Auto Recovery

Overview

Auto recovery is not a universal blockchain standard. It can refer to retrying an incomplete withdrawal, resuming address monitoring, rebuilding a service from replicated state, restoring a signing component, or routing a failed workflow into a safe compensating action.

Automation must distinguish temporary failure from a permanent or ambiguous result. Blindly repeating a transfer can create duplicates if the first request succeeded but its response was lost. Recovery actions should use idempotency controls, authoritative transaction checks, bounded retries, and states that require human review when certainty is unavailable.

A well-designed feature defines its trigger, recovery scope, retry schedule, stopping condition, and audit trail. Alerts should show what was recovered and what remains unresolved. Auto recovery improves availability only when it preserves financial correctness and cannot bypass approval, balance, or destination controls.

The scope of Auto Recovery should identify the protected wallet, key, account, service, or business process; the triggering failure; who may declare the incident; which identity and entitlement evidence is required; and the recovery point and recovery time objectives that govern restoration.

Auto Recovery differs from ordinary retry or customer support because it restores authority after a control failure. For example, reinstalling an application is not successful recovery until the correct accounts, networks, balances, policies, and transaction history are reproduced and compromised authority can no longer act.

Evidence for Auto Recovery should preserve incident time, affected identifiers, last known state, claimant and approver checks, backup or share version, actions performed, credentials revoked, assets verified, discrepancies found, and final owner acceptance. For Auto Recovery, sensitive recovery material must not appear in the incident record.