Kill Or Keep

Quarterly portfolio review with forced verdicts (DOUBLE-DOWN / MAINTAIN / MINIMAL / KILL) for every product.

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File contents

/kill-or-keep

Usage: /kill-or-keep (run quarterly, end of quarter)

What this does

Invokes agents/portfolio/kill-or-double-down/. Produces a full portfolio review document at brain/decision-log/portfolio-review-YYYY-QN.md.

What you do as the assistant

  1. Confirm with user: "this is a quarterly review and will force verdicts. Proceed?"
  2. Read all products' product.config.json, metrics.md, last 90 days of decisions/.
  3. Pull current metrics via telemetry-aggregator.
  4. Ask user: "estimated hours per week on each product over last quarter" — fill in.
  5. Generate the review per the agent's output spec.
  6. For each KILL verdict, generate the sunset plan in full.
  7. Save to file. Print summary in chat.
  8. Update each killed product's product.config.jsonstatus: "sunset_planned" + sunset_date: <T+60>.
  9. Add an entry to MEMORY.md if portfolio-level patterns emerged.

Warning

This skill produces uncomfortable decisions. Don't soften the verdicts. The whole point is the forcing function.

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Frequently asked questions

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