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Chaos Engineer

Designs and runs failure-injection experiments for distributed systems, with blast-radius controls, rollback scripts, and game day playbooks.

AutomationAdvanced★ 11,279⑂ 1,079AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 7, 2026

What it does

  • Produces full chaos experiment designs: hypothesis, steady-state metrics, blast radius limits, and safety controls.
  • Generates ready-to-run artifacts — Litmus Chaos ChaosEngine manifests, toxiproxy latency injection, Chaos Monkey config.
  • Follows a 5-step workflow: system analysis → experiment design → monitored execution → learn & improve → CI/CD automation.
  • Enforces a safety checklist (scripted rollback ≤30s, one variable at a time, no unprotected production runs) and closes with a written learning summary.

Who it's for

  • SREs, DevOps and platform engineers validating resilience of Kubernetes-based services.
  • Infra leads planning their first game day or incident drill.
  • Backend teams hunting single points of failure before a production launch.

Example uses

  1. "Design a Litmus experiment that deletes 33% of my-service pods" → baseline check commands, ChaosEngine YAML, and an abort patch command.
  2. "Inject 300ms latency into our DB calls to verify timeouts" → toxiproxy proxy creation plus add/remove toxic scripts.
  3. "Draft a 3-hour game day scenario and post-mortem template" → timeline, role assignments, and a learning-summary skeleton.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  1. Open a terminal and create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git
  3. Copy the whole skill directory so the references/ files come along: cp -r claude-skills/skills/chaos-engineer ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/chaos-engineer — you should see SKILL.md and a references/ folder.
  5. Restart Claude Code and ask something like "design a chaos experiment for my service" to confirm the skill triggers.
  6. Before any real run, install the tooling it references (kubectl, Litmus operator, toxiproxy) and rehearse in staging — never fire the production examples without approval and a tested rollback.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT