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title: Suggestions (archived) — Reference
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# Suggestions (archived) — Reference

The **suggestion** entity is **retired**. It predates the fleet **work-record**
model. Gated needs, findings, and unvetted sparks are recorded as **intake**
work records (`kind: intake`).

| Use | Path |
|-----|------|
| **Current** | [Intakes](/docs/intakes) · `POST /intakes/` · MCP `create_intake` |
| **Canon** | `the-custodian/canon/standards/work-record-types_v0.1.md` |
| **Archived record** | `the-custodian/docs/archived-suggestion-backlog.md` |

Umbrella: [Work Records](/docs/work-records).

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## What happened

The suggestion backlog was a demand-weighted queue: agents that hit an unmet
need raised a suggestion, repeat encounters bumped its relevance, and WSJF
scoring ordered what to build. Intake covers the same discovery step inside the
work-record framework rather than beside it.

| Date | Step |
|------|------|
| 2026-07-21 | Mutations retired (`CUST-WP-0061-T06`) — every write returns HTTP 410. Reads kept live so the history stayed reachable. |
| 2026-08-20 | History archived to `the-custodian`; read routes, MCP tools, and this dashboard page retired (`STATE-WP-0079-T05`, slice E1). |

Every route under `/suggestions` now returns **HTTP 410** with a pointer to
intake and to the archive.

## The archived record

All 10 suggestions, 10 notes, and 5 relevance bumps are preserved in
`the-custodian/docs/archived-suggestion-backlog.md`, with each entry's origin,
WSJF inputs, and migration target.

Every entry was closed as `declined` during the intake migration and **none was
promoted** — the backlog was drained deliberately, not abandoned. The per-entry
notes name each one's successor intake (`CUST-IN-0001`, `CUST-IN-0002`, …).

The record lives in `the-custodian` rather than here because State Hub is being
archived under `STATE-WP-0079`; a record kept inside the component it documents
disappears with it.

## What is not retired

**Dashboard UI feedback** — the Shift+click suggestions on
[Todo](/docs/todo) and the UI Feedback page — is a *different* entity backed by
`technical_debt`, and is unaffected. The shared word is a coincidence of naming.

## Data

The `suggestions`, `suggestion_notes`, and `suggestion_relevance_bumps` tables
are intentionally still present. They are `retire`/`archive` in `SHR-INV-0001`
and are captured by the final dump at `STATE-WP-0079-T06`; dropping them ahead
of that dump would remove data for no gain.
