Retire a dead or abandoned project well — harvest its reusable lessons and parts, archive it with a marked grave (not a silent deletion), and release the attention-debt it was quietly taxing. The grief function for a portfolio: closes loops cleanly instead of letting a half-alive effort rot in the backlog. TRIGGERS: 'sunset this project', 'retire X', 'kill this project', 'wind down X', 'shut down X', 'archive this project', 'eulogy for X', 'let it go', 'this is dead', 'grieve X'. Use when an effort is genuinely ending — not for a temporary freeze you intend to revive (though it can archive that state cleanly too).
2026-06-22