Agent skill

Factory Recover

by BuilderIO in BuilderIO/skills

Experimental workflow for finding and resuming interrupted coding runs.

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Install Factory Recover

skills CLI
$ npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill factory-recover -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install BuilderIO/skills factory-recover --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BuilderIO/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/factory-recover .claude/skills/factory-recover && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
factory-recover
GitHub stars
4.5k
Token cost
~422 tokens
SKILL.md length
190 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
25
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Experimental workflow for finding and resuming interrupted coding runs.

  • Works in 5 steps: Find runs the host identifies as… → Skip work that is active, cancelled,… → Confirm the worktree still belongs to… → …
  • SKILL.md covers Check a candidate run and Report
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Factory Recover is an agent skill from BuilderIO/skills. Experimental workflow for finding and resuming interrupted coding runs. Use after an agent host restart or an interrupted automation.

Its SKILL.md is about 420 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/factory-recover”

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Find runs the host identifies as interrupted or incomplete. Read the
  2. Skip work that is active, cancelled, intentionally paused, blocked on a
  3. Confirm the worktree still belongs to that run. Inspect its branch, status,
  4. Recheck external state before retrying an uncertain action. Resume only with
  5. If authorization no longer covers the next step, leave the run stopped and

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit da158ca. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Factory Recover loads about 422 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 37 tokens; SKILL.md has 190 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~37
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~422

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from BuilderIO/skills at commit da158ca, republished under its MIT licence (© BuilderIO). 190 words, ~422 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/factory-recover/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
factory-recover
description
Experimental workflow for finding and resuming interrupted coding runs. Use after an agent host restart or an interrupted automation.
installer-group
factory

Factory Recover

Start with the Factory guide for workflow setup and configuration.

Read .agent-factory/config.yaml, the optional skill_prompts.factory-recover entry, and the Factory configuration reference. Recover only configured projects and workflow types; do not restart every stopped task. The prompt cannot restore canceled work or grant new authorization.

Check a candidate run

  1. Find runs the host identifies as interrupted or incomplete. Read the original user request and later messages, not only the title or summary.
  2. Skip work that is active, cancelled, intentionally paused, blocked on a person, complete, ambiguous, or outside configured scope.
  3. Confirm the worktree still belongs to that run. Inspect its branch, status, and unpublished changes. Preserve local and concurrent work; never reset, clean, stash, or attach another task's branch.
  4. Recheck external state before retrying an uncertain action. Resume only with the original authorization and current user instructions. Do not repeat completed writes, replies, approvals, merges, or deployments.
  5. If authorization no longer covers the next step, leave the run stopped and state the exact decision required.

Report

List runs resumed, skipped, or held and the evidence for each decision. Follow the separate configured notification policy.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/factory-recover of BuilderIO/skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit da158ca

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Find Releaseflutter/flutter179k—~545Automated safety check: PassBSD-3-Clause

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Questions about Factory Recover

What does Factory Recover do?

Experimental workflow for finding and resuming interrupted coding runs. Factory Recover is an agent skill from BuilderIO/skills. Experimental workflow for finding and resuming interrupted coding runs.

How do I install Factory Recover in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill factory-recover -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/factory-recover in BuilderIO/skills) into .claude/skills/factory-recover in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Factory Recover in Codex?

Run `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill factory-recover -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/factory-recover in BuilderIO/skills) into .agents/skills/factory-recover in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Factory Recover in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add BuilderIO/skills --skill factory-recover -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/factory-recover, .gemini/skills/factory-recover, .github/skills/factory-recover and .opencode/skills/factory-recover in your project.

What does Factory Recover need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Factory Recover is instructions for the agent only.

Does Factory Recover access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Factory Recover safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Factory Recover use?

Factory Recover is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Factory Recover use?

About 422 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Factory Recover?

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Who maintains Factory Recover?

BuilderIO (a GitHub organization) maintains it in BuilderIO/skills, which has 4,541 GitHub stars. The repository holds 25 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: BuilderIO/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.