| name | suggest-discards |
| description | Analyze the workspace inventory and recommend items that are strong candidates for being thrown away or recycled — broken, obsolete, low-value, redundant, or expired. Produces a ranked discard list with reasoning per item, written to analysis/discards.md, and offers to feed it into generate-action-list. |
Suggest discards
When to invoke
The user wants to know what to get rid of, asks "what should I throw out", or wants to start a decluttering pass.
Preconditions
Workspace exists and inventory/master.json has items. Otherwise prompt for setup-workspace / import-inventory.
Heuristics for "throw away" candidacy
Score each item against these signals (higher score = stronger discard candidate):
- Condition
broken → strong candidate. poor → moderate.
- Obsolescence: technology more than ~10 years old with no current use (CRT monitors, mini-DV tapes, dead phones with no resale value), expired consumables, old cosmetics, expired food, expired medicines.
- Low value + low utility:
est_value near zero AND no sentimental tag AND not actively used.
- Redundancy: more units than the household plausibly needs (e.g. 12 phone chargers, 5 frying pans).
- Damaged irreparably: notes mention "missing parts", "doesn't work", "leaks", "torn".
- Hazardous to keep: leaking batteries, mouldy items, anything flagged in notes as a safety issue.
Negative signals — do NOT recommend discarding if
- Tagged
sentimental, heirloom, gift, keepsake.
est_value is high (instead, route to identify-resale-targets).- Likely donatable in good condition (route to
identify-donation-targets).
- User has previously rejected it (track in
analysis/.discard-rejections.json).
Output
Write <workspace>/analysis/discards.md with sections:
- Strong candidates — score ≥ 0.8, with one-line reason each.
- Worth considering — score 0.5–0.8.
- Edge cases — items the agent wasn't sure about, with the question to resolve.
Each entry: - [item name] (id) — reason — location/box.
Also print the strong-candidates list to chat. Offer to:
- Pipe the list into
generate-action-list for a printable CSV/PDF.
- Re-route specific items to
identify-resale-targets or identify-donation-targets.
