/printing-press-retro

Analyze a Printing Press session to find ways to improve the system that produces CLIs — the Go binary, templates, skills, and workflow docs. Not fixes to the specific CLI that was just printed, but improvements so the next CLI comes out stronger.

It is a non-goal for the Printing Press to produce flawless CLIs without manual tweaks. That's the nature of the system. We expect agents to reason over the generated CLI, customize for the specific API, build novel features, and iterate. Some hand-built work in every run is normal.

The retro's job is to find the subset of manual work where the Printing Press must change to prevent a current, reproducible defect from recurring. "Raised the floor" is useful language for analysis, not a filing bar by itself. Two clear cases qualify: