chaos-hypothesis-validation

chaos-hypothesis-validation is a skill for Claude Code from dungnotnull/hybrid-harness-chaos-process-prm. It costs 98 tokens per session (2,918 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for applying the scientific method to chaos engineering, the practice of deliberately introducing failures to test system resilience.

In plain words
What is it for?
It writes hypotheses and validation materials for fault-injection experiments, using baselines, service objectives, system metrics, and limits on the affected area.
Why use it?
It turns vague failure questions into testable statements with measurable conditions for success.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the hybrid-harness-chaos-process plugin — 37 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit It writes hypotheses and validation materials for fault-injection experiments, using baselines, service objectives, system metrics, and limits on the affected area.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dungnotnull/hybrid-harness-chaos-process-prm/s15-hypothesis-validation
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add dungnotnull/hybrid-harness-chaos-process-prm --skill s15-hypothesis-validation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dungnotnull/hybrid-harness-chaos-process-prm

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hybrid-harness-chaos-process, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 98 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,918 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00098 $0.02918
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01459
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00584
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00292

Measured 11d ago against content hash 733c3a9de42f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chaos-hypothesis-validation scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -f http://<SERVICE>.<NAMESPACE>.svc.cluster.local/health && echo "PASS" || echo "FAIL"
skills/s15-hypothesis-validation/SKILL.md · 309 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 309 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chaos Hypothesis Validation

Purpose

Transform vague "what if X breaks?" questions into precise, falsifiable hypotheses with measurable success criteria — making chaos experiments scientifically rigorous rather than random fault injection.


Prerequisites

  • Chaos experiment designs from s14 (Experiment Design)
  • Steady state baselines from s17 (Steady State Definition)
  • Target service metrics identified
  • Observability stack active (Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Performance baselines from s13 (Performance Testing)

Input Contract

Input Source Required
Experiment designs (ChaosEngine YAML) s12 (workflow_context.artifacts) Yes
Steady state baselines s15 output Yes
Service SLIs/SLOs from PRD s01 context Yes
Blast radius constraints s14 output Yes
Observability metrics available s20 output No

Output Contract

Output Destination Format
Hypothesis document per experiment .commandcode/artifacts/hypothesis-<name>.md Markdown
Validation script (Python) .commandcode/artifacts/hypothesis-validator.py Python
Pre-experiment check script .commandcode/artifacts/pre-chaos-check.sh Bash
Hypothesis tracker table s24, s25 (scoring + learning) Markdown table
Acceptance criteria YAML s18 (game day gates) YAML

The Chaos Hypothesis Formula

HYPOTHESIS STATEMENT:
"When [FAULT DESCRIPTION] is applied to [TARGET SCOPE] for [DURATION],
the [SYSTEM/SERVICE] will [EXPECTED BEHAVIOR],
as evidenced by [MEASURABLE METRIC] remaining [CONDITION] (e.g., below 5%, above 99.9%)."

ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA:
- [METRIC_1]: [OPERATOR] [THRESHOLD] (e.g., error_rate <= 5%)
- [METRIC_2]: [OPERATOR] [THRESHOLD] (e.g., p99_latency <= 2000ms)
- [FUNCTIONAL_CHECK]: [PASS/FAIL criterion]

NULL HYPOTHESIS (what failure looks like):
"The system will fail to meet [METRIC] when [FAULT] is applied."

Hypothesis Tiers

Tier Scope Hypothesis Type Example
Unit Single pod Component resilience "Killing one pod, service stays available"
Service One microservice Service resilience "DB connection lost, service uses circuit breaker"
Integration Service-to-service Dependency resilience "Payment service timeout, checkout returns cached response"
System Entire platform System resilience "AZ failure, traffic routes to healthy AZ"
Business User-facing flow Business continuity "30% pod churn, checkout conversion stays above 90%"

Read the full file on GitHub · 309 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. 11d ago First seen · 309 lines · 98 tokens per session scan A 733c3a9de42f

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chaos-hypothesis-validation is a skill published in the GitHub repository dungnotnull/hybrid-harness-chaos-process-prm (19 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 98 tokens to every session and 2,918 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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