project-retrospective SKILL.md skillA
project-retrospective from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/project-retrospective@git:20260818.3e0e3a8Pins git:20260818.3e0e3a8 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jamditis/claude-skills-journalism
- Path
project-templates-toolkit/skills/project-retrospective/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260818.3e0e3a8, committed Aug 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 10, 2026
- Size
- 11,164 bytes
- Repository stars
- 450
- License
- MIT
Generates LESSONS.md files capturing institutional knowledge and failures. Use when closing out projects or investigations.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Project retrospective writer Create LESSONS.md files that capture institutional knowledge, especially failures. Think like a journalist writing about your own project, be specific, be honest, name the actual mistakes. ## Frame the retrospective: blame-aware, not pure-blameless The 2024–2026 consensus in incident-analysis writing (PagerDuty, J. Paul Reed, Lorin Hochstein) is that pure blamelessness is neurobiologically unrealistic, humans default to blame. Healthier framing: acknowledge the blame bias exists and counter it deliberately. Source: https://postmortems.pagerduty.com/culture/blameless/ Cognitive biases to counter explicitly: - **Fundamental attribution error**, blaming individuals for failures the system permitted - **Confirmation bias**, looking for evidence that confirms a pre-formed narrative - **Hindsight bias**, judging past decisions by knowledge that wasn't available at the time - **Negativity bias**, over-weighting what went wrong vs. what worked The voice rule isn't "no blame", it's "name the system that permitted the human action, not just the action." ## Drop the single-root-cause framing …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/project-retrospective@sha256:3ca035b9376ffe23The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260818.3e0e3a8, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_tnsgcclmbsfrckxk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 10, 2026 and Aug 18, 2026, about one every 100 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260818.3e0e3a8 latest | 2026-08-18 | 3e0e3a8 | 11,164 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260510.ad84b8b | 2026-05-10 | ad84b8b | 11,378 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (11164 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jamditis/claude-skills-journalism · 450 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tnsgcclmbsfrckxk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/project-retrospective GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ca035b9376ffe23dd75827d44fa22d0de59157338076556605ae48e65e1d417
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