nw-stress-analysis

nw-stress-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from nWave-ai/nWave. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,026 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for examining whether a system can keep working when it faces unexpected technical, business, organizational, regulatory, or environmental pressures.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing high-uncertainty or mission-critical systems and exploring what would remain usable after major failures.
Why use it?
It helps expose weaknesses that ordinary design checks may miss, especially when future problems are hard to predict.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when designing high-uncertainty or mission-critical systems and exploring what would remain usable after major failures.

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npx agentmods add skills/nwave-ai/nwave/nw-stress-analysis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add nWave-ai/nWave --skill nw-stress-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nWave-ai/nWave

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,026 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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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 $0.00040 $0.01026
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00513
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00205
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00103

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2b56e6f9d825, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

nw-stress-analysis 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 3d 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.

nWave/skills/nw-stress-analysis/SKILL.md · 92 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 92 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Advanced Architecture Stress Analysis

Complexity science-based approach for architectures surviving unknown future stresses. Based on residuality theory by Barry M. O'Reilly (Former Microsoft Chief Architect, PhD Complexity Science).

Core paradigm: "Architectures should be trained, not designed."

When to Apply

Use for: high-uncertainty environments | mission-critical systems | complex socio-technical systems | innovative products | rapidly evolving markets

Skip for: well-understood stable domains | short-lived MVPs | simple few-component systems | resource-constrained environments

Three Core Concepts

1. Stressors

Unexpected events challenging operation. Categories: technical (failures, scaling, breaches) | business model (pricing shifts, competitive disruption) | economic (funding, market crashes) | organizational (restructuring, skill gaps) | regulatory (compliance changes) | environmental (infrastructure failures)

Brainstorm extreme and diverse. Goal = discovery, not risk assessment.

2. Residues

Design elements surviving after breakdown. Ask: "What's left when [stressor] hits?"

Example -- e-commerce under payment outage: residue = browsing, cart, wishlist. Lost: checkout, payment. Stress-informed: allow "reserve order, pay later."

3. Attractors

States systems naturally tend toward under stress. Differ from designed intent. Discovered through testing, not predicted.

Example -- social media under growth: designed = proportional scaling, actual attractor = read-heavy CDN mode (reads survive, writes queue/fail). Design for this.

Process

Step 1: Create Naive Architecture

Straightforward solution for functional requirements. No speculative resilience. Document as baseline.

Step 2: Simulate Stressors

Brainstorm 20-50 across all categories. Include extremes. Engage domain experts. Prioritize by impact (not probability).

Step 3: Uncover Attractors

Walk each stressor with experts. Ask "What actually happens?" Identify emergent behaviors. Recognize cross-stressor patterns.

Read the full file on GitHub · 92 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. 3d ago First seen · 92 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 2b56e6f9d825

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nw-stress-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository nWave-ai/nWave (610 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,026 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-06.

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