decommission-plan

decommission-plan is a skill for Claude Code from rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer. It costs 97 tokens per session (2,513 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plan for safely retiring a system after proving that no remaining users, reports, integrations, or scheduled processes depend on it. It also covers data retention, staged shutdown, and the ability to reverse the decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a migration, when a service appears unused, or when the organization wants to reduce infrastructure, licence, or audit costs.
Why use it?
A system may look unused while serving occasional or legally required workloads. The plan gathers evidence before shutdown and reduces the cost, audit burden, and confusion of keeping obsolete systems running.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the fde-migration plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it after a migration, when a service appears unused, or when the organization wants to reduce infrastructure, licence, or audit costs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer/decommission-plan
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 rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer --skill decommission-plan
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fde-migration, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,513 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 $0.00097 $0.02513
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.01256
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00503
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00251

Measured 9d ago against content hash a8f5d9e83c1f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decommission-plan 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 9d 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.

fde-migration/skills/decommission-plan/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Decommission plan

Proving nothing needs it, then turning it off.

Why this exists

Decommissioning is common, genuinely hard, and almost never planned properly. Systems get left running for years after their replacement ships because nobody was willing to say it was safe to stop them — which is a rational position, since the evidence to say so was never gathered.

The difficulty is entirely in one place: proving there are no remaining consumers. Turning something off takes a minute. Knowing you can is the work, and it's hard because absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. A quarterly report, an annual regulatory extract, or a partner integration used twice a year will not appear in a week of traffic logs.

The second reason this matters: leaving systems running has real costs — licences, infrastructure, patching obligations, audit scope, and the ongoing confusion of two systems where one is authoritative. Nobody attributes those costs to the decommission that didn't happen.

When this applies

  • A system is being retired
  • After a migration leaves the old system idle
  • "Can we switch this off?"
  • A service appears unused
  • Cost or audit-scope reduction

When it doesn't

  • The replacement isn't live and proven yet — finish cutover-plan first
  • Deleting code rather than retiring a running system — that's safe-change plus git-archaeology
  • You're being asked to prove something is unused with no authority to act — that's an assessment

Prerequisites

  • Locate the workspace: FDE_WORKSPACE, else the charter Location, else .fde/, else ../<repo>-fde/
  • .fde/02-system-map.md and .fde/02b-ownership.md
  • .fde/runbooks/cutover-*.md if this follows a migration
  • Access to logs, monitoring, and network data covering at least a full business cycle

Procedure

1. Establish what "off" means

Several distinct states, and conflating them causes most of the confusion:

State Meaning Reversible
Read-only Still serves reads, accepts no writes Trivially
Dark Running, no traffic routed Trivially
Stopped Not running, data intact Minutes to hours
Deprovisioned Infrastructure released, data archived Days, if archived properly
Deleted Data gone Never

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 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. 9d ago First seen · 190 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A a8f5d9e83c1f

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decommission-plan is a skill published in the GitHub repository rpraharaj/forward-deployed-engineer (6 stars, last pushed 22d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 2,513 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.