Registry stack documentation: machine-readable Markdown.
Index of all pages: https://docs.registrystack.org/llms.txt
Full corpus: https://docs.registrystack.org/llms-full.txt

# bregctl idempotency-retention erase-expired command reference

> Generated syntax and options for bregctl idempotency-retention erase-expired.

{/* Generated from crates/registry-cli-docs/catalog.json and the workspace version in Cargo.toml by scripts/generate-cli-reference.mjs. Run npm run generate. */}

Drop held responses past their receipt horizon; every key stays spent and a retry is still refused.

## Contract status

This page is generated from the public Clap command tree for Registry Stack source version `0.41.0` and catalog SHA-256 `6218baa1f09ca0316bbe78f6bbe0fde53ecc5ff57f7217a4a80ea4adbaa3378b`. Hidden implementation commands are omitted.

## Usage

```text
bregctl idempotency-retention erase-expired [OPTIONS] --runtime-config <ABSOLUTE_FILE> --before <BEFORE>
```

## Options

| Option | Always required | Default | Values | Environment | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `--runtime-config <ABSOLUTE_FILE>` | Yes | n/a | n/a | n/a | Runtime configuration file. A symbolic link at any component of this path is refused. |
| `--before <BEFORE>` | Yes | n/a | n/a | n/a | RFC 3339 cutoff, no later than the current time; responses whose horizon passed before it are dropped |
| `--format <FORMAT>` | No | `human` | `human`, `json` | n/a | Emit the selected command's report in this format |
| `-h, --help` | No | n/a | n/a | n/a | Print help |

## Generation contract

After changing a public command, argument, option, default, environment binding, or help description, run `cargo run --locked -p registry-cli-docs -- --write`, commit `crates/registry-cli-docs/catalog.json`, then run `npm run generate` from `docs/site`.