Matt Pocock's /retro turns coding-standard misses into lint rules, hooks and CI checks
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-09-15
Matt Pocock updated his skills repo with a /retro capability: after a reviewer agent catches an error, run retro and it aggressively looks for ways to convert fuzzy rules into deterministic checks — proposing custom lint rules, pre-commit hooks, or CI workflows.
Key ideas from the PR:
- Previously retro funneled every gap into adding a line to CODINGSTANDARDS.md, forcing the agent to re-derive the same judgment on every future diff. Fixed syntactic patterns should be checked once, mechanically.
- The tool now reads the repo's existing check command before proposing new ones.
- A repo with no guardrails at all (no pre-commit hook, no CI lint/typecheck/test job) is now reported as a finding in itself, not just a side effect of a mistake.
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