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State Retention Policy

Data artifactGovernance & ComplianceSafety, Security & Governancearc:StateRetentionPolicy

A governance policy specifying how long persisted workflow state is kept after completion and when it must be deleted.

Responsibility. Specifies retention and deletion rules for persisted workflow state.

Also known as: Retention policy

Direct neighbourhood (hover for relationship types)

Relationships

constrains control

State Checkpoint Store abstract Ch1.6

Design guidance

MUST be defined for distributed state, which otherwise persists indefinitely.
SHOULD reconcile domain audit-trail mandates (retention for years) with privacy requirements for immediate deletion.

Classification

Quality attributes: Transparency and accountability (NIST AI RMF: accountable and transparent)Privacy (NIST AI RMF: privacy-enhanced)
Risks mitigated: Unbounded database growthPrivacy violations from over-retention

Sources

Ch1.6: T. Nguyen, "Stateful Orchestration - Pitfalls, Integration, and Synthesis," in Mastering Agentic AI Systems: Guide for the NVIDIA NCP-AAI Exam, 1st ed. 2026, ch. 1.6. ISBN: 9798244538229.