Archived one-shot scripts (scripts/_archive/)

Inventory of the 135 retired one-shot scripts moved out of scripts/ on 2026-06-28. These ran once during a specific wave/slice/migration and are kept for historical reference only — they are not re-runnable as-is (their relative imports no longer resolve from the archive depth) and are excluded from ESLint, Prettier, and tsconfig. Nothing in the live tree imports them (verified by reference check before the move).

If you need the behaviour of one again, don't un-archive it — read it for the recipe, then write a fresh standing tool (or extend an existing one) under scripts/. The recurring patterns these encode now live in durable tools: translation → scripts/wave23/ + the ADR-069 gate; image sourcing → the image pipeline; data shape → the schema + validate-data.

Why these were archived

The live scripts/ directory had grown to ~260 files, ~165 of them one-shots, drowning the ~60 standing tools agents actually need. Separating them makes the durable surface legible (see the tooling index) and stops new agents from cargo-culting a dead per-batch script when a standing tool exists.

Groups

_archive/i18n/ (28) — per-wave translation passes

The historical translation toolchain: translate-*.mjs (per-surface: satellites, belts, science, iconic missions, orbit rulers, fly phases, launchers, shuttles, tides, v0.7 UI, …), apply-slice-*-translations.mjs, seed-satellite-i18n.mjs, patch-tooltip-messages.mjs, wave-credits-keys.mjs, fill-moon-sites-locale-gaps.ts. The scripts that wrote or replayed paraglide-key-overrides.json (paraglide-add-keys, add-flat-patch-i18n and four translate passes) were deleted with that file on 2026-10-30: it was stale and replaying it would have undone reviewed translations. Superseded by scripts/wave23/ (catalog → maps → apply) + the ADR-069 overlay-completeness gate in validate-data.

_archive/image-sourcing/ (39) — per-batch fetch + hand-source passes

fetch-batch-2-*, fetch-broader-*, fetch-followup-*, fetch-phase3c-*, fetch-right-stuff-*, fetch-satellite-*, fetch-slice-*, fetch-spacecraft-*, fetch-tier-*, fetch-v2-practice-pass, fetch-via-agency-registry, fetch-zero-image-entities, fetch-iconic-better-heroes, the handsource-* family (11 manual-sourcing passes), hubble-pass, sun-replace, audit-fleet-weak-heroes, audit-image-source-order. Superseded by the standing image pipeline: fetch-assets.ts (agency-first, staging-by-default), fill-gallery-gaps.ts, source-known-gaps.ts, fetch-fleet-sub-a-curation.ts.

_archive/slices/ (19) — the slice-by-slice imagery curation waves

slice-a-* (dryrun / vision-pass / salvage / review / cluster-report / apply / manual-source), slice-b-*, slice-explore-*, slice-f-audit, slice-pre-a-corpus-vet, build-slice-{a,b,c}-*. The /dev/slice-a-review route is the (now-orphaned) review surface these fed; the durable equivalent is /dev/staging (RFC-029).

_archive/data-builds/ (20) — one-time catalog builders

build-apollo-missions, build-mercury-missions, build-tier-{b,c,d,f,g}-*, build-followup-entries, build-right-stuff-entries, bodies-{apply,salvage}, belts-{curate,structure-curate}, copy-mission-to-fleet, curate-science-sections, augment-flight-rosters{,-2}, scaffold-fleet-entries, wire-spacecraft-refs, fix-stringified-arrays. These seeded static/data/ catalogs that are now committed and edited in place.

_archive/migrations-fixups/ (17) — one-time schema migrations + backfills

migrate-fleet-{crew-flights,en-us-overlays,learn-links}, migrate-{mission,site}-fleet-refs, backfill-{cislunar-profiles,region-bounds,traverse-stops,sidecar-from-report,walker-fallback-titles,crewed-flag}, remap-sidecars-after-dupe-delete, harvest-sidecars-from-sourcing-report, fill-{hotspot-metadata,site-story}-stubs, seed-iss-overlays, patch-image-provenance. Note: migrate-fleet-linked-missions.ts and migrate-fleet-linked-sites.ts were kept in scripts/ (not archived) because validate-data emits them as live fix-hints when fleet_refs↔linked_* drift — see content-pipelines.md.

_archive/diagnostics/ (4) — scratch/diagnostic probes

_hirise-{diag,dtype,pattern}.ts (HiRISE format probes from the hotspots bring-up), analyze-moon-meet-points.mjs.

Reversibility

The move was git mv (history preserved). To inspect any script's full history: git log --follow scripts/_archive/<group>/<name>. Deleting _archive/ entirely is safe at any time — nothing references it.