From 1ddb78c928d40181a571ffc7b4c5817073244c7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ramesh Padmanabhaiah <22363102+codeforester@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 23:34:35 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] docs: remove unsupported temp retention setting (#2066)

---
 docs/base-cli.md            | 1 -
 docs/local-config.md        | 1 -
 docs/runtime-environment.md | 1 -
 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/base-cli.md b/docs/base-cli.md
index 7b0a3726..b4b0afe5 100644
--- a/docs/base-cli.md
+++ b/docs/base-cli.md
@@ -337,7 +337,6 @@ Standard environment variables:
 | `BASE_CLI_ENVIRONMENT` | active environment | `dev` |
 | `BASE_CLI_LOG_LEVEL` | user stream log level | `info` |
 | `BASE_CLI_KEEP_TEMP` | keep run temp directory | `false` |
-| `BASE_CLI_TEMP_RETENTION_DAYS` | prune retained temp dirs older than N days | `7` |
 
 ### Future Organization Policy
 
diff --git a/docs/local-config.md b/docs/local-config.md
index ea8fed94..11ee6389 100644
--- a/docs/local-config.md
+++ b/docs/local-config.md
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ Recognized environment variables include:
 - `BASE_CLI_ENVIRONMENT`
 - `BASE_CLI_LOG_LEVEL`
 - `BASE_CLI_KEEP_TEMP`
-- `BASE_CLI_TEMP_RETENTION_DAYS`
 
 `BASE_CACHE_DIR` separately controls the runtime cache/log/temp root; it is not
 stored in the user config.
diff --git a/docs/runtime-environment.md b/docs/runtime-environment.md
index 506f5b00..65ec4cab 100644
--- a/docs/runtime-environment.md
+++ b/docs/runtime-environment.md
@@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ readonly by Base.
 | `BASE_CLI_ENVIRONMENT` | Python CLI config | Selects the CLI environment value used by `base_cli`. |
 | `BASE_CLI_LOG_LEVEL` | Python CLI config | Sets the Python CLI user-stream log level. |
 | `BASE_CLI_KEEP_TEMP` | Python CLI config | Keeps temp directories for inspection when true. |
-| `BASE_CLI_TEMP_RETENTION_DAYS` | Python CLI config | Retention window for pruned temp directories. |
 | `BASE_ACTIVATE_SHELL` | `basectl activate` | Overrides the Bash executable used for the activated runtime shell. |
 | `BASE_ACTIVATE_PRESERVE_CWD` | `basectl activate` | Test/user override equivalent to `--no-cd` when set to `1`. |
 | `BASE_SETUP_PROFILES` | `basectl setup` | Comma-separated setup profiles such as `dev,sre`. |