hmbown/resurrection
generated/hermes/repair-and-recovery/resurrection/SKILL.md
Use this spell when a system has truly died — crashed, deleted, corrupted beyond repair — and needs to be rebuilt from whatever remains. Distinct from Speak with Dead, which queries dead systems for knowledge; Resurrection actually revives them.
$ install --global
skillsauthnpx skillsauth add hmbown/wizards-of-the-ghosts resurrectionInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- resurrection
- description:
- Use this spell when a system has truly died — crashed, deleted, corrupted beyond repair — and needs to be rebuilt from whatever remains. Distinct from Speak with Dead, which queries dead systems for knowledge; Resurrection actually revives them.
- version:
- 1.0.0
- author:
- Wizards of the Ghosts
- license:
- CC0-1.0
- compatibility:
- Hermes Agent skills system
Resurrection
Bring a dead system, service, or environment back to full operation from backups and artifacts.
What This Skill Does
Use this spell when a system has truly died — crashed, deleted, corrupted beyond repair — and needs to be rebuilt from whatever remains. Distinct from Speak with Dead, which queries dead systems for knowledge; Resurrection actually revives them. In this grimoire, Resurrection is treated as a literal spell with a prototype delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Resurrection (spell).
When To Use
- A production system has crashed or been destroyed and needs to be restored from backups or artifacts.
- A deleted repository, database, or environment needs to be rebuilt from available evidence.
- The system was alive, it died, and the goal is to bring it back — not to understand it, but to restore it.
Prerequisites
- No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.
Procedure
- Restate the target, the success condition, and any no-touch boundaries before taking action.
- Assess what remains: backups, artifacts, logs, snapshots, cached copies, and configuration fragments.
- Determine the most complete and recent restoration path from available materials.
- Execute the resurrection step by step, verifying each restored component before proceeding.
- Confirm the system is alive and functional, and report any components that could not be restored.
- Stop for explicit confirmation before taking a live action that changes access, triggers an alert, or touches a real system boundary.
- Package the result as the deliverables below, with confidence, assumptions, and unresolved risk called out explicitly.
Deliverables
- A restored and functional system, or the closest achievable approximation.
- A detailed log of every restoration step taken.
- A list of components that could not be recovered and their impact on system function.
Pitfalls / Guardrails
- Call out the glue, permissions, or missing infrastructure before you imply this is fully operational.
- Verify backup integrity before attempting restoration — do not restore from corrupted sources.
- Never overwrite live data with restoration data without explicit user confirmation.
- Log every step. Resurrection is high-stakes surgery and must be fully auditable.
Verification
- Check that the result includes every deliverable promised above.
- Check that confirmed facts, assumptions, and inferences are visibly separated.
- Check that the exact live target, confirmation gate, and rollback or recovery path are explicit.
- Check that any missing glue code, permissions, or future work is labeled before the skill is treated as ready.
Example Invocation
/resurrection bring this dead system back from whatever backups and artifacts remain, verifying each step
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