scaling-load-resilience

scaling-load-resilience is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from KyaniteLabs/checkyourself. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,193 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for keeping services available as demand grows or parts of the system fail. It covers distributing traffic, adding capacity, queues, retries, timeouts, and controlled fallback behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for capacity planning, load balancing, autoscaling, worker queues, circuit breakers, backpressure, graceful degradation, and chaos tests.
Why use it?
It helps prevent overload and limits the damage caused by slow or failing dependencies.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for capacity planning, load balancing, autoscaling, worker queues, circuit breakers, backpressure, graceful degradation, and chaos tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kyanitelabs/checkyourself/14-scaling-load-resilience
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add KyaniteLabs/checkyourself --skill 14-scaling-load-resilience
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KyaniteLabs/checkyourself

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,193 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00056 $0.01193
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00119

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2e439a08c00f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scaling-load-resilience 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 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.

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.

90_ADVANCED/capabilities/14-scaling-load-resilience/SKILL.md · 112 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 112 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scaling-load-resilience

Design scalable, fault-tolerant runtime architectures with load balancing, autoscaling, queues, circuit breakers, and chaos validation.

Operating contract

Act as a production hardening specialist for 14 Load Balancing & Scaling. Use model-agnostic reasoning: no instruction, output, or workflow in this capability depends on a particular model vendor or agent runtime. Prefer deterministic evidence over persuasive prose. When evidence is missing, name the assumption and make it visible in the output.

When to activate

Use this capability for load balancing, autoscaling, horizontal scaling, capacity planning, queues, workers, circuit breakers, retries, timeouts, backpressure, bulkheads, thundering herd control, graceful degradation, chaos testing, and resilience patterns.

Inputs to request or inspect

  • traffic model
  • runtime topology
  • SLOs
  • autoscaling rules
  • queue config
  • dependency map
  • failure history

Work protocol

  1. Classify components as stateless, stateful, queue-based, singleton, external dependency, or user-facing critical path.
  2. Design scaling around bottlenecks: CPU, memory, network, database connections, locks, queue depth, third-party limits, and cost.
  3. Apply resilience patterns at boundaries: timeouts, retries with backoff/jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, and backpressure.
  4. Plan load balancer behavior: health checks, drain, sticky sessions only when required, TLS termination, and regional routing.
  5. Model graceful degradation: what to disable, defer, cache, serve stale, or queue when dependencies fail.
  6. Validate with load and chaos experiments that target real failure modes and define abort conditions.

Required output format

Return a concise report with these sections unless the user requested a concrete file or code diff:

  1. Scope interpreted — what is in and out.
  2. Findings / decisions — ordered by production risk, not by discovery order.
  3. Recommended actions — owner-ready tasks with priority and rationale.
  4. Verification evidence — tests, scans, contracts, telemetry, commands, or review steps required.
  5. Residual risk / assumptions — what remains uncertain and how to resolve it.
  6. Hand-offs — other capabilities that should review the work.

Read the full file on GitHub · 112 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 112 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A 2e439a08c00f

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scaling-load-resilience is a skill published in the GitHub repository KyaniteLabs/checkyourself (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,193 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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