mode with pauses for user input |
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Just SKILL.md in skills/design-retrospective of Owl-Listener/designpowers.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit cb00757
Design Retrospective next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design Retrospective this skillOwl-Listener/designpowers | 251 | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Weekly Engineering Retrogarrytan/gstack | 136k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Dough Execute Planterryyin/lizard | 2.5k | — | ~4.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Oral Paper SkillAdkid-Zephyr/oral-paper-skill | 357 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Deck Retroasheshgoplani/agent-deck | 1.1k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Dough Execution Retrospectiveterryyin/lizard | 2.5k | — | ~4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence |
garrytan/gstack
Builds a weekly engineering retrospective from git history: commit counts, per-person contributions, work patterns and code quality numbers over a chosen window.
terryyin/lizard
Executes one selected story or bounded retrospective correction through an executable plan, or one authorized planless slice from a selected simple story or a contextual instruction, with…
Adkid-Zephyr/oral-paper-skill
Help authors learn from exemplary ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS papers through source-linked manuscript comparisons, concrete writing and experiment suggestions, and guided reflection.
asheshgoplani/agent-deck
Run a fully local agent-deck retrospective over the user's own transcripts, Recall index and logs.
terryyin/lizard
Reviews planned, completed planless quick, or quick-to-planned execution against original intent, aggregate commits, current whole-product architecture, and tests, including after cleanup.
HughYau/qiushi-skill
批评与自我批评:在工作完成、阶段验收、收到批评或同类错误反复出现时,对成果和过程做诚实、具体、基于事实的审视,输出可执行的改进项,并处理外来批评而不辩解。触发信号包括 review、复盘、审查、"帮我看看有没有问题"、"你确定吗";任务刚开始或只是单步查询时不触发。
Owl-Listener/designpowers
A skill your agent uses when designing for user preferences — motion sensitivity, contrast needs, colour schemes, text sizing, information density, or any interface behaviour that should adapt to…
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A skill your agent uses when a design direction is uncertain, when the team could go multiple ways, or when the user wants to see competing approaches argued before committing — orchestrates…
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A skill your agent uses when critique or review produces deferred findings, when checking accumulated design compromises, or when deciding what to address in the next iteration.
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You MUST use this before any creative or design work — building features, creating components, designing interfaces, modifying user-facing behaviour.
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A skill your agent uses when design work is complete and needs to be communicated to engineering — creates specifications, documents rationale, accessibility requirements, and interaction details in…
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A skill your agent uses when the user wants to evaluate something that ALREADY EXISTS rather than build something new — "review this", "audit this screen", "what's wrong with this page", "is this…
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Use after shipping or completing a design project — structured reflection on what worked, what didn't, and what taste decisions landed. Design Retrospective is an agent skill from Owl-Listener/designpowers. Use after shipping or completing a design project — structured reflection on what worked, what didn't, and what taste decisions landed.
Design Retrospective fits situations like: tasks that involve Retrospectives.
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/design-retrospective in Owl-Listener/designpowers) into .claude/skills/design-retrospective in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/design-retrospective in Owl-Listener/designpowers) into .agents/skills/design-retrospective in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Owl-Listener/designpowers --skill design-retrospective -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/design-retrospective, .gemini/skills/design-retrospective, .github/skills/design-retrospective and .opencode/skills/design-retrospective in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Design Retrospective is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Design Retrospective is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
About 2.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 9.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Design Retrospective: Weekly Engineering Retro (garrytan/gstack, 136k stars), Dough Execute Plan (terryyin/lizard, 2.5k stars), Oral Paper Skill (Adkid-Zephyr/oral-paper-skill, 357 stars) and Deck Retro (asheshgoplani/agent-deck, 1.1k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Owl-Listener (a GitHub user) maintains it in Owl-Listener/designpowers, which has 251 GitHub stars. The repository holds 33 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 23, 2026.
Source: Owl-Listener/designpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.