retire

retire is a command for coding agents from mdsakalu/agent-plugins. It costs 16 tokens per session (577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for retiring a workspace while preserving its notes. Retiring marks the workspace as no longer active and removes its tracked workspace entry.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to confirm and retire a selected workspace, update its retirement date, forget the JJ workspace, and keep its notes.
Why use it?
It gives you a defined way to close a workspace without losing its documentation or references.

Command

Part of the workspace plugin — 13 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mdsakalu/agent-plugins/retire
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mdsakalu/agent-plugins

Or install workspace, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 577 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00016 $0.00577
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured 3d ago against content hash 38ec0a841702, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

retire scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

workspace/commands/retire.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Retire a workspace (mark as retired, forget JJ workspace, preserve notes).

Resolve the metarepo path by reading ~/.claude/workspace-config.json and expanding ~ to $HOME.

The user's request: $ARGUMENTS

Steps

  1. Read ~/.claude/workspace-config.json to get the metarepo path. Expand ~ to $HOME.
  2. Determine which workspace to retire:
    • If <repo>/<workspace> specified, use it
    • If just <workspace>, search across repos
    • If no argument, infer from cwd
    • If unable to determine, list workspaces and ask
  3. Read <metarepo>/notes/<repo>/<workspace>/workspace.json to get current state.
  4. Confirm with the user before proceeding. Show:
    • Workspace name, repo, type, purpose
    • What will happen: retired date set in workspace.json, JJ workspace forgotten
    • Notes preserved at <metarepo>/notes/<repo>/<workspace>/
    • Ask explicitly: "Proceed with retiring <repo>/<workspace>?"
  5. After confirmation: a. Update workspace.json — set "retired": "<today's date>" using jq:
    jq --arg date "$(date +%Y-%m-%d)" '.retired = $date' workspace.json > tmp && mv tmp workspace.json
    
    b. Forget the JJ workspace from the trunk:
    cd <metarepo>/repos/<repo>/trunk && jj workspace forget <workspace-name>
    
    c. Ask the user if they also want to delete the workspace directory:
    • If yes: remove <metarepo>/repos/<repo>/<workspace>/
    • If no: leave it (stale but harmless)
    • Either way, notes survive at <metarepo>/notes/<repo>/<workspace>/
  6. Report what was done.

Important

  • Always resolve metarepo from ~/.claude/workspace-config.json, never hardcode paths.
  • ALWAYS confirm with the user before making changes.
  • Never delete the notes directory — notes survive retirement.
  • The trunk workspace should NEVER be retired. Refuse if the user tries.
  • Handle cases where the workspace directory is already gone.
  • workspace.json is the source of truth, located at notes/<repo>/<workspace>/workspace.json.

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 49 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 38ec0a841702

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retire is a command published in the GitHub repository mdsakalu/agent-plugins (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 577 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.