# Bring one setting back to a single place

One setting defined in three places with three different defaults, reduced to a single source.

Category: Tech debt and deprecations
Source: https://letsship.ai/use-cases/consolidate-drifted-configuration
Published: 2026-08-25

## Goal

Consolidate a setting defined in several places into one source of truth.

## Acceptance criteria

- One definition remains and every caller reads it
- Differences between the copies are reconciled explicitly
- Resolution order is tested
- The removed definitions are listed in the description

## What lands as proof

Tests on the resolution order, which is where consolidated configuration usually goes wrong.

## Prompt

Copy this to an agent to open the ticket:

```text
Create a Linear issue in my team and assign it to the SHIP agent.

Title: Consolidate the {setting} configuration

Description: Consolidate a setting defined in several places into one source of truth.

Acceptance criteria:
- One definition remains and every caller reads it
- Differences between the copies are reconciled explicitly
- Resolution order is tested
- The removed definitions are listed in the description

Before you create the issue, find a setting in this repository defined in more than one place and replace {setting}.
```

## Questions

### What does the agent actually change?

The ticket is scoped to one outcome: consolidate a setting defined in several places into one source of truth. Work that serves that outcome is in scope, and anything outside it is left for a separate ticket, so the pull request stays reviewable.

### How do I know the work is done?

The pull request carries the evidence, not only the diff. Here that means one source of truth, callers migrated, tests on the resolution, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.

### How much oversight does this need?

The run stops once the plan is written. Somebody reads the approach and approves it before any code exists, which is the cheapest moment to redirect the work.