scan-new-specs (deprecated)

Retired 2026-08-20. Do not invoke this skill and do not schedule it.

Its scheduled agent (0ITuF9vNJ1RiO00Szlm1fW) is paused and stays paused.

Why it was retired

The skill fired on spec merge, which happens before a feature ships. Two failures followed from that single design choice:

It drafted docs for unreleased and sometimes abandoned work. A merged spec is not a shipped feature. The agent had no evidence of what users had actually received, so pages were written for behavior that had not landed, or had landed differently, or never landed at all.
It treated every spec as a docs task. Nothing asked whether a change warranted documentation. Pure UI changes, small intuitive additions, and behind-the-scenes work all became draft PRs, and the docs repo accumulated unvetted content debt faster than anyone could review it.

The missing_docs skill in warpdotdev/docs, running in drift-watch mode. It differs in the two ways that matter:

Release-triggered. scripts/check_new_release.py gates each run on a new stable release, so the pipeline sees what actually shipped rather than what was planned. A daily schedule does per-release work.
Gated on worthiness. Every candidate is evaluated against .agents/references/docs-worthiness-criteria.md before anything is drafted, with a default of no docs and a requirement to name concrete evidence. Verdicts, including rejections, are recorded in references/changelog_decisions.md so nothing is re-litigated.