backup-restore-test-evidence SKILL.md skillA
backup-restore-test-evidence from better-isms/grcskills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add better-isms/grcskills/backup-restore-test-evidence@git:20261027.690016cPins git:20261027.690016c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- better-isms/grcskills
- Path
skills/tristan-roth/backup-restore-test-evidence/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261027.690016c, committed Oct 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 19, 2026
- Size
- 7,584 bytes
- Repository stars
- 56
- License
- MIT
Use this skill when a restore test is due, an auditor or customer asks for proof that backups can be recovered, or someone says "plan a restore test", "prove we can recover in time", "our backups succeed but we never restored", "test our RTO and RPO", "write up the disaster recovery test" or "document the backup restore for the audit". Picks what to restore, writes a test plan with success criteria set before the test, records timings against the recovery objectives, and produces a signed-off…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
Use this at least once per review cycle the company has set, rotating across critical services, and after any major change to the backup setup. You get two documents in a new folder, `./backup-restore-test-evidence/`: a test plan written before anyone touches a backup, with the service, the scenario and the pass criteria (`test-plan.md`), and after the test a record with the measured times, the results, the findings and a sign-off line for the system owner (`test-record.md`). This skill drafts for a human to review and sign; this skill never marks a control effective. The reader's team runs the restore; the agent plans and records. End `test-record.md` with `## Not checked`: what this run did not read or could not open, what it assumed and what it did not verify, specific to this run. ## Inputs to gather …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add better-isms/grcskills/backup-restore-test-evidence@sha256:7846db71b9cde4f0The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261027.690016c, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_iwqs66rsf2emavqi)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 27, 2026, about one every 3 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261027.690016c latest | 2026-10-27 | 690016c | 7,584 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.94f7f3e | 2026-10-27 | 94f7f3e | 7,571 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.20937b5 | 2026-10-19 | 20937b5 | 7,336 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261019.3c6cd53 | 2026-10-19 | 3c6cd53 | 7,198 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7584 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
better-isms/grcskills · 56 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_iwqs66rsf2emavqi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=better-isms/grcskills/backup-restore-test-evidence GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7846db71b9cde4f04d494cc610193e960e0818e8ddc51f607b81a13eb7b4631e
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