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/printing-press-retro

Use when the user asks to retro, run a retrospective, file findings, or improve the Printing Press after a printed-CLI run. Trigger phrases: "retro", "retrospective", "what went wrong", "improve the press", "post-mortem", "lessons learned", "what can we improve", "file a retro",

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$ npx -y skills add mvanhorn/cli-printing-press --skill printing-press-retro --agent claude-code

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  • Fires itselfAuto-invocation. Claude auto-loads it when your prompt matches the work.Auto-invocation is when the right skill fires by itself at the right moment, driven by a FLOW.md router and a hook, instead of you invoking it by name. It is the difference between a skill being installed and a skill actually getting used.Read the full definition →
  • You can call itInvoke it directly when you want it.
  • Slash command/printing-press-retro

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Use when the user asks to retro, run a retrospective, file findings, or improve the Printing Press after a printed-CLI run. Trigger phrases: "retro", "retrospective", "what went wrong", "improve the press", "post-mortem", "lessons learned", "what can we improve", "file a retro",

SKILL.md

printing-press-retro.SKILL.md
name: printing-press-retro
description: >
  Use when the user asks to retro, run a retrospective, file findings,
  or improve the Printing Press after a printed-CLI run. Trigger phrases:
  "retro", "retrospective", "what went wrong", "improve the press",
  "post-mortem", "lessons learned", "what can we improve", "file a retro",
  "submit findings". Do not use for printed-CLI polish or a single-CLI fix.
version: 0.1.0
allowed-tools:
  - Bash
  - Read
  - Glob
  - Grep
  - Write
  - Agent
  - AskUserQuestion
created_by: user

/printing-press-retro

**Result:** A scrubbed retro document and, when the issue gate passes, GitHub issues for Printing Press defects only.

**Next consumer:** A maintainer or agent who will change the Printing Press (generator, scorer, skills, or binary) — not the printed CLI that just shipped.

**Done:** The manuscript proof exists and is scrubbed; every work unit is file-new, comment-on-existing, or local-only; no unredacted secret or PII remains; the user has the outcome list.

**Intent:** "Raised the floor" is analysis language, not a filing bar. File only when the Printing Press must change to stop a current, reproducible, generalizing P1 or P2 defect. Manual iteration on one CLI is expected work, not a finding. In user-facing output say "the Printing Press"; name the subsystem when pointing at a fix.

Boundaries

  • **Redact** every real secret and PII before quoting. Issue bodies and retro

docs are public. Use [references/secret-scrubbing.md](references/secret-scrubbing.md) Layer 0. Never quote a leaked value as evidence of the leak.

  • **Don't change the machine** by default. The burden of proof is on the finding.
  • **No P3.** File only P1/P2. Anything else is Skip or Drop, not a low-priority

issue. The issue gate files P1/P2 Do work units only.

  • **Never upload unscrubbed artifacts.** Never modify manuscript or library

source trees; scrub copies only.

Authority

Invocation authorizes reading manuscripts/library and writing the retro proof plus scratch copies. It does not authorize GitHub filing or public upload until the user confirms Submit. It does not authorize edits to the printed CLI or to Printing Press source.

Steps

Read [references/run-resolution.md](references/run-resolution.md) first. It resolves `$API_NAME`, `$RUN_ID`, `$RUN_DIR`, `$CLI_DIR`, and `$IN_REPO`.

**Never execute a phase from memory. When you enter a phase, Read its file from phases/ first.**

| Step | File | |---:|---| | 1 | [phases/01-gather-evidence.md](phases/01-gather-evidence.md) | | 2 | [phases/02-mine-the-session.md](phases/02-mine-the-session.md) | | 3 | [phases/03-triage-candidates.md](phases/03-triage-candidates.md) | | 4 | [phases/04-classify-findings.md](phases/04-classify-findings.md) | | 5 | [phases/05-prioritize.md](phases/05-prioritize.md) | | 6 | [phases/06-write-the-retro.md](phases/06-write-the-retro.md) | | 7 | [phases/07-plannable-work-units.md](phases/07-plannable-work-units.md) | | 8 | [phases/08-issue-gate.md](phases/08-issue-gate.md) | | 9 | [phases/09-package-upload-present.md](phases/09-package-upload-present.md) |

Follow each file's final `Next:` pointer. Late procedure lives in the phase file or a role-named reference it loads ([references/artifact-packaging.md](references/artifact-packaging.md), [references/issue-template.md](references/issue-template.md), [references/secret-scrubbing.md](references/secret-scrubbing.md)). Do not restate those files here.

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