document-retention-map
Decide what documents to keep, for how long, and where — the personal/small-biz retention map by category (tax, legal, medical, warranties, employment), jurisdiction-flagged periods, and the destruction discipline for what's past its date. Use when asked how long do I keep tax documents, can I shred this, set up a document retention system, or what papers does my small business need to keep. Produces the category map with keep-periods (flagged verify-locally), the keep-forever list, the digitize rules, and the annual purge ritual.
Profile →npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill document-retention-map --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Document Retention Map Skill Households and small businesses keep documents by anxiety — everything, forever, in boxes — or by accident — nothing, discovered at audit time. Retention is actually a small map: a dozen categories, each with a keep-period driven by *who could ask for it and for how long* (tax authorities, courts, insurers, warranty desks), a short keep-forever list, and a destruction discipline for everything past its date — because keeping expired documents isn't safety, it's liability plus clutter. Periods are jurisdiction-specific; the map states category logic and flags every number verify-locally. ## What This Skill Produces - **The retention map** — categories × keep-periods × storage location, jurisdiction-flagged throughout - **The keep-forever list** — the short set where the answer never expires - **The digitize rules** — what a scan fully replaces, what needs the paper original, and the scan-filing route - **The purge ritual** — the annual pass that destroys (shreds, not bins) what's aged out ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The scope** — personal household, freelancer, or small business (business adds employment, corporate, and custom
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Map Rules
- Output Format
- The Map
- Keep Forever
- Digitize Rules
- The Annual Hour
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the document-retention-map skill do?
Decide what documents to keep, for how long, and where — the personal/small-biz retention map by category (tax, legal, medical, warranties, employment), jurisdiction-flagged periods, and the destruction discipline for what's past its date. Use when asked how long do I keep tax documents, can I shred this, set up a document retention system, or what papers does my small business need to keep. Produces the category map with keep-periods (flagged verify-locally), the keep-forever list, the digitize rules, and the annual purge ritual.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill document-retention-map --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.