Greater Restoration

Undo deep corruption and restore a system degraded by accumulated damage.

What This Skill Does

Lesser Restoration = one thing is wrong, fix it directly (reset a flag, clear a cache, remove a curse). Greater Restoration = many things are wrong because they decayed together over time, and fixing one thing without fixing the others will fail. In this grimoire, Greater Restoration is treated as a metaphorical spell with a shipping-now delivery profile. Canonical reference input: Greater Restoration (spell).

When To Use

• Activate Greater Restoration when the user describes systemic degradation that accumulated over time and requires a comprehensive, multi-step restoration plan — not a hotfix.
• Time + decay: "over N months/years", "accumulated", "gradually degraded", "drift", "bloat", "sprawl"
• Multiplicity: multiple related problems listed (inconsistent configs, orphaned resources, stale artifacts)
• Scope words: "comprehensive", "systematic", "full audit", "restore to health", "clean and restore"
• Failure of incremental fixes: "no single fix will work", "triage is insufficient", "band-aids made it worse"
• Domains: schema drift, tech debt, IaC drift, alert fatigue, bloated images, tangled dependencies, stale flags, decayed docs, corrupted data pipelines

Prerequisites

• No extra runtime dependencies beyond Hermes Agent and the normal toolset for this session.