Askit deprecate

Skill product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit/skills/askit-deprecate

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npx -y skills add product-on-purpose/agent-skills-toolkit --skill askit-deprecate

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Validates and records a component's deprecation (status, replacement, and removal target) and keeps deprecated components validating until removal. Use when deprecating a component, recording its replacement, or checking the deprecation contract.

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Purpose

Manage a component's end-of-life cleanly. Two modes: deprecate marks a component status: deprecated and records its replacement (deprecated-by) and the version it will be removed in (remove-in), per Standard sec 3.7 / 7.5; check runs the G6 deprecation check (the contract is complete) and confirms a deprecated component still validates until its remove-in version, so consumers get a migration window rather than a sudden break. Policy and the lifecycle are in references/deprecation-policy.md.

When to use

When deprecating a component, recording its replacement, or checking that deprecated components still validate before their removal version.

deprecate mode

Set the component's status to deprecated in library.json (and the component frontmatter metadata.status).
Record deprecated-by (the replacement component) and remove-in (the target plugin version for removal).
Point users at the replacement in the component's description or body; do not delete it yet.

check mode

Run node scripts/check.mjs (the aggregate gate, which includes the G6 deprecation check): every deprecated component declares deprecated-by + remove-in, and no component carries an invalid status.
Confirm each deprecated component still passes its tier checks until remove-in (a deprecated component must keep validating during the migration window).

Scope

The G6 deprecation check enforces the contract deterministically; this skill is the front door and the policy. Actual removal at the remove-in version is a release-time action driven by askit-release (and recorded in the CHANGELOG). Deprecation is the Gold G6 baseline; a dedicated removal-automation skill is roadmap (the policy and frontmatter handling are what v1 requires).