BMAD-METHOD/.agents/skills/bmad-story-automator/data/report-retention-policy.md

Validation Report Retention Policy

Purpose: keep workflow repo lean while preserving historical validation evidence.

Policy

• Keep latest 10 validation reports in validation-reports/ as .md.
• Archive older reports into validation-reports/archive/ as .md.gz.
• Keep validation-report-*-current.md files unarchived.
• Never delete archived .md.gz files automatically.

Suggested Maintenance Command

Run from workflow root:

mkdir -p validation-reports/archive
ls -1t validation-reports/validation-report-*.md \
  | rg -v -- '-current\.md$' \
  | awk 'NR>10' \
  | while read -r f; do
      gzip -c "$f" > "validation-reports/archive/$(basename "$f").gz" && rm "$f"
    done

Operational Notes

• This policy applies to historical reports only.
• Current run artifacts remain readable markdown.
• Archival is optional during active development, recommended during wrap-up.