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This skill automates rollback procedures for migrations by managing state snapshots, generating rollback scripts, and verifying outcomes.

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---
name: rollback-automation-skill
description: Automate rollback procedures with state snapshots, rollback scripts, and verification automation
allowed-tools: ["Bash", "Read", "Write", "Grep", "Glob", "Edit"]
---

# Rollback Automation Skill

Automates rollback procedures for migration activities, managing state snapshots, generating rollback scripts, and automating verification.

## Purpose

Enable safe rollback for:
- State snapshot management
- Rollback script generation
- Database rollback coordination
- Traffic switch rollback
- Verification automation

## Capabilities

### 1. State Snapshot Management
- Create pre-migration snapshots
- Store state checkpoints
- Version snapshots
- Clean up old snapshots

### 2. Rollback Script Generation
- Generate database rollbacks
- Create code rollbacks
- Build config rollbacks
- Document procedures

### 3. Database Rollback Coordination
- Generate reverse migrations
- Handle data rollback
- Manage transactions
- Coordinate sequences

### 4. Traffic Switch Rollback
- Revert routing rules
- Switch DNS
- Update load balancers
- Handle sticky sessions

### 5. Verification Automation
- Test rollback success
- Verify functionality
- Check data integrity
- Validate performance

### 6. Rollback Testing
- Test rollback procedures
- Simulate failures
- Validate timing
- Document results

## Tool Integrations

| Tool | Purpose | Integration Method |
|------|---------|-------------------|
| Database migration tools | Schema rollback | CLI |
| Deployment tools | Code rollback | CLI |
| Feature flags | Feature rollback | API |
| Load balancers | Traffic rollback | API |
| IaC tools | Infrastructure rollback | CLI |

## Output Schema

```json
{
  "rollbackId": "string",
  "timestamp": "ISO8601",
  "snapshot": {
    "id": "string",
    "created": "ISO8601",
    "components": []
  },
  "scripts": {
    "database": "string",
    "application": "string",
    "infrastructure": "string"
  },
  "execution": {
    "status": "ready|executed|verified",
    "duration": "string",
    "verification": {}
  }
}
```

## Integration with Migration Processes

- All migration processes (universal rollback support)

## Related Skills

- `data-migration-validator`: Post-rollback validation

## Related Agents

- `rollback-specialist`: Rollback orchestration
- `cutover-coordinator`: Cutover management

Overview

This skill automates rollback procedures using state snapshots, generated rollback scripts, and automated verification. It provides deterministic, resumable orchestration for safe reversions across database, application, and infrastructure layers. The skill prioritizes repeatability, auditability, and clear execution status tracking.

How this skill works

The skill captures pre-migration state snapshots and versions them for reproducible restores. It generates targeted rollback scripts for database, application, and infrastructure components, coordinates transactional sequence during execution, and automates verification checks to confirm integrity and performance. Execution produces a structured report with rollbackId, timestamps, snapshot metadata, scripts, and verification results.

When to use it

Before schema or data migrations to ensure a safe fallback path
During deployments that modify routing, DNS, or load balancer rules
When changing configuration or feature-flag states that affect runtime behavior
For infrastructure changes managed by IaC where state snapshots are available
When you need deterministic, resumable rollback orchestration and audit trails

Best practices

Create snapshots immediately before risky changes and tag them with migration IDs
Keep rollback scripts idempotent and versioned alongside application code
Automate verification checks for both functionality and data integrity
Limit snapshot retention by policy and store metadata for quick lookup
Run rollback tests in staging to validate timing and side effects

Example use cases

Generate and execute a reverse migration after a failed database deploy, with transaction-safe sequences
Revert traffic by switching DNS and load balancer rules while preserving sticky-session handling
Restore infrastructure state from a snapshot after an IaC change introduces regressions
Produce an auditable JSON report of rollbackId, snapshot, scripts, and verification status for compliance
Simulate rollbacks in CI to validate procedures and measure expected recovery time

FAQ

What components are included in a rollback report?

A report includes rollbackId, timestamps, snapshot metadata, generated scripts for database/application/infrastructure, and execution status with verification results.

How does verification work?

Verification runs automated checks for functionality, data integrity, and basic performance metrics, and records pass/fail outcomes in the execution section.