| name | polylith-brick-removal |
| description | Safely remove a Polylith brick (component or base) from the workspace. Use when the user wants to delete, remove, or tear down a component or base. |
Brick Removal Skill
💡 Terminology: this skill uses Polylith terms like brick, component, base, and development project. If they're unfamiliar, load polylith-concepts first.
There is no poly remove CLI command. Removing a brick is a manual process.
Steps to remove a brick
- Delete the source code:
Delete the brick's directory under
components/<namespace>/<name> or bases/<namespace>/<name>.
- Delete the tests:
Delete the brick's test directory under
test/components/<namespace>/<name> or test/bases/<namespace>/<name>.
- Remove from projects:
Search across all
projects/*/pyproject.toml files and remove the brick from the [tool.polylith.bricks] section.
- Remove from the development project:
Remove the brick from the
[tool.polylith.bricks] section in the root pyproject.toml (the development project).
- Sync and Check:
Run
poly sync (load polylith-sync) and poly check (load polylith-check) to ensure the workspace is valid and no other bricks were importing the deleted brick.
Notes for the agent
- Always use your directory and file tools to verify the paths before deleting.
- If
poly check fails after removal, it means another brick was depending on the removed brick. You must fix the importing brick.