# Recovery

> Use Recovery when the system, team, or process has lost capacity — degraded performance, accumulated errors, technical debt fatigue — and needs direct restorative attention before it can operate effectively.

- Skill: `hmbown/recovery` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add hmbown/recovery`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/hmbown/recovery/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: Hmbown (https://skillmd.com/u/hmbown)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/hmbown/recovery

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# Recovery

Restore operating capacity so the system can fight again.

## Overview

Use Recovery when the system, team, or process has lost capacity — degraded performance, accumulated errors, technical debt fatigue — and needs direct restorative attention before it can operate effectively.

This is the secondary Codex compatibility rendering of a literal battle-chip pattern with a shipping-now execution model.

Canonical chip family: Recovery
Codex shelf: Defense and Recovery
Provider target: Codex compatibility surface.

## When To Use

- A system or team is running at reduced capacity and needs to regain working strength.
- Accumulated damage (technical debt, error backlog, degraded metrics) is the bottleneck, not broken infrastructure.
- The next move requires full operating capacity that you currently do not have.

## Workflow

1. Assess what capacity has been lost and what restoration would look like.
2. Apply the lightest effective restorative action — pay down debt, clear the backlog, restore the baseline.
3. Confirm capacity has returned to a usable level before resuming normal tempo.

## Deliverables

- A restorative action that returns a system, process, or team to functional operating capacity.
- A short note on what was recovered and what the new baseline looks like.

## Guardrails

- Recovery restores capacity; it does not fix what broke it. If the damage source is still active, triage that separately.
- Do not mistake repeated Recovery for a sustainable strategy. If you are healing constantly, something upstream still needs Repair.
- Recovery is not free — every heal costs a turn. Use it when the restoration is worth the tempo loss.

## Default Invocation

Use Recovery to restore lost operating capacity — pay down the debt, clear the backlog, or rebuild the baseline — so the system can operate at full strength again.