Continuity Exercise

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name: continuity-exercise
description: Run tabletop or functional continuity exercises against realistic scenarios to test activation, decision rights, communications, manual workarounds, dependencies, and return-to-normal behavior.
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# Continuity Exercise

Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.

## Procedure
1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. Establish the evidence baseline using continuity plans, scenario risk, participant roles, communications, backup procedures, and observers. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Define objectives and injects, select participants, preserve scenario realism, record decisions/timing/gaps, test escalation and alternate channels, and assign remediations.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.

## Quality gate
Exercise findings identify specific plan/control gaps and remediation is retested rather than filed away.