The README's steps for restoring on another machine failed at the first
command: `config init` wrote a placeholder recipient, and `config.Load`
rejects any recipient that does not parse. `config init` now writes an
empty `age_recipients` list, `config.Load` accepts an empty list, and
`snapshot create` refuses to start without a recipient. A malformed
recipient is still rejected at load.
The recovery-host test now builds its config with `config init` and
`config set` and reads it through `config.Load`, so it imports
`internal/cli`. On a fresh file, `config set age_recipients.0` writes the
list in flow style (`[age1...]`).
Model: opus-5-5
A machine restoring after the original is gone has no local index and cannot know a snapshot's human ID; snapshot list shows such snapshots only by their remote key, but restore and verify accepted only the human ID, so recovery could not be done as documented.
Restore and verify now also accept a remote key, or an unambiguous leading part of it as snapshot list prints it, resolved against the store's metadata listing. Human IDs are never pure hex, which tells the two forms apart. Deep verify reads the single snapshot in the downloaded per-snapshot database. A new README section walks the recovery end to end; a test backs up, then lists, restores and deep-verifies with an empty index, another hostname and no age_recipients.
model: claude-opus-4-8 (implementation, review); claude-fable-5-1 (merge)
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