# aws-resilience-lifecycle

Walks the agent through Define → Test → Operate on AWS, from Resilience Hub v2 policy to FIS experiments and ARC controls.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4100 installs · ★ 3282
- Author: aws
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle

## What it does

The skill splits resilience work across three services. Define is Resilience Hub v2 (NGRH, CLI namespace `aws resiliencehubv2`): create a policy, register the service, run an assessment. Test is Fault Injection Service, where each failure mode gets reproduced in an experiment. Operate is Application Recovery Controller with its operational controls. An unqualified "Resilience Hub" here always means v2; v1 shows up only for migration.

Reference files carry the detail: `references/lifecycle-workflow.md` for the procedure, `references/best-practices.md` for operational patterns and policy design, and `references/api-reference.md` for exact CLI operation names plus a table that maps common wrong API names to correct ones. Read that last file before generating commands, or the agent will happily invent an operation. When the skill is loaded through the AWS MCP `retrieve_skill` tool, those files are not on the local filesystem — fetch them with the `file` parameter instead of reading the paths directly.

The rule that shapes everything: do not mark NGRH findings resolved without proof. Closing a finding before an experiment reproduces the failure mode is paper compliance — it records intent, not resilience. Run the experiment, confirm recovery within your objectives, then mark it resolved. For alarms and dashboards the skill points to the companion AWS Observability skill and stays on how those signals feed the lifecycle.

## Requirements
- Works with: AWS

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-resilience-lifecycle -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-resilience-lifecycle -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-resilience-lifecycle -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws aws-resilience-lifecycle
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-resilience-lifecycle -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --path skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-resilience-lifecycle -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/tree/HEAD/skills/specialized-skills/resilience-skills/aws-resilience-lifecycle/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- create a resilience policy and register a service in Resilience Hub v2
- connect a discovered failure mode to a specific FIS experiment
- set up operational controls in Application Recovery Controller
- prove recovery within RTO and RPO before closing a finding
- plan a resilience program across Define, Test and Operate

## Example prompts
- Help me plan the full resilience lifecycle for my AWS service
- Is marking NGRH findings as resolved actually enough?
- How do I connect Resilience Hub findings to FIS experiments and ARC controls?

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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---
name: aws-resilience-lifecycle
description: >
  Guides the end-to-end AWS resilience lifecycle integrating Resilience Hub v2, Fault Injection Service,
  and Application Recovery Controller. Covers the Define → Test → Operate workflow: from
  policy creation through failure mode assessment, to FIS experiment validation, to ARC
  operational controls. Applicable when the user wants a complete resilience strategy, needs to
  connect findings to experiments to controls, or is planning a resilience program.
  Also applicable for the meta question of whether marking NGRH findings as resolved is enough,
  whether they are "done" after resolving findings, or how to validate findings before
  resolving them. Not applicable for resolving or remediating a specific individual finding
  (see resilience-hub-failure-mode-assessment), or when a single service is explicitly
  named (e.g. "what FIS experiment should I run").
version: 1
---

# AWS Resilience Lifecycle

## Overview

Domain expertise for the integrated resilience lifecycle across three AWS services:
Define (Resilience Hub v2 — also called NGRH, New Generation Resilience Hub) → Test (FIS) → Operate (ARC).

**Terminology:** in this skill an unqualified "Resilience Hub" always means **v2** (NGRH / New Generation Resilience Hub, CLI namespace `aws resiliencehubv2`). v1 (`aws resiliencehub`) is referenced *only* explicitly, and only for migration.

> The AWS MCP server is recommended for executing this skill's AWS API calls, but it is not required — all operations also work with the AWS CLI directly.

## Guardrail — where this skill's own files live (MCP vs local install)

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