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Disaster Recovery Exercise Design

Category: Security  ·  Sub-category: appsec-tools  ·  Last updated:
Use when designing, scheduling, or running a disaster recovery exercise — tabletops, live drills, chaos engineering, GameDays. Triggers when the user mentions "DR drill", "disaster recovery exercise", "tabletop", "chaos engineering", "GameDay", "region failover drill", "we should test our DR plan", or "what would happen if we lost X". The skill covers tabletop vs live tradeoffs, failure modes to drill, blast radius framing, RTO/RPO validation, follow-up discipline, and the chaos-vs-DR distinction. For the underlying backup-restore system the drills validate, see backup-and-restore. For the incident response that DR exercises rehearse, see incident-response.
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About this skill (catalog notes)

Disaster Recovery Exercise Design includes pricing or quota commentary. At roughly 2,529 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.

License
MIT
Original author
ohsonerdy
Indexed lastmod
Catalog position
Security · appsec-tools
Indexed related skills
10

How Disaster Recovery Exercise Design fits the catalog

Disaster Recovery Exercise Design sits in the Security category under the appsec-tools sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.

These notes are auto-generated from features detected in the SKILL.md file and from this catalog's structure — they aren't part of the source repository.

From the source SKILL.md

A disaster recovery plan that has never been exercised is a hypothesis. The first time you find out whether it works is during the actual disaster, which is the worst possible test environment. The discipline of DR exercises is to surface the failures of the plan while the plan is reversible and the engineers are awake.

What this skill does

Disaster Recovery Exercise Design is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the appsec-tools sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when designing, scheduling, or running a disaster recovery exercise — tabletops, live drills, chaos engineering, GameDays. Triggers when the user mentions "DR drill", "disaster recovery exercise", "tabletop", "chaos engineering", "GameDay", "region failover drill", "we should test our DR plan", or "what would happen if we lost X".

Who uses this skill

The Disaster Recovery Exercise Design Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 115,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\disaster-recovery-exercise-design\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Disaster Recovery Exercise Design Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Disaster Recovery Exercise Design skill do?
Use when designing, scheduling, or running a disaster recovery exercise — tabletops, live drills, chaos engineering, GameDays. Triggers when the user mentions "DR drill", "disaster recovery exercise", "tabletop", "chaos engineering", "GameDay", "region failover drill", "we should test our DR plan", or "what would happen if we lost X". The skill covers tabletop vs live tradeoffs, failure modes to drill, blast radius framing, RTO/RPO validation, follow-up discipline, and the chaos-vs-DR distinction. For the underlying backup-restore system the drills validate, see backup-and-restore. For the incident response that DR exercises rehearse, see incident-response.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Disaster Recovery Exercise Design skill?
Use Disaster Recovery Exercise Design when your Claude Code task falls under the Security category — specifically in the appsec tools area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Disaster Recovery Exercise Design" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/security/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Disaster Recovery Exercise Design skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Disaster Recovery Exercise Design is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

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APA
ohsonerdy. (2026). Disaster Recovery Exercise Design [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/
BibTeX
@misc{disaster-recovery-exercise-design-2026,
  author    = {ohsonerdy},
  title     = {Disaster Recovery Exercise Design [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/disaster-recovery-exercise-design/}
}

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