personal-retro

personal-retro

A lightweight retrospective for solo project work. Designed to surface what is worth protecting and what is quietly draining you — without turning reflection into a performance metric.

When to use

Run at the end of a work period: a day, a week, a natural pause. Takes five to fifteen minutes. Honest answers are more useful than tidy ones.

IP boundary

If you are running this skill from a work repo, stop and switch to your personal project repo first.

Prompt

Reflect on the recent work period and answer these four questions:

1. What worked? What did you enjoy, what flowed easily, what produced something you feel good about? Name specifics if you can.

2. What drained your energy? What felt heavy, repetitive, or misaligned with why you started this project? Be honest — no one else is reading this.

3. What would you drop if you could? If one task, habit, or area of the project disappeared tomorrow, what would feel like relief rather than loss?

4. What do you want to protect? What is working well enough that you do not want it optimised, automated, or handed off? What still belongs to you?

Output

Write your answers to retros/{YYYY-MM-DD}.md relative to the current working directory, where {YYYY-MM-DD} is today's date.

File location: written relative to the current working directory. Add retros/ to your .gitignore if you do not want it committed.

The file should contain the date, your four answers, and any brief notes you want to remember. No formatting requirements — write in whatever form feels natural.