> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Recovery Overview

Guardian recovery is an add-on flow around wallet creation.

## Use recovery when

* the wallet should support a guardian-triggered authority change
* you want a delay before the recovered authority takes effect
* you want the hosted SDK to prepare both setup and runtime recovery actions

## The recovery lifecycle

The SDK breaks recovery into three stages:

* create a recovery-enabled wallet
* prepare and submit recovery setup
* later start, cancel, or execute a recovery

If the policy is not recovery-enabled, treat the result as a normal wallet
create flow and expect `recoverySetup` to be absent.

## Main SDK entrypoints

* `swig.wallets.create(...)`
* `wallet.recovery.prepareSetup(...)`
* `wallet.recovery.start(...)`
* `wallet.recovery.cancel(...)`
* `wallet.recovery.execute(...)`

## Read next

* Use [Set Up Recovery](/developer-sdk/recovery-setup) for the wallet creation
  and setup sequence
* Use [Add a Guardian After Wallet Creation](/developer-sdk/add-guardian-after-creation)
  when the wallet already exists
* Use [Run Recovery](/developer-sdk/recovery-runtime) for start, cancel, and
  execute