Friction Retrospective

Friction Retrospective is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Fr-e-d in GAAI-framework.

161 stars27 forkson Fr-e-d/GAAI-frameworkAdded 2026/09/08Repository updated 2026/09/04

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Install Friction Retrospective

Copy Friction Retrospective into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework/tree/main/.gaai/core/skills/cross/friction-retrospective ~/.claude/skills/friction-retrospective

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/digipulse-engineering/GAAI-framework.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .gaai/core/skills/cross/friction-retrospective/SKILL.md in Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/friction-retrospective
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 3670 skills

What Friction Retrospective does

Friction Retrospective scans delivery artefacts for friction log entries, groups recurring patterns, and produces retrospective reports. Use it after delivery to surface candidates for conventions, decisions, or rule updates.

Friction Retrospective is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Friction Retrospective comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai-agents, ai-coding, ai-developer-tools and ai-governance.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Friction Retrospective

Purpose / When to Activate

Activate to aggregate and analyze friction captured during delivery. This skill reads ## Friction Log sections from delivery artefacts and detects patterns that warrant promotion to durable memory (conventions, decisions, rule updates).

Recommended triggers (conventions, not rules):

Per-Epic: when an Epic is marked done
Monthly: alongside memory-refresh
Incident: if a single Story generates 3+ friction events

Constraint: Only the Discovery Agent may invoke this skill. Delivery agents capture friction; Discovery analyzes it.

Process

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Friction Retrospective

What else does Fr-e-d publish alongside Friction Retrospective?
Friction Retrospective is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Abort-Safe Handler, Ambiguity Detector and Approach Evaluation. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Friction Retrospective does, and is maintained by Fr-e-d in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Fr-e-d/GAAI-framework page.
How does Friction Retrospective compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Friction Retrospective ranks #3428 by stars among the 3670 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Friction Retrospective against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.