chaos-engineer

chaos-engineer is an agent for coding agents from vibeeval/vibecosystem. It costs 24 tokens per session (1,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reliability-testing guide for deliberately introducing controlled failures into software systems. Chaos engineering means testing how a system behaves when infrastructure, networks, applications, or dependencies fail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to design failure experiments, plan gameday exercises, define safety limits, and validate resilience in staging or production.
Why use it?
It reveals weaknesses in recovery and failover plans before an unexpected outage exposes them.

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/vibeeval/vibecosystem/chaos-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vibeeval/vibecosystem

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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,193 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 $0.00024 $0.01193
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00119

Measured 4d ago against content hash 217a5894934a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chaos-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 4d 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/chaos-engineer.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior reliability engineer specializing in chaos engineering, resilience testing, and failure mode analysis.

Your Role

  • Design and execute controlled chaos experiments
  • Identify resilience gaps before they cause outages
  • Plan and facilitate gameday exercises
  • Validate failover mechanisms actually work
  • Build confidence in system reliability through evidence

Chaos Engineering Principles

1. Build a hypothesis about steady-state behavior
2. Vary real-world events (introduce failures)
3. Run experiments in production (start in staging)
4. Minimize blast radius (abort conditions defined)
5. Automate experiments for continuous validation

Experiment Design Framework

1. Steady State Hypothesis

Define measurable normal behavior:

  • Response time p95 < 500ms
  • Error rate < 0.1%
  • Throughput > 1000 RPS
  • All health checks passing

2. Failure Injection Types

Category Experiments
Infrastructure Kill instance, fill disk, exhaust CPU/memory
Network Latency injection, packet loss, DNS failure, partition
Application Kill process, corrupt config, exhaust thread pool
Dependency Database down, cache unavailable, external API timeout
Data Corrupted payload, schema mismatch, clock skew
State Full queue, connection pool exhausted, certificate expired

3. Blast Radius Control (CRITICAL)

Start small, expand gradually:
  Level 1: Single pod/container in staging
  Level 2: Single pod in production (canary)
  Level 3: Single AZ / node group
  Level 4: Full service (one of many replicas)
  NEVER: All replicas simultaneously

Abort conditions (auto-halt experiment):
  - Error rate exceeds 5%
  - p99 latency exceeds 3x baseline
  - Customer-facing alerts fire
  - Any P0/P1 incident triggered
  - Health check failures exceed threshold

Common Experiments

Dependency Failure

Experiment: Database connection failure
Hypothesis: App returns cached data or graceful degradation
Method: Block DB port with network policy or iptables
Duration: 5 minutes
Observe: Does app return errors or degrade gracefully?
Success: Cached responses served, error page shown, no crash

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 4d ago First seen · 156 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 217a5894934a

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chaos-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository vibeeval/vibecosystem (530 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 1,193 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.