salvageprimitives

Salvageprimitives are a conceptual set of low-level operations used in salvage workflows to reclaim resources after failure, damage, or obsolescence. They are designed to be small, composable, and side-effect limited to support safe recovery and reusability across systems.

Although not a standardized term, salvageprimitives appear in discussions of fault-tolerant architectures, disaster recovery planning, and digital forensics. They provide a framework for building salvage pipelines that can operate under partial failure and with uncertain inputs.

Core characteristics include idempotence, determinism, safety, and composability. Primitives are intended to be independent building blocks that can be combined to form higher-level salvage strategies without compromising system integrity. They emphasize predictable behavior, clear boundaries, and traceable outcomes to facilitate auditing and recovery.

Typical primitive categories include retrieval and acquisition (collect data or resources from damaged sources), validation and integrity checks (confirm usability and detect corruption), transformation and restoration (convert or repair formats and states), preservation of provenance and metadata (record the context and history), release or quarantine (decide what can be salvaged and what should be isolated), and auditing (log decisions and results for accountability).

Applications span data recovery, disaster response logistics, manufacturing and refurbishment, digital forensics, and game design where salvage mechanics rely on deterministic primitives. Implementation is often through APIs or small modules within a salvage framework, with emphasis on idempotent operations, explicit error handling, and traceable state.

See also: salvage, fault tolerance, data recovery, resilience, forensics.