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name: archive-kb
description: "This skill should be used when archiving completed knowledge-base artifacts (brainstorms, plans, specs) to their archive/ subdirectories with timestamp prefixes and git history preservation."
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# Archive Knowledge-Base Artifacts

Archive brainstorms, plans, and spec directories for a completed feature branch.
The script generates timestamps internally and uses `git mv` to preserve history.

> **Superseded in part (ADR-174, #7399).** Archival's only real benefit was removing
> rows from `knowledge-base/INDEX.md`, and that is now done at index-generation time:
> inside a spec directory only `spec.md` and `tasks.md` are indexed. Do **not** build a
> gate that forces archival before merge — a spec directory is live working state until
> `ship` Phase 6 reads `decision-challenges.md` from it (ADR-084 §5), and one such gate
> has already been built and reverted for that reason.
>
> Retiring its spec/plan discovery paths is tracked by **#7400**. Discovery is now
> two axes: the slug match (below) UNIONED with the branch diff — files added or
> modified on the branch under `knowledge-base/project/{plans,brainstorms,specs}`
> are this feature's artifacts by commit provenance, so a topic-named plan
> (`2026-10-08-...-plan.md` never matches the slug glob) and a non-`feat-*` spec
> dir are both found. The partial-run WARNING stays: it fires when exactly one
> class is found and the other is silent.
>
> **ship integration:** `ship` Phase 6 step 5.5 invokes this script after its last
> live-artifact reads (decision-challenges render, `## Operator Holds`) and the
> `git mv` rides the feature PR — archival is part of ship, not a follow-up.

## Usage

Run the archive script from the repository root. It derives the feature slug
from the current branch name automatically:

    bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/archive-kb/scripts/archive-kb.sh"

To preview what would be archived without making changes:

    bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/archive-kb/scripts/archive-kb.sh" --dry-run

To archive a specific slug (override branch detection):

    bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/archive-kb/scripts/archive-kb.sh" my-feature-slug

## What It Archives

The script discovers artifacts matching the feature slug:

| Directory | Match Pattern | Type |
|-----------|--------------|------|
| `knowledge-base/project/brainstorms/` | Filename contains slug | File glob |
| `knowledge-base/project/plans/` | Filename contains slug | File glob |
| `knowledge-base/project/specs/feat-<slug>/` | Exact directory name | Directory match |

All `archive/` subdirectories are excluded from discovery.

## When to Use

- During the compound skill's archival step (Step E in compound-capture)
- After completing a feature when brainstorm/plan artifacts should be archived
- During the ship workflow to archive feature artifacts before merge

## Notes

**No `secret-scan-allow-rename` label is required for archival.** The destinations here (`knowledge-base/project/{plans,specs}/archive/`) match the gitleaks path allowlist — but so do the sources, so the `git mv` creates no new unscanned surface. `rename-guard` exempts allowlist -> allowlist renames per rename pair; see [secret-scanning.md](../../../../knowledge-base/engineering/operations/secret-scanning.md).

- The script calls `git add` before `git mv` to handle untracked files
- A single timestamp is generated per invocation for consistency
- Exit code 0 for success (including "no artifacts found")
- Exit code 1 for errors (not in git repo, invalid arguments)
- Spec directories are moved as a whole via `git mv` on the directory