# Bones to Reef

> A wind-down planner drawn as a whale fall. Type what you are ending - a club, a newsletter, a stall, a side project -
> pick when it ends (within about a month, in a few months, or no end date yet), list what it leaves behind one per
> line, and optionally list people or groups who might take things ("Name: note"). The page sorts each leftover onto
> one of four stages by fixed word lists and draws it over a whale skeleton on the deep-sea floor. One metered run
> settles anything the page could not place, gives every leftover a taker and a first move, reads the whole ending
> and writes a signpost note to leave where the thing used to be.

## The four stages

1. Scavengers (days to weeks) - things someone carries off and uses at once: kit, stock, money.
2. Enrichers (weeks to months) - an audience, list, place or slot another group keeps using.
3. Slow feeders (months to years) - notes, templates, archives and other know-how.
4. Reef (years) - friendships, skills, habits or a name that can host something new.

A line matching words of two stages takes the lower stage. A line the page cannot place is shown as "still sinking"
until a run settles it; a run never moves a line the page has placed.

## The reading (fixed order, first match wins)

1. Set a date - no end date has been chosen.
2. Needs takers - half or more of the leftovers have nobody to take them.
3. Reef ready - at least one leftover reaches stage 4.
4. Picked clean - everything has a home, but nothing is set to last.

## Takers

Takers only ever come from the person's own list, or the person keeps a stage 3 or 4 leftover, or the leftover is
unclaimed. Nobody is treated as having agreed to anything; every taker is a suggestion until the person asks.

## The paid task

- Task id: `sort-the-fall` (the app's only task).
- Input fields (all strings): task, thing, ends (soon | months | undated), leftover_count, leftovers (numbered lines
  with the page's stage in brackets), takers (lines or "(none)"), optional retry_note.
- Reply: one JSON object with verdict, headline, items (n, leftover, stage, taker, move, why), signpost, last_word.
- The page re-checks every reply: order and text of leftovers, kept page stages, takers from the list only, the
  reading re-computed from the reply's own stages and takers, no invented numbers, times or names.

## Free in the browser

The stage sketch, the whale-fall picture (SVG and PNG), Markdown, CSV and JSON downloads, and four sample sortings
that replay without charge. After a sorting, each named taker gets a ready-to-send message listing what they were
offered, copied in one click, and a re-run names which leftovers moved stage or taker.

## Sources

- Built on the SkillSafe skill @addyosmani/deprecation-and-migration:
  https://skillsafe.ai/skill/@addyosmani/deprecation-and-migration
- Named for the whale fall: when a whale dies and sinks, its body feeds the deep-sea floor in stages for decades.
- A playful planning tool, not legal, financial or professional advice.

## Links

- App: https://bones-to-reef.skillsafe.ai/
- API tutorial: https://bones-to-reef.skillsafe.ai/api.html