Continuity Plan

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name: continuity-plan
description: Create a continuity plan for a critical business service covering activation criteria, roles, communications, alternate workflows, minimum resources, supplier dependencies, technology recovery interfaces, and return to normal.
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# Continuity Plan

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 BIA, operating procedures, staffing, vendor contacts, systems/DR plans, facilities, and communications channels. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
3. Start from BIA, define continuity objective, identify manual/alternate modes, assign authority and contact paths, integrate DR/reliability plans, and document restoration reconciliation.
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
The service can operate at the approved minimum level during disruption and reconcile safely when normal systems return.