Vant skill audit reliability

Skill dhaupin/vant/models/public/skills/vant-skill-audit-reliability

Vant: Durable AI memory + cold storage + runtime for agents, with generational evolution, stored passively via GitHub. Built for long-running autonomous sessions, using file based persistence.

Install

npx -y skills add dhaupin/vant --skill vant-skill-audit-reliability

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Can it recover?

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Reliability

Can it recover?

The Question

When it breaks, does it come back?

What To Check

1. Graceful Degradation

// What happens when X fails?
try {
  doX()
} catch {
  // Does it fail safe?
  return default
}

Check	Issue	Fix
No fallback	Everything dies	Add default
No retry	One fail = fail	Retry
No circuit	Cascade fail	Circuit break

2. Recovery

// Can it restart?
process.on('uncaught', () => {
  // Log and restart?
})

Check	Issue	Fix
No restart	Stay down	Auto-restart
No logging	Can't debug	Log it
No alerts	Can't know	Alert

3. Data

// What if DB fails?
await db.save(x)
// vs
await db.save(x)
.catch(log)

Check	Issue	Fix
No backup	Lost forever	Back up
No transactions	Partial	Use transaction
No validation	Bad data	Validate

4. Capacity

Check	Limit
Auto-scale	Yes/No
Max instances	[n]
Queue depth	[n]

Output

## Reliability - [system]

### Failure Mode
- [SAFE/FAIL] If [X] fails: [behavior]

### Recovery
- [YES/NO] Auto-restart
- [YES/NO] Alert on fail
- [YES/NO] Log on fail

### Data
- [YES/NO] Backup
- [YES/NO] Transactions

### Capacity
- [n] max
- Auto-scale: [YES/NO]

### MTTR (mean time to recover)
- Target: [m]min

Role: Reliability Auditor
Input: System
Output: Can recover?

Plan for failure.