What problem does it solve? Production systems fail in ways that testing never reveals: cascading failures, retry storms, pool exhaustion, and botched deployments. This Skill provides a structured framework based on Michael Nygard's Release It! to audit, score, and harden systems against real-world failure modes before they cause outages. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Stability Audit & Scoring: Run an 8-point Quick Diagnostic covering timeouts, circuit breakers, bulkheads, zero-downtime deploys, deep health checks, correlated telemetry, load testing, and failure injection, with a scored assessment and specific fixes per failing row. - Stability Pattern Implementation: Apply circuit breakers, bulkheads, timeouts, retry budgets with backoff and jitter, and fail-fast behavior to stop cascading failures at integration points. - Capacity & Deployment Planning: Design load, stress, soak, and spike tests, size connection and thread pools from measured concurrency, and plan blue-green, canary, or rolling deployments with expand-contract database migrations. - Use Case: Your service keeps crashing under load. Use this Skill to audit every integration point, identify which stability anti-patterns are present (e.g., missing read timeouts, shared thread pools), and get a concrete remediation plan with tuned circuit breaker thresholds and isolated resource pools. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to audit your production service using the Release It! quick diagnostic and list which stability patterns are missing.