kai-retro SKILL.md skillA
kai-retro from cgallic/kai-cmo-harness is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cgallic/kai-cmo-harness/kai-retro@git:20261029.8fa493ePins git:20261029.8fa493e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cgallic/kai-cmo-harness
- Path
harness/skills/kai-retro/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261029.8fa493e, committed Oct 29, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 9, 2026
- Size
- 5,323 bytes
- Repository stars
- 64
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Run a learning retrospective on the Kai harness. Mines gate-failure logs and 30-day performance results into lessons, triages candidate lessons (promote/keep/retire), and graduates repeated lessons into enforced gate checks with golden corpus cases. Use when "retro", "what have we learned", "triage lessons", "promote lessons", "why does this keep failing", "harness retrospective", or monthly / after any heavy content sprint.
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
> **Kai root note:** `knowledge/`, `harness/`, and `scripts/` paths in this skill live in the Kai install, not the user's project. Resolve them against the first ancestor directory of this SKILL.md that contains a `knowledge/` folder (the Kai plugin root, `~/.claude/kai`, or the kai-cmo-harness repo). `MARKETING.md`, `memory/`, and any output files live in the current project. If a referenced `scripts/` command is not available in this install, say so, skip it, and continue with the file-based guidance — never fabricate its output. Run the Kai learning retrospective. This is how the harness gets smarter: raw failure logs become lessons, repeated lessons become enforced checks. Read `memory/MEMORY.md` first for the graduation ladder. ## When to run - Monthly, or after any sprint that produced 5+ gated pieces - Whenever the same gate failure shows up twice in one session - When a 30-day performance check grades new underperformers ## Step 1 — Mine the gate logs ```bash python scripts/self_improvement/lesson_capture.py mine ``` …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cgallic/kai-cmo-harness/kai-retro@sha256:bce9e202556af27fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261029.8fa493e, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jun 9, 2026 and Oct 29, 2026, about one every 47 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261029.8fa493e latest | 2026-10-29 | 8fa493e | 5,323 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260719.f6c24da | 2026-07-19 | f6c24da | 4,655 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.e833168 | 2026-07-05 | e833168 | 4,114 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260609.2dad7fb | 2026-06-09 | 2dad7fb | 3,934 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 (5323 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
cgallic/kai-cmo-harness · 64 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_up4qd7u6cdxoykwj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cgallic/kai-cmo-harness/kai-retro GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bce9e202556af27f08b25ff3c9d70a444de820ad420cf9ffc0f799815468b028
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