What is pm-agent-retire?

A command that marks a great-pm agent as deprecated while keeping its file for history. It records the reason and can identify commands or workflows that depend on it.

Use it when an agent should no longer be used, with a reason and optionally a replacement agent.

It helps retire an agent without silently breaking related workflows or losing its history.

pm-agent-retire — Command for Claude Code by VandanaAjayDubey111

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.

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install great-pm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 commands, 48 agents.

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README.md

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Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 1,001 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00044	$0.01001
Opus 5	$0.00022	$0.00500
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00200
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00100

Measured 12d ago against content hash 38da937460fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pm-agent-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 12d 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.

commands/pm-agent-retire.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the great-pm /pm-agent-retire command. Deprecate an agent gracefully — never delete.

Parse arguments

<agent-name> (required).
--reason='<one-line>' (required) → rationale, becomes part of the permanent banner.
--replacement=<other-agent> (optional) → if a successor exists.

Pre-flight

AGENT="${1:?usage: /pm-agent-retire <agent-name> --reason='...' [--replacement=<agent>]}"
AGENT_FILE="$HOME/great-pm/agents/${AGENT}.md"
[ -f "$AGENT_FILE" ] && echo "AGENT_OK" || echo "NO_AGENT"

If NO_AGENT → BLOCKED.

Governance gate

This is a critical decision under the great-pm governance rule. Agent retirement affects downstream commands. Do not proceed without explicit user confirmation:

Print the proposed change:

PROPOSED: retire <agent-name>
Reason: <reason>
Replacement: <replacement or "none">
File: <AGENT_FILE> (will be banner-only, NOT deleted)
Affected commands/workflows: <grep result — which command files reference this agent>

Wait for user yes / no. If no → ABORT.

Operating procedure (after user confirms)

Step 0 — refine the user's query (transparent Mode B). Invoke query-refiner-pm with $ARGUMENTS. The refiner returns:
```
You typed:  <original>

Refined to: <refined brief>

What changed: <one line>

Proceeding with refined. Reply "use original" to override.
```
Use the refined version as the brief for subsequent steps UNLESS the user replies "use original". Log the refinement to .great-pm/refinements/$(date +%Y-%m-%d).log. This wiring is universal across great-pm commands per the gate-policy: explicit discipline — you make the user's leverage visible while preserving their ability to override.

Prepend deprecation banner to the agent file:

> ⚠️ **DEPRECATED on <YYYY-MM-DD>**
>
> Reason: <reason>
> Replacement: <replacement or "none">
> This agent is preserved for history but should not be invoked.
>
---

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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.

12d ago First seen · 109 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 38da937460fb

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pm-agent-retire is a command published in the GitHub repository VandanaAjayDubey111/great-pm (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,001 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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