Chaos Engineer
Designs chaos experiments, creates failure injection frameworks, and facilitates game...
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npx skills add Jeffallan/claude-skills --skill chaos-engineer -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- Jeffallan/claude-skills12.2k
- Category
- Design
- Updated
- 5d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 1,517 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Designs chaos experiments, creates failure injection frameworks, and facilitates game day exercises for distributed systems, producing runbooks, experiment manifests, rollback procedures, and post-mortem templates. Use when designing chaos experiments, implementing failure injection frameworks, or conducting game day exercises. Invoke for chaos experiments, resilience testing, blast radius control, game days, antifragile systems, fault injection, Chaos Monkey, Litmus Chaos.
Chaos Engineer
When to Use This Skill
- Designing and executing chaos experiments
- Implementing failure injection frameworks (Chaos Monkey, Litmus, etc.)
- Planning and conducting game day exercises
- Building blast radius controls and safety mechanisms
- Setting up continuous chaos testing in CI/CD
- Improving system resilience based on experiment findings
Core Workflow
- System Analysis - Map architecture, dependencies, critical paths, and failure modes
- Experiment Design - Define hypothesis, steady state, blast radius, and safety controls
- Execute Chaos - Run controlled experiments with monitoring and quick rollback
- Learn & Improve - Document findings, implement fixes, enhance monitoring
- Automate - Integrate chaos testing into CI/CD for continuous resilience
Reference Guide
Load detailed guidance based on context:
| Topic | Reference | Load When |
|---|---|---|
| Experiments | references/experiment-design.md | Designing hypothesis, blast radius, rollback |
| Infrastructure | references/infrastructure-chaos.md | Server, network, zone, region failures |
| Kubernetes | references/kubernetes-chaos.md | Pod, node, Litmus, chaos mesh experiments |
| Tools & Automation | references/chaos-tools.md | Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, Pumba, CI/CD integration |
| Game Days | references/game-days.md | Planning, executing, learning from game days |
Safety Checklist
Non-obvious constraints that must be enforced on every experiment:
