chaos-engineering-expert

chaos-engineering-expert is a skill for Claude Code from personamanagmentlayer/pcl. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,128 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to chaos engineering, a practice of deliberately introducing controlled failures to see whether a system remains reliable. It covers failures such as network problems, crashed services, resource shortages, and corrupted data.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan resilience experiments involving services, networks, containers, dependencies, or system resources.
Why use it?
It helps teams find weaknesses before real outages do by testing expected behavior under failure. It also stresses small test scope, monitoring, and starting in a test environment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to plan resilience experiments involving services, networks, containers, dependencies, or system resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/personamanagmentlayer/pcl/chaos-engineering-expert
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add personamanagmentlayer/pcl --skill chaos-engineering-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/personamanagmentlayer/pcl

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,128 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
How audits are shown
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 $0.00075 $0.01128
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00564
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00113

Measured 5d ago against content hash 68f66b107249, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chaos-engineering-expert 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 5d 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.

stdlib/qa/chaos-engineering-expert/SKILL.md · 169 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Chaos Engineering Expert

Core Concepts

Chaos Engineering Principles

  • Hypothesis-Driven - Define expected system behavior
  • Production Testing - Test in real environments
  • Minimize Blast Radius - Start small, expand gradually
  • Automation - Continuous chaos experiments
  • Learn and Improve - Build resilience iteratively
  • Observability - Monitor system behavior

Failure Types

  • Network Failures - Latency, packet loss, partitions
  • Resource Exhaustion - CPU, memory, disk
  • Service Failures - Process crashes, unavailability
  • Data Corruption - Corrupt files, bad data
  • Time Drift - Clock skew, NTP failures
  • Dependency Failures - Third-party service outages

Tools & Platforms

  • Chaos Monkey - Netflix's random termination tool
  • Gremlin - Enterprise chaos engineering platform
  • Chaos Toolkit - Open-source chaos experiments
  • Litmus - Kubernetes chaos engineering
  • Pumba - Docker chaos testing
  • Toxiproxy - Network condition simulation

Best Practices

Experiment Design

  • Start with hypothesis
  • Define steady-state metrics
  • Begin with small blast radius
  • Test in staging first
  • Automate experiments
  • Document learnings

Safety Measures

  • Implement circuit breakers
  • Set up monitoring/alerting
  • Have rollback procedures
  • Limit blast radius
  • Run during business hours initially
  • Get stakeholder buy-in

Observability

  • Monitor golden signals
  • Track error rates
  • Measure latency (p50, p95, p99)
  • Monitor resource utilization
  • Log all chaos events
  • Correlate metrics

Culture

  • Foster blameless culture
  • Share learnings openly
  • Make chaos regular practice
  • Train teams on chaos engineering
  • Start with game days
  • Celebrate failures as learning

Anti-Patterns

Common Mistakes

  • Testing in production without preparation
  • No rollback plan
  • Ignoring blast radius
  • Running attacks during incidents
  • No monitoring in place
  • Blaming teams for failures

Read the full file on GitHub · 169 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. 5d ago First seen · 169 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 68f66b107249

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chaos-engineering-expert is a skill published in the GitHub repository personamanagmentlayer/pcl (40 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,128 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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