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version: "1.0.1" name: sweep-stale-seeds description: Identifies substacker seeds older than 30 days with status=seed and no incoming related_seeds links, flags them for writer review, and recommends keep / promote-to-draft / kill based on density score. Does NOT auto-execute any action. Emits a review list to ops/librarian/YYYY-MM-DD-stale-sweep.md. Run at session start after ingest, once per day max. Trigger keywords — stale, sweep, review, old seeds, cleanup, gardener, corpus hygiene.

Sweep Stale Seeds

Workflow
Recommendation rules
Output format
Worked example
Guardrails

Related skills: Called by Librarian agent's pipeline step 2. Output consumed by the writer and by curator on its monthly-ish cycle.

Workflow

Sweep the corpus for stale seeds:
- [ ] Step 1: If ops/librarian/{today}-stale-sweep.md exists, skip (daily idempotency)
- [ ] Step 2: Glob corpus/seeds/*.md
- [ ] Step 3: For each seed, parse frontmatter
- [ ] Step 4: Apply stale criteria: status=seed AND created < today-30d AND no related_seeds referencing this seed
- [ ] Step 5: For each stale seed, compute recommendation
- [ ] Step 6: Write the review list to ops/librarian/{today}-stale-sweep.md

Step 4: Stale criteria

A seed is stale if ALL of:

status: seed (not yet promoted to draft)
created is > 30 days before today
No other seed's related_seeds includes this seed's id (orphan test)
manual_edits: false (writer-edited seeds are never in the sweep)

Recommendation rules

If...	Recommend
`density >= 7`	`promote-to-draft` (high-quality material sitting stale is the real loss)
`density <= 3`	`kill` (low-density AND stale = not going to improve)
else	`keep` (mid-density — more time to mature)

Output format

ops/librarian/YYYY-MM-DD-stale-sweep.md:

yaml

---
agent: librarian
date: YYYY-MM-DD
total_seeds: N
stale_seeds: M
recommendations:
  promote: X
  kill: Y
  keep: Z
---
 
# Stale Seed Sweep — YYYY-MM-DD
 
## Promote to draft (X)
 
- `{seed-id}` | density={N} | created={date} | topics={comma-list}
  - Rationale: high density, sitting stale. Consider promoting.
 
## Kill (Y)
 
- `{seed-id}` | density={N} | created={date} | topics={comma-list}
  - Rationale: low density, stale, orphan. Safe to move to corpus/dead/.
 
## Keep (Z)
 
- `{seed-id}` | density={N} | created={date} | topics={comma-list}
  - Rationale: mid-density, give it more time.

Worked example

Corpus today (2026-04-23) has 47 seeds. Globbing + filtering finds 6 stale:

## Promote to draft (1)
- 2026-02-18-residuals-as-a-reset-button | density=8 | created=2026-02-18 | topics=resnet, training
  - Rationale: high density, sitting stale for 2 months. Consider promoting.
 
## Kill (2)
- 2026-01-04-maybe-writing-about-tokenizers | density=2 | created=2026-01-04 | topics=tokenizer
  - Rationale: low density, stale, orphan. Safe to move to corpus/dead/.
- 2025-12-21-quick-thought-on-sparse-moe | density=3 | created=2025-12-21 | topics=moe
  - Rationale: low density, stale, orphan. Safe to kill.
 
## Keep (3)
- 2026-02-28-rope-intuition | density=5 | created=2026-02-28 | topics=attention-mechanism, rope
- 2026-03-05-grokking | density=5 | created=2026-03-05 | topics=emergence, training
- 2026-03-15-temperature-vs-top-p | density=6 | created=2026-03-15 | topics=sampling
  - Rationale: mid-density; not stale enough to act yet.

Guardrails

Never delete. Only flag. The writer or Curator executes.
Never change status. The status field is owned by the writer / downstream agents.
Never include seeds with manual_edits: true in the kill list regardless of density.
One-time per day: if today's sweep file exists, skip.
A seed linked from another seed's related_seeds is never stale by this skill's criteria, even if old and low-density.
Never recommend kill for a seed with density >= 7; that would contradict the promote recommendation.

Quick reference

Runs once per session (skip if today's file exists).
Output: one markdown report. No file deletions.
Criteria: status=seed + >30 days + orphan + manual_edits=false.

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