Control Postrun Retro

Control Postrun Retro

Overview

Use this skill immediately after an experiment batch finishes. It converts raw artifacts into a structured "what happened / why / what next" decision and gates whether a recursive next run is justified. It does not own the durable experiment-experience registry; consume that through eda-experiment-phenomenology-analyst.

Inputs

Minimum required:

1. run summary markdown (*.summary.md)
2. monitor/history (*.monitor.md, *.monitor.history.tsv) or manifest (*.tsv)
3. key report sources (postCTS/postRoute summary, DRV/type/length distributions, gate outputs)

Optional but preferred:

1. knowledge-base references used for this batch
2. web/primary-source references for unstable assumptions
3. structured evidence-lift artifacts from eda-experiment-phenomenology-analyst:

• *.results.tsv/json
• *.conclusion.md
• *.experience_delta.md

Workflow

1. Consolidate observations

• prefer the structured result layer when available; only re-open raw logs to resolve contradictions.
• extract the smallest set of outcome metrics:
• timing (WNS/TNS/ViolPaths)
• PPA (power/area/runtime)
• geometry/routing (backside usage, type/length distribution, long-net capture)
• gate status (H1/H2/H3 or equivalent)

1. Diagnose mechanism, not symptoms

• assign one primary mechanism and optional secondary mechanisms:
• model_mismatch
• flow_policy_mismatch
• resource_capacity_conflict
• tool_stability_issue
• insufficient_evidence

1. Score improvement proposals

• for each candidate change, score:
• confidence (low/medium/high)
• impact (low/medium/high)
• cost (low/medium/high)
• risk (low/medium/high)

1. Decide recursion

• trigger recursive workflow-scoped-execution only when:
• confidence >= medium
• expected impact >= medium
• risk is acceptable
• evidence gap is not blocking
• otherwise, request focused data collection first.

1. Emit retrospective artifact

• write one markdown summary under slurm_logs/04_delay_modeling/:
• .retro.md
• include:
• hypothesis validation state
• chosen next step
• explicit stop condition for the next iteration
• which new or reinforced experience items were relied on

References

Load as needed:

1. references/retro-checklist.md
2. references/recursive-loop-policy.md

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Mr-Fang-VLSI
• Source: Mr-Fang-VLSI/EDAgent
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.