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retiring-and-inheriting-a-seat skillA

retiring-and-inheriting-a-seat is agent-read markdown (skill) from mvschwarz/openrig: Use when you are a sitting agent near your context threshold (~85%) and a PLANNED seat transition is due — retire deliberately and hand your seat to a fresh successor primed from a packet, rather than let compaction degrade you. Covers the handover packet, the append-only lineage ledger (one row per tenure), physical-seat continuity, the do-not-over-inherit framing, the optional warm-handoff window, and wake-v0 (consulting a retired predecessor). NOT for unplanned compaction/crash recovery (sess.

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# Retiring and Inheriting a Seat

A **planned** seat transition. A long-lived seat accumulates context; as it nears the
window's edge, don't wait for compaction to degrade you into a cold-started agent —
**retire deliberately** and hand the seat to a fresh successor primed from a packet plus
the seat's accumulated lineage. The **seat address is stable; its occupants are a lineage.**
Keep the transition and its authority explicit.

## Use this when

- You are a sitting agent near your context threshold (~85%) with a **planned** transition
  (or a deliberate role change), and want the successor to start clean.
- You are priming a fresh successor into an **existing** seat.
- You are recording a tenure in the seat's lineage ledger / writing your tombstone.
- You are **inheriting** a seat and need the do-not-over-inherit framing.
- You want to consult the agent who sat in this seat before you.

## Don't use this when

- Unplanned compaction or a crash already happened — that is the backstop path:
  `session-compaction-and-restore` / `claude-compaction-restore`.
- You need the seat-binding **primitive mechanics** (rebuild/fork/fresh, the two-outcome
…

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How to install

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13791 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

mvschwarz/openrig · 362 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-25 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7mffi7srb2ae4fvu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mvschwarz/openrig/retiring-and-inheriting-a-seat
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ebe58e4db60ed963fd721a1685c4c2afe1e45d93beddd211518dfb5f0b48bdcc

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