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SKILL.md step 1 read "Mechanical pre-pass — scripts/detect-mechanical.py". Run from that line alone, the script errors on the missing --transcript-file, and the obvious way to supply it — ls -t ~/.claude/projects/<slug>/*.jsonl | head -1 — is exactly the shortcut references/workflow.md exists to prevent:

Search by content, not by mtime. Several sessions share one project slug, so the newest JSONL is frequently somebody else's […] ls -t … | head -1 loses that race silently and every downstream finding is then attributed to the wrong session.

Both failures happened in one run of the pipeline: the bare invocation errored, and the recovery used mtime. Fourteen transcripts sat under that slug the same day. Checking afterwards with a token search showed the mtime pick had happened to be the right file — which makes it luck, not method, and an entire retrospective rested on it.

What changed

Step 1 now states the required flag and the by-content rule, and points at the reference carrying the full invocation. Four lines, in the place the pipeline is actually read from. The index stays an index: the reasoning — why the token decides, why pwd must not derive the candidate list — stays in workflow.md.

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  • 5 test files pass
  • validate-skill.sh: 0 errors, 19 warnings — identical to main
  • SKILL.md body is 80 lines against the validator's 500-line limit

Assisted by claude-code:claude-opus-5 — Session

`SKILL.md` step 1 read "Mechanical pre-pass — `scripts/detect-mechanical.py`".
Run from that line alone, the script errors on the missing `--transcript-file`,
and the obvious way to supply it — `ls -t …/*.jsonl | head -1` — is the exact
shortcut `references/workflow.md` warns about: several sessions share one
project slug, so the newest transcript is regularly somebody else's, and every
downstream finding is then attributed to the wrong session.

Both happened in one run. Fourteen transcripts sat under the slug that day; a
token search afterwards showed the mtime pick had been the right file, which is
luck, not method — an entire retrospective rested on it.

The step now states the required flag and the by-content rule, and points at the
reference that carries the full invocation. The index stays an index; what
belongs in three lines is here, the reasoning stays in `workflow.md`.

Local: 5 test files pass, validate-skill.sh 0 errors and 19 warnings, unchanged
from main. SKILL.md body is 80 lines of the 500 the validator allows.

Assisted-by: claude-code:claude-opus-5
Agent-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Mf63edGvCVRQz6mwF8gxcC
Agent-Host: 32116e
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Mendel <info@sebastianmendel.de>
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Walkthrough

The retro pipeline documentation now requires --transcript-file during the mechanical pre-pass. Transcript lookup now uses a session token from the session content instead of selecting the newest JSONL file by modification time. Promote mode continues to use the memory inventory scanner.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to cee4b

The PR clarifies how to invoke the workflow and does not affect runtime behavior. The only noted issue is that the reference is not clickable, which affects navigation but not execution or product behavior. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains, so it is merge-ready after normal checks and review.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the documentation change and the step 1 invocation contract.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the required --transcript-file flag, content-based transcript selection, the workflow reference, and verification results.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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In `@skills/retro/SKILL.md`:
- Line 49: Update the workflow reference near “Invocation” in SKILL.md from
inline code formatting to a relative Markdown link targeting the referenced
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Self-review: cee4b7e

The review this pull request demands is unsatisfiable (Copilot quota wall or repeated bot failures on this head). Per the documented fallback, the diff on this head was reviewed by the PR author; this comment is the on-the-record attestation the merge gate reads back. It stops matching on the next push.

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