Verify backup and restore readiness for hosts and services. Use when CTOX needs to inspect snapshot or backup coverage, retention, restore procedures, database dump validity, off-host copies, or disaster recovery confidence after a critical change or as a recurring assurance check.
Use this skill for backup freshness, restoreability, and disaster-recovery confidence.
Do not use it for generic filesystem health or planned change work:
reliability_ops for disk pressure or failed jobschange_lifecycle for backup configuration changesincident_response when the system is already in an outageThis skill uses the shared SQLite kernel via skill_key=recovery_assurance.
Preferred helper scripts under scripts/:
recovery_collect.pyrecovery_capture_run.pyrecovery_store.pyrecovery_query.pyrecovery_bootstrap.pyThey are open helper resources.
recovery.capture_rawrecovery.store_capturerecovery.store_graphrecovery.queryrecovery.bootstrap_assurancebackup_coverage, restore_evidence, rpo_gap, and dr_runbook.change_lifecycle.Answer for the operator first.
Use these exact headings:
**Status****State****Scope****Autonomous Actions****Escalation****Current Findings****Next Step**State must be one of:
proposedpreparedexecutedblockedRecovery assurance usually remains prepared unless a real restore verification or assurance action actually ran.
Do not finish the reply until all of the following are true: