restore

A command for replacing the central Gnosys database with data from a backup file. Gnosys is the database system used by the command.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restore a backup, check memory and project totals, and receive either readable or JSON-formatted results.
Why use it?
It restores stored data after a failure, mistake, or move to another database copy, and reports the restored counts.

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/proticom/gnosys/restore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/proticom/gnosys
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 444 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 $0.00444
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00222
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00044

Measured 2d ago against content hash 02d28ec57210, 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 · 79 lines

What it actually says

gnosys restore

Restore the central Gnosys database from a backup file.

Usage

gnosys restore ./gnosys-backup-20260528.db
gnosys restore backup-placeholder --from ./gnosys-backup-20260528.db
gnosys restore ./gnosys-backup-20260528.db --json

Options

Option Description
--from <file> Backup file to restore from (overrides positional <backupFile>)
--json Output result as JSON

Behavior

  1. Resolves the backup path: path.resolve(opts.from || backupFile).
  2. Calls GnosysDB.restore(resolved) to replace the central DB from the backup.
  3. Reads memory and project counts from the restored DB.
  4. Prints human-readable success output or JSON.
  5. Closes the restored DB handle in finally.

Output modes

Human (default):

Database restored from /path/to/backup.db
  Memories: 42 (40 active, 2 archived)
  Projects: 3

JSON (--json):

{
  "ok": true,
  "source": "/path/to/backup.db",
  "memories": 42,
  "active": 40,
  "archived": 2,
  "projects": 3
}

Errors

Restore failure (human):

Restore failed: <message>

Restore failure (JSON):

{ "ok": false, "error": "<message>" }

Failure paths set process.exitCode = 1 and return through finally so the DB handle is closed.

Validation

cd gnosys-public
npm run cli -- restore --help
npx vitest run src/test/restore-command-handler.test.ts
  • gnosys backup — create a central DB backup.
  • gnosys sync — remote sync of the central DB.
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 · 79 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 02d28ec57210

Subscribe to this mod's changes

restore is a command published in the GitHub repository proticom/gnosys (4 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 444 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 2026-08-31.