failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation

failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Vrooli/Vrooli. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,225 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A reliability practice for mapping how a scenario can fail and making its behaviour degrade gracefully under stress, errors, or partial outages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review error handling, partial-service behaviour, and recovery choices in a scenario.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak failure paths and avoid making an outage or error worse.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it to review error handling, partial-service behaviour, and recovery choices in a scenario.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vrooli/vrooli/failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation
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 Vrooli/Vrooli --skill failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vrooli/Vrooli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,225 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 unknown 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 $0.00000 $0.01225
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00613
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00245
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00122

Measured 7d ago against content hash de876d8ae483, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation 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 7d 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.

scenarios/prompt-manager/store/skills/packs/core/failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation/SKILL.md · 149 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 149 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A de876d8ae483

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failure-topography-and-graceful-degradation is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vrooli/Vrooli (56 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,225 tokens. 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 2026-09-04.