Plan and run backups, set recovery objectives, and run disaster recovery drills. Use this skill when defining RPO/RTO targets, designing backup architecture, deciding what to back up and how often, planning for full-region or platform outages, or running a restoration drill. Triggers on backup, restore, RPO, RTO, disaster recovery, DR, business continuity, what if the database is gone, what if our hosting goes down, recovery drill, ransomware planning. Also triggers when an incident reveals a gap in restoration capability.
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Discovery
100%Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.
This is an excellent skill description that clearly articulates specific capabilities, provides comprehensive trigger guidance with both technical and natural-language terms, and explicitly addresses both 'what' and 'when.' The inclusion of colloquial triggers like 'what if the database is gone' alongside formal terms like RPO/RTO demonstrates thoughtful coverage of how users actually express these needs.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Specificity | Lists multiple specific concrete actions: 'Plan and run backups, set recovery objectives, and run disaster recovery drills.' Further elaborated with 'defining RPO/RTO targets, designing backup architecture, deciding what to back up and how often, planning for full-region or platform outages, running a restoration drill.' | 3 / 3 |
Completeness | Clearly answers both 'what' (plan/run backups, set recovery objectives, run DR drills) and 'when' with an explicit 'Use this skill when...' clause plus a detailed 'Triggers on' list. Also includes an edge-case trigger: 'when an incident reveals a gap in restoration capability.' | 3 / 3 |
Trigger Term Quality | Excellent coverage of natural trigger terms including technical abbreviations (RPO, RTO, DR), full phrases (disaster recovery, business continuity), and natural user language ('what if the database is gone', 'what if our hosting goes down', 'ransomware planning'). Covers both formal and informal ways users would express these needs. | 3 / 3 |
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk | Occupies a clear niche around backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning. The specific triggers like RPO, RTO, DR drills, and ransomware planning are highly distinctive and unlikely to conflict with general infrastructure or incident response skills. | 3 / 3 |
Total | 12 / 12 Passed |
Implementation
62%Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.
This is a well-structured planning skill with an excellent framework (4 questions) and clear workflow, but it reads more as a comprehensive guide than a concise, actionable skill. Its main strengths are workflow clarity and the systematic approach to DR planning. Its weaknesses are the lack of concrete executable examples (no CLI commands, no code snippets, no specific tool configurations) and the length—several sections could be extracted into reference files or trimmed.
Suggestions
Add concrete, executable examples: specific CLI commands for common backup tools (e.g., pg_dump, aws s3 sync with object lock flags, restic backup commands) to make the skill actionable rather than purely advisory.
Extract 'Special topics' and 'Failure patterns' into separate reference files to reduce the main skill's length and improve progressive disclosure.
Provide the referenced restore-runbook-template.md as an actual bundle file, and consider adding a filled-out example runbook for a common scenario (e.g., PostgreSQL restore).
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The content is well-organized and mostly efficient, but includes some sections that could be tightened—e.g., the 'When NOT to use' section, the 'Special topics' section on file storage and code backups covers ground Claude already knows (what S3 versioning is, that code lives in Git). Some failure patterns are repetitive with earlier guidance. However, the framework and workflow sections earn their tokens. | 2 / 3 |
Actionability | The skill provides a clear framework and structured workflow with specific tables and checklists, but lacks executable code or commands. Restore steps say 'the exact restore steps (commands, screenshots, sequence)' without providing any concrete examples. No specific backup tool commands, CLI examples, or configuration snippets are given—it's a planning guide rather than an executable playbook. | 2 / 3 |
Workflow Clarity | The 7-step workflow is clearly sequenced with logical progression from inventory through drilling and scheduling. It includes explicit validation checkpoints (Step 5: drill, Step 6: document results comparing actual vs. target RPO/RTO), feedback loops (if actual RTO exceeds target, fix or revise), and a clear 'untested backups are not backups' philosophy throughout. | 3 / 3 |
Progressive Disclosure | The skill references one external file (restore-runbook-template.md) which is appropriate, but the bundle doesn't actually include it. The main document is quite long (~300 lines) with special topics and failure patterns that could be split into separate reference files. The structure within the document is good with clear headers, but the monolithic length works against progressive disclosure. | 2 / 3 |
Total | 9 / 12 Passed |
Validation
90%Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.
Validation — 10 / 11 Passed
Validation for skill structure
| Criteria | Description | Result |
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frontmatter_unknown_keys | Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata | Warning |
Total | 10 / 11 Passed | |
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