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Every agent is created, deployed, maintained, and eventually retired.
Define clear criteria for when an agent should be retired rather than maintained. Without explicit retirement criteria set in advance, you will hold onto agents long past the point where they serve you — because the sunk cost of building them, the identity you attached to them, and the absence of a forcing function all conspire to keep dead agents on life support.
Retire agents gracefully — document what they did, why they're being retired, and what replaces them.