Retrospective Session that Produces Real Improvement
This is a ready-made prompt from the Zayenha Prompt library in Personal & Productivity, written for claude-sonnet-4-7. It has a main prompt to copy into the model, built-in quality guards, and a verification prompt to run in a second window to review the answer. The full text needs the Pro plan; the description is open to all.
Turn the end of a project or week into real learning: what worked, what stalled, the root cause, and specific improvement experiments with an owner and deadline, in a blameless setting.
Your current plan: free
A team closing a sprint seeking tangible improvement; a project manager reviewing a stalled delivery; an individual running a weekly review of personal performance.
Built-in quality guards
No fabricated events or outcomes
Cover wins, stalls, root cause, improvement experiments, and follow-up
Adherence to the retro structure with a complete experiments table
Blameless tone focused on systems, not individuals
Frequently asked questions
How do I use this prompt?
Copy the main prompt and paste it into claude-sonnet-4-7 or the model you use, replace what is in square brackets with your details, then run the verification prompt in a second window with the answer pasted in, and review it before relying on it.
Is this prompt free?
Its full text requires the Pro plan or higher. Free prompts you can copy at once without an account are on the ready-made Arabic prompts page.
Which model was this prompt written for?
It was written for claude-sonnet-4-7 and follows how that model works; you can run it on other models too, reviewing the result, since no single wording guarantees the best result on every model.