Remove API endpoints with no traffic for a full quarter
Endpoints nothing has called in a quarter, removed on traffic evidence after a deprecation window.
The ticket
Remove API endpoints that have received no traffic for a full quarter.
Acceptance criteria
- Traffic evidence covering a full quarter is attached
- The endpoints return a deprecation signal for a stated window before removal
- Known integrators are notified
- Removal is a separate change from the deprecation
What lands as proof
A quarter of traffic evidence, then a deprecation window, then removal. All three, in that order.
Why teams defer it
- An unknown integrator may call it once a quarter, so the evidence window is never quite long enough.
- Removing an endpoint is irreversible for whoever was using it, which makes it a decision rather than a cleanup.
Questions
- What does the agent actually change?
- The ticket is scoped to one outcome: remove API endpoints that have received no traffic for a full quarter. 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 traffic evidence attached to the plan before anything is deleted, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.
- How much oversight does this need?
- The run stops for the plan, and the review bar is raised afterwards so that smaller suggestions block the merge too, not only serious findings.