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Manage chaos experiments via Harness MCP to validate system resilience.

80|16|Updated Mar 11, 2026
Search Tags:#resilience#mcp#kubernetes#experimentation#chaos#chaos-engineering
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/harness/harness-skills --skill chaos-experiment
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Skill: chaos-experiment
Source: https://github.com/harness/harness-skills/tree/main/skills/chaos-experiment
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/harness/harness-skills --skill chaos-experiment

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve?

Harness Chaos Engineering via MCP enables teams to systematically validate system resilience by running structured chaos experiments. It reduces blind spots, accelerates detection of weaknesses, and helps teams quantify recovery capabilities under controlled fault injection.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Orchestrate chaos experiments across chaos infrastructures, templates, experiments, and runs within Harness MCP v2.
  • Create, execute, and monitor resilience tests to understand blast radius, recovery times, and service impacts.
  • Use case: run a pod-delete and CPU-stress experiment on a microservice to observe failure modes and validate automatic recovery.

Quick Start

Create a pod-delete chaos experiment for my checkout-service using MCP to validate recovery.

Frequently Asked Questions about chaos-experiment

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I run chaos experiments on Kubernetes microservices to test resilience?▼

A chaos experiment systematically injects controlled faults into your infrastructure to validate system resilience. It helps reduce blind spots, detect weaknesses early, and quantify recovery capabilities under simulated failure conditions across your resources.

Can I create and manage Kubernetes chaos templates using MCP operations?▼

You can create and manage Kubernetes chaos experiments using Harness MCP operations. This Skill applies across multiple resource types including infrastructures, templates, experiments, runs, and probes to perform end-to-end chaos workflows within a project.

What is a chaos experiment and when do I need it for my infrastructure?▼

A chaos experiment is a structured test that injects controlled faults into your infrastructure to validate resilience. You need it to reduce blind spots, detect system weaknesses, and quantify recovery capabilities before real outages occur.

Does this chaos engineering workflow require any specific dependencies or components?▼

No external dependencies or components are required to execute chaos engineering workflows. This Skill operates directly through Harness MCP v2 to manage and run resilience tests within your existing project and organization infrastructure.

How do I monitor blast radius and recovery times during a chaos experiment run?▼

You can monitor blast radius and recovery times by executing and tracking chaos experiment runs through this Skill. It allows you to observe service impacts and failure modes to validate automatic recovery capabilities under controlled fault injection.

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