restic SKILL.md skillA
restic from magnus919/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/restic@git:20260715.47f7aa1Pins git:20260715.47f7aa1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- magnus919/agent-skills
- Path
restic/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260715.47f7aa1, committed Jul 15, 2026
- Size
- 7,335 bytes
- Repository stars
- 166
- License
- MIT
Install, configure, operate, secure, automate, tune, troubleshoot, and recover restic backups across local, SFTP, S3-compatible, cloud, and REST backends. Use when creating or managing a restic repository, designing backup or retention policy, validating restores, handling repository health or locks, moving repositories, or building safe scheduled backup jobs. Do not use for a generic file-copy task that does not need encrypted, deduplicated snapshots.
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
# Restic Restic is a backup CLI, not a daemon. Treat a scheduled job or service manager as the execution layer. Every usable backup design proves four things: the source was captured, the repository is readable, retention is intentional, and a restore works in a separate target. ## Operating contract 1. Discover before changing anything: restic version, backend type, repository format, source paths, credentials mechanism, schedule, retention policy, and recovery objective. 2. Keep repository passwords and backend credentials out of command history, logs, templates, and chat. Prefer a root/user-readable password file or a secret manager command over inline values. 3. Before any mutation, confirm target repository, source scope, exclusions, retention groups, schedule, maintenance window, and rollback/recovery path. Read-only discovery may proceed without confirmation. 4. Back up with stable host and tag conventions. Inspect the resulting snapshot, then test a restore into an empty, separate target. A successful backup exit code is not recovery evidence. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add magnus919/agent-skills/restic@sha256:5deb48d1d27b086bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260715.47f7aa1, 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_nkuaa6lk7kxdzy36)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 15, 2026.
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 (7335 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
magnus919/agent-skills · 166 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nkuaa6lk7kxdzy36 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=magnus919/agent-skills/restic GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5deb48d1d27b086bd8d185763290df99c8bf0c7530d3d02feefa136d5a4a471d
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.