agent-harness-fault-injection

agent-harness-fault-injection is a skill for Claude Code from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (2,494 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing method that deliberately creates repeatable failures in an AI-agent workflow. It checks what happens when tools, workers, checkpoints, memory, or other dependencies stop working.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test retries, resuming, deadlines, isolation, and partial-failure handling before production. It produces a fault matrix, event timeline, and recovery verdict.
Why use it?
It replaces unreliable random failure testing with fixed scenarios and clear evidence. This shows whether the workflow keeps its state, limits, safety rules, and recovery behavior during failures.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to test retries, resuming, deadlines, isolation, and partial-failure handling before production. It produces a fault matrix, event timeline, and recovery verdict.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/agent-harness-fault-injection
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,288 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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.

Any agent
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill agent-harness-fault-injection
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,494 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 $0.00034 $0.02494
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01247
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00249

Measured 13d ago against content hash b64b7afa7bbc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-harness-fault-injection 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 13d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/agent-harness-fault-injection/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Harness Fault Injection

Overview

Use a deterministic, non-production fault schedule to test whether an agent workflow preserves state, budgets, safety boundaries, and evidence when a dependency fails. The output is a small fault matrix, an event timeline, and a verdict that distinguishes recovered, contained, unrecoverable, and inconclusive runs.

When to Use This Skill

  • Use when a multi-step agent, state machine, loop, or multi-agent workflow has a new recovery path.
  • Use when sandbox execution, an MCP/tool call, a worker, a checkpoint store, or memory can time out or disappear.
  • Use before claiming retry, resume, deadline, isolation, or partial-failure behavior is production-ready.
  • Use when a regression needs reproducible failure evidence instead of a random chaos run.

Do not use this skill against a production target, real user data, live credentials, or an unbounded external service. Convert those cases to a local simulator or an authorized staging harness first.

Safety and Boundary Preconditions

  1. Freeze the workflow revision, model/prompt configuration, tool schemas, seed, input fixture, timeout, retry budget, deadline, and expected terminal states.
  2. Run in a disposable sandbox with synthetic inputs and stubbed tools. Keep network disabled unless the test explicitly needs a local test server.
  3. Make every injected failure an in-memory or fixture-controlled event. Never delete real data, revoke real credentials, kill an unrelated process, or mutate a live service to create a failure.
  4. Record the test scope and a run identifier before starting. A missing scope, fixture, or recovery contract makes the verdict inconclusive.

Recovery Contract

Write the invariant before injecting a fault. A useful contract names the state that must survive and the side effects that must not repeat:

After recovery, resume from the latest durable checkpoint, preserve the task
identity and safety policy, spend no more than the remaining retry/deadline
budget, and commit each externally visible effect at most once.

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. 13d ago First seen · 251 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A b64b7afa7bbc

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agent-harness-fault-injection is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,288 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 2,494 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 2026-08-30.