How do I practice legacy agents?

The most direct way to practice legacy agents is through a focused exercise: Open your phone, your browser bookmarks, your note-taking system, and your calendar. For each, list every recurring process, saved workflow, or habitual routine that you engage with at least weekly. Next to each one, write its original purpose and whether it still serves that purpose today. Mark anything where the honest answer is 'I don't know why I still do this' or 'it used to help but doesn't anymore.' You have just completed a legacy agent audit. Count them. Most people find between three and seven.

Common pitfall: Performing the audit intellectually but refusing to act on the results. You identify five legacy agents, nod at the list, and change nothing — because each one feels too small to matter, or because you convince yourself that someday you'll need it. The accumulation is the problem. Five agents that each waste ten minutes a week cost you over forty hours a year. The failure mode is treating the audit as the endpoint rather than the input to a retirement decision.

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