Restore-Test Verification

Restore-Test Verification is a skill for Claude Code from WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,800 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

Guidance for judging whether backups are actually recoverable, using evidence such as a completed restore, a successful system boot, or a small restore test.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for assessing restore-test evidence, checking whether tests happen often enough for the importance of the data, and finding systems with no proof of recovery.
Why use it?
It exposes the difference between having backup files and knowing they can be used after data loss, corruption, or a disaster.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the backup-pack plugin — 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit It is for assessing restore-test evidence, checking whether tests happen often enough for the importance of the data, and finding systems with no proof of recovery.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyre-ai/msp-claude-plugins/restore-test-verification
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 WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins --skill restore-test-verification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install backup-pack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 3 commands, 3 agents.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,800 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 $0.00077 $0.01800
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00900
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00360
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00180

Measured 6d ago against content hash 454eef1c97d1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Restore-Test Verification 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.

msp-claude-plugins/backup-pack/skills/restore-test-verification/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Restore-Test Verification

Overview

A backup job reporting "success" proves that data was copied somewhere. It proves nothing about whether that data can be turned back into a working system or a usable file when someone actually needs it. Corruption, encryption-key problems, application- consistency failures, and format incompatibilities routinely surface only at restore time — never during the backup run itself. The gap between "backed up" and "recoverable" is where most DR failures actually happen, and it is invisible from a job-success dashboard. This skill exists to make that gap visible: tracking what restore-test evidence actually exists per protected system, and flagging where it doesn't.

This skill assumes backup jobs are already running (see backup-job-health for that layer) and asks the next question: if this needed to be restored today, is there any evidence it actually could be?

Anti-triggers

  • Fetching a screenshot or boot-verification record — the screenshot, activity, and asset endpoints are the appliance's own API surface; use datto-bcdr-api-patterns. This skill weighs what that evidence proves and flags where none exists.
  • Answering "are backups tested?" on an insurance or audit form — the evidence-labelling discipline for that context lives in insurance-questionnaires (compliance-pack), which draws on this skill's finding rather than reproducing it.

Key Concepts

"Exists" vs. "recoverable" evidence, ranked

Not all restore evidence is equally strong. From strongest to weakest:

  1. Actual restore performed — a real recovery event (production failover, file recovery request, or a deliberate DR drill) where the data was genuinely restored and validated. Strongest possible evidence; also the rarest.
  2. Full boot/virtualization verification — the protected system was virtualized from its backup image and confirmed to boot and respond (some BCDR appliances, e.g. Datto BCDR, run this automatically). Strong evidence for image-based appliance backups — it proves the image is bootable, though it doesn't fully validate application-level data integrity inside the guest.
  3. Screenshot verification — an automated screenshot of the virtualized boot screen, confirming the OS reached a login prompt or desktop rather than a boot error. Weaker than full boot verification but far stronger than nothing — it's the closest-to-continuous proxy most appliance vendors offer. Treat a "successful backup" with a failed screenshot verification as a recovery risk, not a pass — see backup-job-health for the point that both signals must be checked together.
  4. Spot-check restore drill — a manual, periodic restore of a sample file, mailbox, or object to confirm data integrity, without a full system failover. This is the primary evidence type available for SaaS-data snapshot backups (Datto SaaS Protection, Spanning), which generally don't offer a "boot" concept at all — a spot-check restore of a mailbox or SharePoint file is the equivalent verification action.
  5. No test evidence at all — a backup with a clean job-success history and no restore, boot-verification, screenshot, or spot-check record of any kind. Treat this explicitly as untested, not merely "unverified" — it should be reported as a finding in its own right, not omitted because nothing failed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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 · 157 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 454eef1c97d1

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Restore-Test Verification is a skill published in the GitHub repository WYRE-AI/msp-claude-plugins (45 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,800 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-04.