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Retire an Application

Retirement is the supported permanent lifecycle. It is asynchronous because Liskov cannot honestly force-stop an Acurast registration it no longer owns: existing jobs retain their chain schedules and financial consequences.

Preview​

Read current retirement state and blockers without mutating:

proof liskov application retire APPLICATION_ID

Review existing jobs and their latest scheduled end, active reserves or settlement reviews, and the records that will remain in the receipt.

Start retirement​

proof liskov application retire APPLICATION_ID \
  --reason "project complete" \
  --yes

Starting retirement atomically pauses the Application and stops new Liskov work. It does not stop existing jobs, claw back chain spend, or erase evidence.

Retirement reports one of these phases while it is active:

  1. terminalizing_local — Liskov is closing only locally controlled work;
  2. waiting_for_schedule_end — existing schedules have not reached a verified chain end;
  3. waiting_for_financial_tail — reserves, final charges, releases, or reviews remain; or
  4. blocked — ambiguous or non-automatic evidence needs review.

Completion requires execution, financial, and ambiguity blocker counts to be exactly zero. The Application then becomes deleted and the immutable receipt replaces mutable retirement state.

Cancel while allowed​

Before the irreversible finalization boundary:

proof liskov application retire cancel APPLICATION_ID \
  --reason "retirement requested in error" \
  --yes

Cancellation leaves the Application paused. Resume separately after reviewing policy, funding, and any ended jobs.

Verify the receipt​

The final receipt binds the organization and Application UID, requester, reason, request and deletion times, initial and final assessments, retirement event-stream head, and receipt digest. Keep it with your own operational records.

There is no public force-delete or force-stop bypass. If a phase remains blocked beyond its stated boundary, follow Billing, settlement, and retirement and escalate with non-secret evidence.