Researchers Wrote a Paper Assessing Matt Pocock's /retro Skill for Coding Agents
mattpocockuk · x · 2026-11-03
Matt Pocock shares that researchers wrote a paper evaluating the effectiveness of his /retro skill for coding agents, calling it "maybe the greatest issue report in history." He follow-ups with the paper's key point: harness self-evolution requires not just generating changes, but mechanisms to verify whether changes help on later tasks and revise or remove those that don't — i.e., you need to retro your retro.
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