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Retire a Tool Call Over a Window Instead of Deleting It
Removing a tool call the moment a replacement arrives breaks every run that still uses the old one, and the breakage appears in those runs rather than at the removal. This skill covers deprecation windows for agent tools: mark the old call as deprecated while it still works, warn the callers that still use it, keep the old path alive for a stated period, and remove it only once no live run depends on it.
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$ openclaw command add --name "deprecate" --trigger "/deprecate" --source "AWS Production" --message "Mark a tool call as deprecated while it still works, and name the replacement and the date the old path is removed."
$ openclaw alert-rule add --name "Old Tool Still Used" --group-by "tool" --window "24h" --action "List every run that still calls a deprecated tool so the owners can move before the removal date."
$ openclaw runbook add --name "Tool Retirement" --trigger "/runbook retire-tool" --tags "development,integration" --steps "Mark the tool deprecated. Announce the replacement and the removal date. Watch who still calls it. Move the stragglers. Remove the old path only when the caller list is empty."
$ openclaw auto-fix add --name "Warn Old Caller" --condition "tool.calls.deprecated > 0" --action "Append the replacement to the reply so the caller learns the new path before the old one is removed." --approval "auto" --notify "#ops-info" --cooldown "1h"
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