What problem does it solve?
This Skill solves the problem of recurring build failures, inefficient pipeline workflows, and repeated delivery mistakes by automating the analysis of post-build telemetry, error patterns, and review feedback. Without structured retrospectives, teams waste time fixing the same issues across multiple build runs and miss opportunities to optimize their delivery pipeline.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Build Telemetry Analysis: Parses round-by-round progress logs to identify the most expensive phases, error patterns, and fix cycles that caused delays or failures.
- Categorized Improvement Identification: Groups findings into preventable issues, process improvements, and knowledge gaps to prioritize high-impact changes.
- Approval-Gated Patch Generation: Creates concrete, specific patches for both universal pipeline updates (applicable to all projects) and project-specific configuration changes, requiring human approval before application to avoid unintended side effects.
- Use Case: After a Ship v2 build with multiple TypeScript compilation failures and reviewer blocks, use this Skill to generate targeted fixes that prevent the same issues from recurring in future builds.
Quick Start
Use the ship-retrospective skill to analyze the progress file at your build log path, project config at your project configuration path, and worktree at your build worktree path to receive a categorized list of pipeline and project improvement patches for your approval.