# TESS-MIG-001 — Retention and Legacy Deprecation Policy

## Retention

- Hermes is not a Mosaic persistence authority. The adapter maps runtime behavior only; it does not import or persist Hermes legacy session shapes.
- Mosaic operator memory is scoped by tenant, owner, and session in `packages/memory/src/operator-memory-plugin.ts`; gateway session ownership is derived before that plugin is made available in `apps/gateway/src/agent/agent.service.ts`.
- Existing Hermes archives remain in their source system under its existing retention policy. This project has no landed automatic transcript, profile, or preference migration.
- Any future import requires an explicit, scoped design and redaction/provenance evidence; it must not extend `packages/types` with Hermes schema.

## Deprecation

- Session adapter use remains transitional until M5 qualification demonstrates the normalized provider path.
- Kanban, skills, memory, tools, and cron are not deprecated into a Hermes bridge: they remain explicitly unsupported until their Mosaic-owned contracts are implemented and qualified.
- A future deprecation change must remove the external binding first, retain rollback evidence, and then remove the adapter in a separately reviewed code change. It must not silently replace or widen a registered provider.
