Agent skill

Auto Deletion Workflow

by mukul975 in mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills

Implements automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry.

Apache-2.0Auto-check passedLegal & Compliance

Install Auto Deletion Workflow

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills --skill auto-deletion-workflow -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills auto-deletion-workflow --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/privacy/auto-deletion-workflow .claude/skills/auto-deletion-workflow && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
auto-deletion-workflow
GitHub stars
297
Token cost
~3.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
977 words
Files
5 (incl. scripts, references, assets)
Skills in repo
280
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Apache-2.0

At a glance

Implements automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry.

  • Works in 4 steps: Immutability: Deletion confirmation… → Retention of confirmation records: 3… → No personal data in logs: Confirmation… → …
  • Tasks that involve Privacy and GDPR
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Legal Foundation, Automated Deletion Architecture and Deletion Workflow Procedures, plus 4 more sections
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Auto Deletion Workflow is an agent skill from mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills. Implements automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry. Covers cascading deletion across dependent systems, dependency handling for referential integrity, confirmation logging, and audit trail generation. Activate for automated deletion, erasure automation, data purge, retention expiry queries.

Its SKILL.md is about 3.9k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 7 other files, including scripts, reference files and assets (for example `assets/template.md`, `references/standards.md` and `references/workflows.md`).

It sits in Legal & Compliance, covering Privacy and GDPR. The repository describes itself as: 282+ structured privacy & data protection skills for AI agents. GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act, HIPAA, LGPD, PIPL, DPDP Act. The licence is Apache-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Privacy and GDPR

Example prompts

  • “Use the auto-deletion-workflow skill to implement automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry”
  • “/auto-deletion-workflow”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Immutability: Deletion confirmation records are written to an append-only audit log (write-once storage or blockchain-anchored hash).
  2. Retention of confirmation records: 3 years from deletion date (sufficient to demonstrate compliance if challenged).
  3. No personal data in logs: Confirmation records reference data subjects by pseudonymised identifier only — never by name, email, or other…
  4. Searchability: Records must be searchable by deletion reference, data subject hash, trigger type, system, and date range.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9b2ef9e. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 1 file in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Auto Deletion Workflow loads about 3.9k tokens when it runs, and up to ~5.3k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 977 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~3.9k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~5.3k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills at commit 9b2ef9e, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© mukul975). 977 words, ~3,929 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/auto-deletion-workflow/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 4 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
auto-deletion-workflow
description
Implements automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry. Covers cascading deletion across dependent systems, dependency handling for referential integrity, confirmation logging, and audit trail generation. Activate for automated deletion, erasure automation, data purge, retention expiry queries.
license
Apache-2.0
metadata.author
mukul975
metadata.version
1.0
metadata.domain
privacy
metadata.subdomain
data-retention-deletion
metadata.tags
automated-deletion, right-to-erasure, gdpr-article-17, data-purge, retention-expiry

Automated Data Deletion Workflow

Overview

Automated deletion workflows ensure that personal data is removed from all systems when retention periods expire or when a valid erasure request is received under GDPR Article 17. Manual deletion at scale is error-prone and fails to meet the storage limitation principle consistently. This skill defines the architecture, logic, and operational procedures for building automated deletion pipelines that handle cascading dependencies, maintain referential integrity, produce audit-grade confirmation logs, and satisfy both scheduled retention expiry and on-demand erasure requests.

GDPR Article 17(1) — Right to Erasure

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay, and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the specified grounds applies.

GDPR Article 5(1)(e) — Storage Limitation

Personal data shall be kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed. Automated deletion is the primary technical measure for enforcing this principle at scale.

GDPR Article 25(1) — Data Protection by Design

The controller shall implement appropriate technical and organisational measures designed to implement data-protection principles, such as data minimisation, in an effective manner. Automated deletion is a core by-design control.

GDPR Article 30(1)(f) — Envisaged Time Limits for Erasure

Records of processing activities must include, where possible, the envisaged time limits for erasure of the different categories of data. Automated deletion systems operationalize these envisaged time limits.

Automated Deletion Architecture

Deletion Trigger Types
Trigger TypeSourceSLAPriority
Retention expiryRetention schedule metadata reaching calculated deletion dateWithin 30 days of expiryStandard
Data subject erasure requestVerified Art. 17 request via DSAR workflowWithin 30 calendar days of verified requestHigh
Consent withdrawalConsent management platform eventWithin 30 days (best practice: 72 hours)High
Account closureCustomer account termination eventPer retention schedule (post-closure retention period)Standard
Purpose completionProcessing purpose fulfilled, no further legal basisWithin 30 days of purpose completionStandard
Legal hold releaseLitigation hold lifted by Legal counselWithin 14 days of hold releaseStandard
System Architecture
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                   DELETION ORCHESTRATOR                      │
│  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────────┐  │
│  │  Trigger      │  │  Dependency  │  │  Execution       │  │
│  │  Engine       │  │  Resolver    │  │  Engine          │  │
│  │              │  │              │  │                  │  │
│  │ - Scheduled   │  │ - FK mapping │  │ - System agents  │  │
│  │ - Event-driven│  │ - Cascade    │  │ - API calls      │  │
│  │ - On-demand   │  │   rules      │  │ - Direct DB ops  │  │
│  │ - Hold check  │  │ - Orphan     │  │ - File system    │  │
│  │              │  │   handling   │  │   purge          │  │
│  └──────┬───────┘  └──────┬───────┘  └────────┬─────────┘  │
│         │                 │                    │             │
│         └────────┬────────┘                    │             │
│                  ▼                             │             │
│  ┌──────────────────────────┐                 │             │
│  │  Deletion Job Queue      │─────────────────┘             │
│  │  (Priority-ordered)      │                               │
│  └──────────────────────────┘                               │
│                  │                                           │
│                  ▼                                           │
│  ┌──────────────────────────┐  ┌──────────────────────────┐ │
│  │  Confirmation Logger     │  │  Audit Trail Generator   │ │
│  │  - Per-system status     │  │  - Immutable audit log   │ │
│  │  - Completion timestamp  │  │  - Deletion certificate  │ │
│  │  - Verification hash     │  │  - Regulatory report     │ │
│  └──────────────────────────┘  └──────────────────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Deletion Workflow Procedures

Workflow 1: Scheduled Retention Expiry Deletion
[Daily Retention Scan — 02:00 UTC]
         │
         ▼
[Query all records where calculated_deletion_date <= TODAY + 30 days]
         │
         ▼
[For each record approaching expiry]
   │
   ├── [Check: Active litigation hold?]
   │     ├── Yes ──► [Skip — log hold reference, notify Legal]
   │     └── No ──► Continue
   │
   ├── [Check: Active regulatory investigation?]
   │     ├── Yes ──► [Skip — log investigation reference]
   │     └── No ──► Continue
   │
   ├── [Check: Pending data subject request referencing this data?]
   │     ├── Yes ──► [Coordinate with DSAR workflow]
   │     └── No ──► Continue
   │
   ├── [Check: Retention exception approved?]
   │     ├── Yes ──► [Skip — log exception reference and expiry]
   │     └── No ──► Continue
   │
   ▼
[Add to deletion job queue with priority: STANDARD]
         │
         ▼
[On calculated_deletion_date: Execute deletion]
Workflow 2: On-Demand Erasure Request Deletion
[Verified Art. 17 Erasure Request Received]
         │
         ▼
[Data Discovery — Identify all instances of data subject's data]
   │
   ├── Primary databases (CRM, ERP, HR system)
   ├── Data warehouse and analytics platforms
   ├── File storage (SharePoint, network drives, cloud storage)
   ├── Email and communication systems
   ├── Backup and archive systems
   ├── Third-party processor systems
   └── Logs and audit trails
         │
         ▼
[Generate Deletion Manifest]
   Reference: DEL-YYYY-NNNN
   Data Subject: [Pseudonymised reference]
   Systems identified: [List with record counts]
   Exceptions identified: [Any Art. 17(3) exceptions]
   Estimated completion: [Date]
         │
         ▼
[DPO Review and Approval]
   ├── Approved ──► [Add to deletion job queue with priority: HIGH]
   └── Exceptions found ──► [Partial deletion — exclude excepted data]
         │
         ▼
[Execute deletion across all identified systems]
Workflow 3: Cascading Deletion Logic

When deleting a primary record, dependent records across related systems must also be deleted. The cascading deletion resolver handles referential integrity:

[Primary Record Identified for Deletion]
         │
         ▼
[Load Dependency Map for Record Type]
         │
         ▼
[Resolve Dependencies — Depth-First Traversal]
   │
   ├── [Level 0: Primary record]
   │     Example: Customer record in CRM
   │
   ├── [Level 1: Direct dependents]
   │     Example: Orders, support tickets, consent records
   │
   ├── [Level 2: Secondary dependents]
   │     Example: Order line items, payment records, shipping records
   │
   └── [Level 3+: Tertiary dependents]
         Example: Invoice line items, refund records
         │
         ▼
[For each dependent record]
   │
   ├── [Shared dependency?]
   │     (Record also linked to other primary records not being deleted)
   │     ├── Yes ──► [Nullify foreign key — do NOT delete]
   │     └── No ──► [Add to deletion manifest]
   │
   ├── [Legal retention override?]
   │     (Dependent record has its own statutory retention requirement)
   │     ├── Yes ──► [Anonymize link to primary record, retain dependent]
   │     └── No ──► [Add to deletion manifest]
   │
   └── [Aggregated/statistical record?]
         (Record contributes to aggregated reporting)
         ├── Yes ──► [Anonymize — remove personal identifiers, retain aggregate]
         └── No ──► [Add to deletion manifest]
         │
         ▼
[Execute deletion in reverse order (deepest dependents first)]
   Level 3+ ──► Level 2 ──► Level 1 ──► Level 0

Dependency Map Template

The following dependency map is configured for Orion Data Vault Corp:

Primary EntityDependent EntityRelationshipDeletion ActionRetention Override
CustomerOrders1:NCascade delete (after statutory retention)6 years — HMRC
CustomerSupport Tickets1:NCascade delete3 years — limitation period
CustomerConsent Records1:NCascade deleteRetain suppression record
CustomerMarketing Preferences1:1Cascade deleteRetain opt-out on suppression list
CustomerAccount Audit Log1:NAnonymize (nullify customer reference)7 years — audit retention
OrderOrder Lines1:NCascade deleteFollows order retention
OrderPayment Records1:NAnonymize6 years — financial records
OrderShipping Records1:NCascade deleteFollows order retention
OrderInvoices1:NAnonymize6 years — tax records
EmployeePayroll Records1:NCascade delete (after statutory retention)6 years — PAYE Regulations
EmployeePerformance Reviews1:NCascade deleteDuration of employment + 6 years
EmployeeAccess Logs1:NAnonymize2 years — security retention

Confirmation Logging

Deletion Confirmation Record Structure

Every deletion execution produces an immutable confirmation record:

DELETION CONFIRMATION RECORD — Orion Data Vault Corp
-----------------------------------------------------
Reference: DEL-2026-0142
Trigger: Retention expiry / Art. 17 request / Consent withdrawal
Data Subject Reference: DS-HASH-a3f8c2e1
Request Date: 2026-02-15 (if applicable)
Execution Date: 2026-03-14
Completed Date: 2026-03-14T14:23:07Z

SYSTEMS PROCESSED:
┌─────────────────────────┬──────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ System                  │ Records  │ Action        │ Status           │
├─────────────────────────┼──────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ CRM (Salesforce)        │ 1        │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ ERP (SAP)               │ 47       │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ Data Warehouse (BQ)     │ 312      │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ Email (Exchange)        │ 23       │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ File Storage (S3)       │ 8        │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ Backup (Veeam)          │ N/A      │ Flagged       │ Pending (cycle)  │
│ Analytics (Mixpanel)    │ 156      │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ Support (Zendesk)       │ 12       │ Hard delete   │ Confirmed        │
│ Audit Log               │ 89       │ Anonymized    │ Confirmed        │
│ Payment (Stripe)        │ 5        │ Anonymized    │ Confirmed        │
└─────────────────────────┴──────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────┘

THIRD-PARTY NOTIFICATIONS (Art. 19):
- Processor A (Analytics SaaS): Notified 2026-03-14, confirmed 2026-03-16
- Processor B (Email service): Notified 2026-03-14, confirmed 2026-03-15
- Processor C (Payment gateway): Notified 2026-03-14, pending

EXCEPTIONS APPLIED:
- Financial records (invoices): Anonymized, retained until 2032-03-14 (6-year statutory period)
- Audit log entries: Anonymized, retained until 2033-03-14 (7-year audit retention)

BACKUP DELETION:
- Backup system: Next full rotation cycle completes 2026-06-12
- Expected complete erasure from backups: 2026-06-12

VERIFICATION:
- Post-deletion scan completed: 2026-03-14T14:45:00Z
- Residual data found: None
- Verification hash: SHA-256:e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb924...

Executed by: Deletion Orchestrator v3.2 (automated)
Reviewed by: [DPO Name] (for Art. 17 requests only)
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Audit Trail Requirements
  1. Immutability: Deletion confirmation records are written to an append-only audit log (write-once storage or blockchain-anchored hash).
  2. Retention of confirmation records: 3 years from deletion date (sufficient to demonstrate compliance if challenged).
  3. No personal data in logs: Confirmation records reference data subjects by pseudonymised identifier only — never by name, email, or other direct identifier.
  4. Searchability: Records must be searchable by deletion reference, data subject hash, trigger type, system, and date range.

Error Handling and Retry Logic

Deletion Failure Handling
Failure TypeActionRetryEscalation
System unavailableQueue for retry3 attempts at 1h, 4h, 24h intervalsAlert IT Operations after 3 failures
Permission deniedLog error, flag for manual reviewNo automatic retryEscalate to system administrator
Referential integrity violationRoute to dependency resolverRe-resolve dependencies, retryEscalate to DPO if unresolvable
Partial deletion (some records failed)Log successful deletions, retry failed3 attemptsEscalate to IT + DPO
Third-party processor non-responseSend reminder at 7 daysFollow up at 14 daysEscalate to DPO + Legal at 21 days
Backup system — cannot delete from active backupFlag for next rotation cycleMonitor backup rotation scheduleAlert if not completed within 90 days
Rollback Considerations

Deletion is inherently irreversible. Therefore:

  1. Pre-deletion snapshot: For Art. 17 requests, take a temporary encrypted snapshot of the data to be deleted. Retain for 72 hours after deletion execution to allow for error correction. Auto-destroy after 72 hours.
  2. Staged execution: For large-scale retention expiry deletions (>10,000 records), execute in batches of 1,000 with verification between batches.
  3. Dry-run mode: All new deletion rules must be tested in dry-run mode for 30 days before activation. Dry-run produces the deletion manifest and confirmation record without executing actual deletion.

Monitoring and Reporting

Key Metrics
MetricTargetMeasurement
Retention expiry deletion completion rate99.5% within 30 days of expiryMonthly
Art. 17 erasure request completion rate100% within 30 calendar daysPer request
Average deletion execution time< 4 hours (end-to-end across all systems)Per execution
Failed deletion rate< 0.5%Monthly
Backup deletion completion rate100% within backup rotation cyclePer rotation
Third-party processor confirmation rate100% within 14 daysPer notification
Quarterly Compliance Report

The automated deletion system generates a quarterly report containing:

  1. Total records deleted by trigger type (retention expiry, Art. 17, consent withdrawal, etc.)
  2. Deletion completion rates against SLA targets
  3. Exceptions applied (with legal basis breakdown)
  4. Failed deletions and resolution status
  5. Third-party processor compliance rates
  6. Backup deletion status and outstanding items
  7. Trend analysis (volume growth, system coverage, performance)

© mukul975, Apache-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 4 other files (scripts, references, assets) in skills/privacy/auto-deletion-workflow of mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/template.md
  • references/standards.md
  • references/workflows.md
  • scripts/process.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9b2ef9e

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Questions about Auto Deletion Workflow

What does Auto Deletion Workflow do?

Implements automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry. Auto Deletion Workflow is an agent skill from mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills. Implements automated data deletion workflows for GDPR Article 17 right to erasure and retention period expiry.

When should I use Auto Deletion Workflow?

Auto Deletion Workflow fits situations like: tasks that involve Privacy and GDPR.

How do I install Auto Deletion Workflow in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills --skill auto-deletion-workflow -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/privacy/auto-deletion-workflow in mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills) into .claude/skills/auto-deletion-workflow in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Auto Deletion Workflow in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills --skill auto-deletion-workflow -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/privacy/auto-deletion-workflow in mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills) into .agents/skills/auto-deletion-workflow in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Auto Deletion Workflow in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills --skill auto-deletion-workflow -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/auto-deletion-workflow, .gemini/skills/auto-deletion-workflow, .github/skills/auto-deletion-workflow and .opencode/skills/auto-deletion-workflow in your project.

What does Auto Deletion Workflow need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Auto Deletion Workflow needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Auto Deletion Workflow access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Auto Deletion Workflow safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Auto Deletion Workflow use?

Auto Deletion Workflow is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Auto Deletion Workflow use?

About 3.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 16k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 1.3k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Auto Deletion Workflow?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Auto Deletion Workflow: C15t (c15t/c15t, 1.9k stars), HIPAA Safe Harbor Coverage Audit (maziyarpanahi/openmed, 5.5k stars), Korean Privacy Terms (kimlawtech/korean-privacy-terms, 586 stars) and Gdpr Compliance (Sushegaad/Claude-Skills-Governance-Risk-and-Compliance, 943 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Auto Deletion Workflow?

mukul975 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills, which has 297 GitHub stars. The repository holds 280 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on March 16, 2026.

Source: mukul975/Privacy-Data-Protection-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.