Weekly Engineering Retrospective

Generates a comprehensive engineering retrospective analyzing commit history, work patterns, and code quality metrics. Team-aware: identifies the user running the command, then analyzes every contributor with per-person praise and growth opportunities.

Arguments

• Default: last 7 days
• 24h: last 24 hours
• 14d: last 14 days
• 30d: last 30 days
• compare: compare current window vs prior same-length window

Instructions

Parse the argument to determine the time window. Default to 7 days. All times should be reported in the user's local timezone.

Midnight-aligned windows: For day units, compute an absolute start date at local midnight. For example, if today is 2026-03-18 and the window is 7 days, the start date is 2026-03-11. Use --since="2026-03-11T00:00:00" for git log queries. For hour units, use --since="N hours ago".

Step 1: Gather Raw Data

First, fetch origin and identify the current user:

git fetch origin main --quiet
git config user.name
git config user.email

The name returned by git config user.name is "you" ... the person reading this retro. All other authors are teammates.

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