fault-injection-test

fault-injection-test is a skill for Claude Code from squall-chua/skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (5,721 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A resilience-testing skill that deliberately breaks parts of a running system and measures the effect. Resilience means continuing to serve users and recovering after failures such as database errors, rate limits, stopped servers, or a full disk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to establish normal performance, inject environmental faults, measure disruption and recovery, and report missing safeguards.
Why use it?
A system may appear reliable during normal operation but fail badly or fail to recover when its environment breaks.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to establish normal performance, inject environmental faults, measure disruption and recovery, and report missing safeguards.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/squall-chua/skills/fault-injection-test
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 squall-chua/skills --skill fault-injection-test
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/squall-chua/skills

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 5,721 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 $0.00040 $0.05721
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.02861
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00572

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9d846bb37e98, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

fault-injection-test 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 10d 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.

skills/quality/fault-injection-test/SKILL.md · 456 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 456 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A steady state is the handful of numbers that say the system is serving people: the success rate, the latency at the tail, the orders going through per minute. Write them down and measure them before anything breaks. Without that baseline there is nothing to compare a broken run against, and "it seemed fine" is the whole finding.

Then break the environment underneath it — the database refusing connections, a third party answering 429, a pod killed mid-request, the disk full — and watch what the steady state does. The measurement is a comparison, not a score: how far it moved while the fault was live, how far the damage spread, and whether it came back once the fault was gone.

That last half is the one people forget. A system that survives every fault and then never recovers is worse than one that dips and returns, because a fault ends and this does not.

This skill reports

Steps 1 to 8 run the experiments and write up what happened. The production code stays exactly as it is. That report is the whole deliverable.

Steps 9 and 10 run only on a fix signal: "fix it", "close the gaps", "make it survive", "go ahead". The step 8 report is the before, so it is written on a fix run too, and written before anything is changed.

1. Define the steady state

Before naming a single fault. Pick the few signals that say the system is doing its job, and prefer the ones a customer would feel over the ones a dashboard happens to have.

Signal Reads like
Success rate non-error responses ÷ requests, on the paths that matter
Latency at the tail p95 and p99, not the mean — the mean hides the fault you are looking for
Throughput requests, jobs, or messages per second
A business number orders placed, payments captured, messages delivered per minute
Backlog queue depth, consumer lag, connection pool waiters
Recovery how long after a fault stops before the above are back in band

Each needs three things: the command or query that reads it, a value measured now, and a tolerance band — the range that still counts as serving people. A band decided after seeing the broken run is a band fitted to the result.

Read the full file on GitHub · 456 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. 10d ago First seen · 456 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 9d846bb37e98

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fault-injection-test is a skill published in the GitHub repository squall-chua/skills (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 5,721 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 2026-08-31.

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