| name | resilience-game-day |
| description | Design and execute bounded resilience experiments that validate failover, degradation, recovery, dependency handling, and operator response. |
Resilience Game Day
Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.
Procedure
- Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
- Establish the evidence baseline using failure-mode analysis, staging or controlled production environment, telemetry, recovery procedures, and abort controls. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
- Choose a production-relevant failure hypothesis, bound blast radius, define abort criteria, inject the failure safely, and compare observed behavior with the claimed reliability design.
- Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
- Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
- Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.
Quality gate
The experiment produces reproducible evidence about a reliability claim without uncontrolled customer impact.
