restore

A command for restoring PAI data from a directory created by its backup command, including an optional PostgreSQL database restore. PostgreSQL is a database system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restore from a chosen backup path, optionally skip the database, and run non-interactively without a confirmation prompt.
Why use it?
It provides a way to recover stored data after loss, migration, or another problem using an existing backup.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/mnott/pai/restore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mnott/PAI
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 373 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00373
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00037

Measured 2d ago against content hash 02e2a88d1190, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

restore scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

docs/commands/restore.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

pai restore

Restore from a backup directory (created by pai backup)

Synopsis

pai restore [backup-path] [options]

Arguments

Argument Kind
[backup-path] optional

Options

Option Description Default
--no-postgres Skip restoring the Postgres database
--yes Skip confirmation prompt (non-interactive)

See also

pai backup · pai clear-names · pai daemon · pai db · pai end · pai help · pai identity · pai kg · pai mcp · pai memory · pai notify · pai observation · pai obsidian · pai pause · pai project · pai projects · pai registry · pai session · pai sessions · pai setup · pai shell-init · pai skill · pai task · pai topic · pai update · pai zettel

Run pai help <area> to read any of these in the terminal.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 32 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 02e2a88d1190

Subscribe to this mod's changes

restore is a command published in the GitHub repository mnott/PAI (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 373 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.