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Project Retrospective Writer — Development skill for Claude Code

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Project Retrospective Writer (LESSONS.md).

How to install Project Retrospective Writer

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/jamditis-tools-project-retrospective-writer/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/jamditis-tools-project-retrospective-writer && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jamditis/tools/HEAD/.claude/skills/project-retrospective-writer.md -o ~/.claude/skills/jamditis-tools-project-retrospective-writer/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Project Retrospective Writer does

Project Retrospective Writer (LESSONS.md)

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.

The critical section: "The real problem"

This is the most valuable part of any retrospective. It answers:

"What did we THINK we were building vs. what was ACTUALLY needed?"

**Good example:**

We built a comprehensive tagging system when users just needed fu

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