anchors discard

Take off the board the card that no longer makes sense, without deleting it.

Marks one or more cards as DISCARDED.

The card leaves the board — columns, tree, roadmap, pending strip — and stays on
GitHub with the reason recorded. It is for what no longer makes sense, not for what
finished: delivered work CLOSES, and the roadmap needs it to draw the past.

The cases that motivated it, in the reference project:

  · test cards of the flow itself ("[test] state lock — delete")
  · findings about files that no longer exist (`Orfa.spec.md`, `ZzTeste.spec.md`)
  · questions the project answered by another path

DO NOT use it for work that got done — that is closing. Nor for what still matters and
nobody took: a forgotten card is still work, and hiding it from the board is the
quietest way of losing it.

Usage

anchors discard <card>... [flags]

Flags

Flag	Default	What it does
--reason		why this card no longer makes sense
--root	.	project root

The work queue — family

Commands of the same family — what tells each apart:

Command	What it does
anchors next	Pull and claim the next item from the queue (the worker calls this)
anchors queue	List live tasks (the work the watcher queued)
anchors work	Emit the work prompt of a stage (spec|code|feature|test|review) for a target
anchors done	Close claimed task(s) (moves to the .anchors/done/ history)
anchors drop	Discard a task from the queue without completing it (removes; does not archive)
anchors reclaim	Return to the queue the tasks stuck in claimed (dead worker)
anchors deliver	Record the delivery of a stage — the review trigger
anchors decided	Release the card escalate --for-user stopped, once the decision is made
anchors discard	Take off the board the card that no longer makes sense, without deleting it
anchors unblock	Open the work card that unblocks a card stuck in needs-user
anchors escalate	Open the issue for a change needed in the plan or the spec
anchors report-bug	Report a bug in Anchors itself at github.com/co2-lab/anchors
anchors synthesize	Two PRs conflicting in CONTENT become a synthesis card
anchors watch	The background watcher: sees changes and QUEUES work
anchors monitor	Watch the project’s long processes: one line when one starts, stalls, dies or ends
anchors flow	Operate the work flows (the puzzle of actions and results)
anchors board	The project board — published by the pipeline, or served live