> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Recovery Kit

> What the kit contains, which parts are secret, and when to download it again

The Recovery Kit is a file you download from Trustodian that describes **your whole account**: every
vault you own and every single-signature wallet you hold.

It contains no keys and no phrase. Nothing in it can move money on its own, and losing it does not
lose funds — except for Bitcoin and Cardano vaults, whose configuration exists nowhere else.

## Getting it

Open any vault in Trustodian, choose **Download recovery kit**, then **Download recovery kit — every
vault**. You get a JSON file and, optionally, a printable version with the same content laid out one
vault per page.

For a Bitcoin or Cardano vault you can also export just that vault's descriptor or script files, in
the format the external wallet expects.

> [!NOTE]
>
> The kit describes the account as it stood when you pressed the button. See [When to download it
> again](#when-to-download-it-again).

## What is inside

> **Vaults — every network**
>
> One entry per vault, on all six networks, with its address, threshold and owners.
>
> For **Bitcoin and Cardano** the entry also carries the script material that turns those owners into
> the vault address. That material is on no blockchain and is the reason the kit exists.
>
> For **EVM, Solana, Tron and XRP** the entry records where to point a tool, not material to rebuild
> from. See [How vaults recover](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/vaults.md).

> **Single-signature wallets**
>
> Every wallet you hold, with its address, network, derivation path, and — in the column marked
> **Recovered by** — whether your recovery phrase reproduces it.
>
> These wallets are not backed up by the kit. They come back from the phrase. The list exists so that
> after a restore you can tell which wallets *should* have reappeared. See
> [Wallets the phrase does not cover](#wallets-the-phrase-does-not-cover).

> **Vaults that could not be exported**
>
> If a vault could not be read, it is named in the kit rather than silently omitted, with the reason
> and whether downloading again would help.
>
> A vault created before external recovery was supported is a permanent refusal: it still works in
> Trustodian, but nothing in the kit recovers it and a fresh download will not add it.

## Wallets the phrase does not cover

The wallet list is the only place that tells you a wallet will not survive a restore. A wallet you
imported by private key is marked **NOT your recovery phrase** — see [What the phrase does not
cover](https://trustodian-recovery.mintlify.site/before-you-begin.md#what-the-phrase-does-not-cover) for why.

> [!WARNING]
>
> Restoring your phrase in a third-party wallet rebuilds every other wallet and leaves these behind,
> with no error and no hint that they are missing. Recover each one from wherever its key came from,
> or move its funds to a wallet the phrase does derive.

> [!NOTE]
>
> If the account's phrase has ever been replaced, each wallet also carries the identifier of the seed
> it came from, so you can tell which of your phrases recovers it.

## How secret is it

> **Not secret, but the only copy**
>
> Vault addresses, owner addresses, thresholds, and the Bitcoin and Cardano script material. None of
> it can move money by itself.
>
> Secrecy is not the risk here — **loss** is. For a Bitcoin or Cardano vault this file holds the only
> copy of what turns your keys into the vault address.

> **Never in the kit**
>
> Your recovery phrase, your passphrase and your private keys are not in the file and never will be.
>
> Anything claiming to be a Recovery Kit that contains a phrase did not come from Trustodian.

So keep more than one copy, and keep them wherever your recovery phrase is **not**. The kit alone
moves nothing, and the phrase alone cannot reach a Bitcoin or Cardano vault — but whoever holds both
has everything.

## When to download it again

**1. After creating a vault**

The kit covers only the vaults that existed when it was made.

**2. After adding a wallet you mean to keep**

So the wallet list still matches reality, and a wallet the phrase cannot reproduce is on it.

**3. If a vault was listed as not exported**

Unless the reason says a fresh download will not help.


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