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Chaos Engineer

Designs safe, hypothesis-driven chaos experiments, failure-injection code and game day exercises for distributed systems.

AutomationAdvanced★ 11,827⑂ 1,138AI score 9/10Last updated: Oct 3, 2026

What it does

  • Maps architecture, dependencies and failure modes, then produces a hypothesis-based experiment design doc (steady state, metrics, blast radius).
  • Generates failure-injection code and manifests for Litmus Chaos, Chaos Monkey, toxiproxy, Gremlin and Pumba.
  • Enforces a safety checklist on every experiment: verified baseline, smallest blast radius first, scripted rollback in ≤30 seconds, one variable at a time, no unguarded production runs.
  • Delivers game day plans, monitoring/alert setup, rollback runbooks and a learning summary with tracked improvements.
  • Loads deeper references/ guides on demand (experiment design, infrastructure chaos, Kubernetes chaos, tooling, game days).

Who it's for

  • SREs, DevOps and platform engineers measuring real resilience
  • Teams running Kubernetes microservices that need failure validation
  • Leads planning quarterly game days or incident drills
  • Engineers wiring continuous chaos testing into CI/CD

Example uses

  1. "Design a Litmus pod-delete experiment for my-service in production, cap impact at 33% of replicas, and include the abort path."
  2. "Build a toxiproxy scenario that adds 300ms latency with jitter between the API and the database, plus the metrics to watch."
  3. "Write a game day runbook for an availability-zone outage: roles, timeline, stop conditions and a post-mortem template."

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/skills/chaos-engineer ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/Jeffallan/claude-skills.git /tmp/claude-skills
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r /tmp/claude-skills/skills/chaos-engineer ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify with ls ~/.claude/skills/chaos-engineer — you should see SKILL.md and the references/ folder.
  6. Restart Claude Code, then invoke it with something like "design a chaos experiment for service X".
  7. Prerequisites for hands-on runs: kubectl access, Litmus Chaos installed in the cluster, optionally brew install toxiproxy. Always rehearse in staging before touching production.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT