backup-and-recovery

backup-and-recovery is a skill for Claude Code from cbrock84/headcount. It costs 55 tokens per session (734 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to planning backups and restoring company data after deletion, hardware failure, or ransomware. It covers what to copy, how long to keep it, and how to test that recovery works.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define backup coverage, retention rules, protected copies, restore tests, and recovery procedures.
Why use it?
It prevents false confidence from backups that miss important systems or cannot actually be restored. It also addresses risks such as ransomware, SaaS deletions, and lost developer-machine data.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the it-operations plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define backup coverage, retention rules, protected copies, restore tests, and recovery procedures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cbrock84/headcount/backup-and-recovery
About the project

headcount is an organization of independently installable Claude Code plugins, each grouping skills for a department such as finance, security, or demand generation. Claude Code users install the departments they need and invoke their skills for specialized work; the catalogue entries are skills and related agent tooling from that organization.

cbrock84/headcount · 1,335 stars · on GitHub · cbrock84.github.io

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.

Any agent
npx skills add cbrock84/headcount --skill backup-and-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cbrock84/headcount

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install it-operations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 734 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00734
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00367
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00147
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00073

Measured 6d ago against content hash 969c775a1de8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backup-and-recovery 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 6d 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.

plugins/it-operations/skills/backup-and-recovery/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backup and recovery

Nobody wants backups; they want restores. The distinction is not pedantic — organizations discover the difference during the only event that matters.

Recovery objectives and which processes must survive are set by operations:business-continuity-and-resilience. This skill delivers against them.

Coverage is where it fails first

Most backup gaps are things nobody thought to include: a database somebody stood up outside the standard process, configuration that only exists in a running system, data in a SaaS platform assumed to be the vendor's responsibility, or a developer's machine holding the only copy of something.

Reconcile backup coverage against the asset register from it-operations:it-asset-management on a cadence and treat the difference as a finding. An untested assumption of coverage is the normal state of affairs.

Note that SaaS providers protect against their failures, not against your deletion or a malicious insider. Read what the contract actually commits to, rather than what the marketing implies.

The 3-2-1 shape, and why the offline copy matters

Three copies, two media or platforms, one off-site — and, since ransomware, one immutable or offline.

Modern ransomware deliberately targets backups first, using the credentials it found on the way in. A backup system reachable with production credentials will be encrypted alongside production. Immutable storage or genuinely offline copies are what survive this, and it is the difference between an outage and an extinction event.

Retention is a policy decision, not a storage one

Retention has to satisfy operational recovery, legal and regulatory obligations, and data protection requirements — which pull in opposite directions. Data protection law obliges deletion of personal data you no longer have a basis to keep, and indefinite backup retention conflicts with that directly. Settle it with legal-risk:privacy-and-data-protection.

Know how you would satisfy a deletion request that touches backups, before one arrives.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 74 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 969c775a1de8

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backup-and-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository cbrock84/headcount (1,335 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 734 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-09-03.

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