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Data Retention Policy Linter

Check retention rules for data classes, environments and deletion jobs.

v0.1.0 · Node.js 22+ · MIT

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Check exported data-class retention policies for owners, durations, legal-hold states, deletion-job references and conflicting environments.

This walkthrough uses the tool's public README and checked-in example files. Run the command from a repository checkout with Node.js 22+.

Run the checked-in example

npm run example                                         # examples/clean,      exit 0
node bin/data-retention-policy-linter.mjs --root examples/broken      # exit 1
node bin/data-retention-policy-linter.mjs --root examples/held        # exit 1
node bin/data-retention-policy-linter.mjs --root examples/incomplete  # exit 2

Read the result

recommendation is one of eligible, blocked, blocked-by-hold or undecided, in reverse order of precedence: a hold outranks everything, an unknown outranks a known problem, and only eligible permits deletion.

Scope

This tool reads four exported documents. Everything it says is a statement about those documents, and the list below is what it deliberately does not do and cannot conclude.