ai-data-retention

ai-data-retention is a skill for Claude Code from mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (1,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to controlling how long AI training data and its influence on trained models are kept. It covers deleting training data, checking that deletion happened, tracking model versions, and machine unlearning—the process of removing specific data's influence from a model.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define retention policies, verify training-data deletion, track model versions for compliance, choose machine-unlearning methods, and identify when retraining is needed.
Why use it?
Deleting source data does not necessarily remove information learned by a model. This helps address retention and deletion requirements such as the GDPR storage-limitation rule.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-privacy-governance-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define retention policies, verify training-data deletion, track model versions for compliance, choose machine-unlearning methods, and identify when retraining is needed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mukul975/privacy-data-protection-skills/ai-data-retention
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.

Any agent
npx skills add mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills --skill ai-data-retention
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-privacy-governance-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,614 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.01614
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00807
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00323
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00161

Measured 13d ago against content hash 9d943d2a0731, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-data-retention 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/process.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/ai-privacy-governance-skills/skills/ai-data-retention/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AI Model Retention and Unlearning

Overview

GDPR Art. 5(1)(e) storage limitation requires that personal data be kept no longer than necessary for the processing purpose. For AI systems, this creates complex retention challenges: training data used to build a model may no longer be needed once training is complete, but the model itself encodes information about the training data. Machine unlearning — the process of removing the influence of specific data from a trained model — is an emerging field that addresses the gap between deleting training data and eliminating its influence from model parameters. This skill provides retention policies, deletion verification methods, and machine unlearning techniques for AI compliance.

AI Data Retention Categories

Data Category Description Retention Consideration
Raw training data Original personal data used for model training Delete after training unless retraining justifies retention
Processed training data Cleaned, augmented, feature-engineered data Same as raw — delete when training purpose exhausted
Validation/test data Data used for model evaluation Retain for model audit and comparison; pseudonymise
Model weights/parameters Trained model artefacts encoding training data information Retain while model is deployed; delete on decommission
Inference logs Inputs and outputs of model predictions Retention based on purpose (audit, debugging, rights exercise)
Model metadata Training configuration, hyperparameters, provenance Retain for compliance documentation; low privacy risk
Embedding vectors Dense representations derived from personal data May contain personal data — apply retention policy

Retention Policy Framework

Training Data Retention Decision Tree

Training data category identified
│
├─ Is the data still needed for model retraining?
│  ├─ YES → Retain with documented justification and review date
│  └─ NO → Continue
│
├─ Is the data needed for model validation or audit?
│  ├─ YES → Retain in pseudonymised form with access controls
│  └─ NO → Continue
│
├─ Is the data needed for data subject rights exercise?
│  ├─ YES → Retain for rights exercise period, then delete
│  └─ NO → Continue
│
├─ Is there a legal obligation to retain?
│  ├─ YES → Retain per legal requirement
│  └─ NO → DELETE the training data
│
└─ After deletion: assess model for residual data encoding

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 13d ago First seen · 162 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 9d943d2a0731

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ai-data-retention is a skill published in the GitHub repository mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills (272 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 1,614 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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