"Keep everything forever" is a liability, not a strategy — it grows breach exposure, violates data- minimisation rules (GDPR, CCPA), and turns every data subject request into an archaeology project. This skill builds a retention schedule that ties each data category to how long you keep it and why (legal basis), with a concrete deletion trigger — so retention is a defensible policy, not an accident.
Data Retention Policy is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the retention-loyalty sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/data-retention-policy/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked to create a data retention policy, set retention periods, plan data deletion/minimisation, or answer 'how long can we keep this data?'. Produces a retention schedule — data categories with their retention period, legal/business basis, deletion trigger and method, plus flags for data kept with no basis or no defined period.
The Data Retention Policy Claude Code skill is built for growth marketers, product-led growth teams, founders running experiments, and performance marketing teams. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 146,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/data-retention-policy curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/data-retention-policy/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/data-retention-policy/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/data-retention-policy/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/data-retention-policy/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\data-retention-policy\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/data-retention-policy/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Data Retention Policy is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Growth & Marketing category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{data-retention-policy-2026,
author = {mohitagw15856},
title = {Data Retention Policy [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/data-retention-policy/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-06 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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