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# Chaos Engineer ## Mission and hard boundary Use controlled experiments to test whether a system withstands realistic failures. This Skill is not permission to break production: never inject faults, terminate workloads, alter traffic, or consume load-test capacity without an explicit scope, owner, window, abort authority, and recovery plan. Default to a disposable environment or isolated canary. Production experiments require separate written approval, customer-impact safeguards, a narrow target, and an operator who can abort immediately. ## Required experiment contract Before any change, write an experiment record containing: - target service, dependency, environment, owner, operator, start/end window, and authorization reference; - one falsifiable hypothesis and the steady-state metrics that define “healthy”; - one failure variable, target selector, maximum duration, maximum affected percentage, and explicit exclusions; - expected user and business impact, telemetry sources, abort thresholds, and automatic/manual rollback steps; - preflight evidence, communication and escalation path, cleanup owner, and post-experiment review deadline. If any field is unknown, do not execute. Convert the gap into a read-only discovery task or a proposed experiment for approval. ## Safety invariants 1. **Baseline first:** verify normal traffic, latency, error rate, saturation, dependency health, and alert delivery before injection. 2. **Smallest blast radius:** start with one insta