What is knowledge transfer offboarding?

Knowledge transfer offboarding is a concept in personal epistemology: Retire agents gracefully — document what they did, why they're being retired, and what replaces them.

Example: You have been running a weekly meal-prep agent for two years — every Sunday afternoon you plan the week's meals, shop, and batch-cook for four hours. The agent worked well when you lived alone and worked from home. But you have moved in with a partner who enjoys cooking together on weekday evenings, and you have started a job with an office lunch program. The Sunday ritual no longer fits your life. So you stop. Cold. No documentation, no conversation with your partner about what the old routine covered, no thought about the nutritional planning it handled automatically. Within three weeks you realize you have no vegetables in the house, you are eating out five nights a week, and the grocery budget has doubled. The meal-prep agent was doing more than cooking — it was managing nutrition, budget, and inventory. You retired the agent but did not retire its responsibilities. The agent is gone. Its job is not.

This concept is part of Phase 30 (Agent Lifecycle) in the How to Think curriculum, which builds the epistemic infrastructure for agent lifecycle.