resilience-game-day

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

1. Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
5. Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
6. 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.