Archive

The Archive feature in ReSim enables soft deletion of artifacts such as Experiences and Test Suites, allowing users to manage their workspace without permanently losing data. Archiving helps reduce clutter and enforce data hygiene, especially as autonomy development scales, while preserving traceability and compatibility metadata.

Archiving is non-destructive — the data remains available for inspection and can be restored at any time. However, archived items are excluded from default workflows and cannot be used in most UI-based actions.

Test results (Batch/Test details, Reports, etc) will continue to reflect their association with any archived entity. However these entities will no longer appear in experience lists in either the CLI or web UI and cannot be selected in the UI for running tests. They can still be invoked directly for experimentation or validation through the CLI.

Archived test suites and experiences retain their associated System compatibility.

Archiving Experiences

Archiving an Experience removes it from active use and visibility in the ReSim platform’s UI and default CLI queries. Upon archiving, the experience is automatically removed from all Test Suites it belongs to and results in a new version of the test suite. Restoration does not re-add it to these test suites — this must be done manually. Since active experiences must have unique names, restoring an archived experience with a duplicate name will result in a numeric suffix being added to the restored experience (e.g. Experience Name (1)).

Archiving Test Suites

Archiving a Test Suite disables its use in future workflows but retains all historical versions and associations. If a Test Suite is linked to an Executive Dashboard on the Overview tab, the UI prevents archiving.