codyswanngt/lisa-tear-down-automations

Tear down Lisa automations: $ARGUMENTS

This skill is a specification, not a script. It tells the current runtime which recurring Lisa automations to remove — the ones /setup-automations created for THIS project — and the runtime removes them with its native scheduling mechanism. With no loop argument it removes the whole project fleet. With a loop id argument (for example monitor or learnings-audit) it removes only that one registered loop.

Runtime scheduler (branch on the current runtime)

• Codex → list Codex automations and delete the lisa-auto-<project>-* set via the native automations mechanism (prefer the native delete over hand-removing ~/.codex/automations/<id>/, which is only the backing store).
• Claude → use /schedule to list and remove the matching recurring routines.
• Other runtimes → use the runtime's native recurring-task mechanism. If it has none, state that and stop.

Scope (remove only what setup created)

• By default, remove every automation /setup-automations registered for the current project — the whole set found under the stable lisa-auto-<project>- name prefix, whatever it currently contains. Membership is registration, not a roster (automation-runbook-contract): sweep the prefix and remove what is there. Do not work from a fixed list of loop names — a list drifts the moment a loop is added, which is exactly how the opt-in gardener came to be orphaned.
• When $ARGUMENTS names a loop id from a policy-obsolete teardown proposal, remove only that loop's registration under the same prefix, e.g. lisa-auto-<project>-monitor. Report every other project automation left in place. If the named loop is absent, that single-loop teardown is a clean no-op; do not widen it into a fleet teardown.
• This explicitly includes the opt-in learnings-audit gardener when it is registered: /setup-automations learnings-audit=true registers it under the same prefix, so teardown removes it with the rest. A conditionally-skipped loop (e.g. exploratory-bugs on a stack without exploratory-qa) simply is not in the sweep.
• Never remove automations for a different project, or any non-Lisa automation (e.g. unrelated crawlers/ingestors). Match strictly on the lisa-auto-<project>- prefix for THIS project; when in doubt about an automation's ownership, leave it and report it rather than deleting it.
• Idempotent — an automation that is already absent is a no-op, not an error. Re-running when the prefix sweep finds nothing is a clean, successful no-op.
• Leave the runbooks alone. The checked-in .lisa/automations/<loop-id>.runbook.md files that /setup-automations scaffolded are project knowledge and the historical record of what these loops did. Teardown removes scheduler registrations only; it never deletes, edits, or moves a runbook file. An operator who wants them gone removes them deliberately, in git.

Answering a policy-obsolete teardown proposal

Running this skill with the proposing loop id is the approve answer to a loop's own retirement proposal. When a registered loop's runbook Retirement condition trips, that loop records the policy-obsolete run outcome and files exactly one ticket recommending its own teardown (automation-runbook-contract) — and then keeps running at its normal cadence, because a loop never removes its own registration. Teardown is always human-invoked: it is never triggered by a loop, on any schedule, for any outcome. The operator has three answers, and only the first brings you here. The proposal authorizes only that loop's registration unless the human explicitly asks for fleet teardown.

1. Approve — run this skill with the proposal's loop id, e.g. /lisa:tear-down-automations monitor. When it has run, close the proposal as Completed: the loop-scoped teardown it asked for actually happened, and Completed is the close reason that says so.
2. Decline — close the proposal as Not planned (that close reason is what stops the loop re-raising it; Completed would leave a later re-file open). The loop simply continues at its normal cadence, and nothing is removed.
3. Re-cadence — you pick the longer cadence and re-register the loop with /lisa:setup-automations; the loop never adjusts its own schedule. The proposal's evidence carries the loop's current cadence as the baseline to choose against, plus a one-line summary of its recent runs. Then close the proposal as Completed — the schedule change is the action it asked for.

Report

List each automation removed by name. For "already absent", compare against the one source of truth — the fleet scripts/automation-status-expected-fleet.mjs (resolveExpectedAutomationFleet) resolves for this project — and name anything it expects that the sweep did not find; that is a no-op, not an error. Do not invent an expected set of your own.

Then state, in the operator's words, that the runbook files under .lisa/automations/ were left on disk and why: they are the written record of what those jobs did, kept on purpose, and if you do not want them you delete them yourself in git. Finally, confirm that nothing outside this project's lisa-auto-<project>- prefix was touched. Write it so a non-technical operator can confirm what happened without reading code.