Archive DeepSeek Harness Agent Notes

Reduce the active decision corpus without erasing history that can still guide work. Judge every note semantically; word count and age are discovery aids, never archive criteria.

Read the contracts

Read the Agent Note rules, the archive instructions, and the applicable active lifecycle instructions before classifying. Use current code, configuration, package docs, generated catalogs, newer Agent Notes, and inbound links to establish whether a rationale still owns or constrains anything.

Check supersession when adding a note

Every new Agent Note triggers a scoped audit of active notes covering the same decision, mechanism, or rejected alternative. Classify each full or partial supersession while writing the new note: archive qualifying implemented triplets in the same PR, retain and cross-link partial supersessions or independently useful rationale, reject obsolete proposals, and delete rejected notes that no longer prevent a plausible mistake. Apply the Agent Note consolidation rule when the new owner absorbs every unique proposition; do not defer a known match to a later corpus audit.

Classify by future value

Apply these lifecycle-specific outcomes: