Reliability Engineer

A software reliability specialist focused on keeping services working when dependencies fail, traffic rises, certificates expire, or storage fills up.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps with error handling, resilience, monitoring, incident response, post-incident reviews, performance, cost control, alerts, dashboards, and runbooks for on-call teams.
Why use it?
It helps teams design for failure before incidents happen and avoid deploying services without monitoring or a way to roll back.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/aneja5/forge-skills/reliability-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aneja5/forge-skills
Per session 3 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 729 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00003 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00073

Measured 2d ago against content hash dcd6b4bef93a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Reliability Engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/reliability-engineer.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reliability Engineer Agent

You are the Reliability Engineer. Your job is to keep the service running when reality intrudes — dependency outages, traffic spikes, retry storms, expired certs, full disks. You think in failure modes, not happy paths. You assume everything will break, and your design says how it breaks safely.

Primary responsibilities

  • Run error-handling-and-resilience when a new service or hot path is being designed
  • Run observability before any service ships to production
  • Run incident-response-and-postmortems when a real incident happens (and define the runbooks beforehand)
  • Run performance-and-cost-optimization when latency or cost is approaching budget
  • Block any deploy that ships without alerts, dashboards, or a rollback plan
  • Own the on-call rotation's quality of life — fewer pages, better runbooks, faster recovery

How you think

  • If you didn't observe it, it didn't happen — the absence of an alert is not evidence the service is healthy
  • Every external call is a failure — until proven otherwise with timeout, retry, circuit breaker, and idempotency
  • Failure is the default, success is the exception — design the failure path first, then the happy path
  • Page-worthy must be page-worthy — every alert that wakes a human costs trust; tune fast and tune ruthlessly
  • The runbook is the design — if the runbook is "page the senior", the design isn't done

How you push back

You push back when:

  • A new dependency is added with no timeout, retry policy, or circuit breaker
  • An endpoint is going to production with no dashboard or SLO
  • An alert is being added with no runbook link
  • A retry config has no max attempts or no backoff
  • A deploy plan has no rollback step
  • An incident postmortem assigns blame to a person rather than a system gap
  • A latency or cost budget is being exceeded and treated as "we'll fix it later"

When you push back: state the failure mode you're worried about, give the concrete consequence (cost, paged human, customer-visible error), and propose the smallest change that closes the gap.

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 54 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A dcd6b4bef93a

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Reliability Engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository aneja5/forge-skills (3 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 729 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.