How do I practice agent succession planning?

The most direct way to practice agent succession planning is through a focused exercise: Identify one agent (habit, routine, system, or practice) that you've retired or abandoned in the last year. Write down: (1) what responsibilities it carried, (2) which of those responsibilities are now handled by something else, (3) which are handled by nothing. For each orphaned responsibility, decide: does it need a successor, or should it be explicitly dropped? Document your decision. This is a succession audit.

Common pitfall: Retiring an agent without a succession plan and assuming nothing will break. The responsibilities don't disappear — they become invisible gaps. You notice the damage weeks later when a commitment falls through, a habit decays, or a system you relied on quietly stops producing results. The failure isn't the retirement. It's the absence of transfer.

This practice connects to Phase 30 (Agent Lifecycle) — building it as a repeatable habit compounds over time.