printing-press-retro

SKILL.md

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Analyze a Printing Press session to find ways to improve the system that produces
CLIs — the Go binary, templates, skills, and catalog. Not fixes to the specific CLI
that was just printed, but improvements so the next CLI comes out stronger.

It is a non-goal for the Printing Press to produce flawless CLIs without manual
tweaks. That's the nature of the system. We expect agents to reason over the
generated CLI, customize for the specific API, build novel features, and iterate.
Some hand-built work in every run is normal.

The retro's job is to find the subset of manual work where the machine could
have realistically raised the floor — given the agent a better starting point,
prevented the issue entirely, or eliminated friction that would recur on the
next CLI. Two clear cases qualify: