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# Environment Chaos (Pillar 1)
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**What it is:** Flakestorm injects faults into the **tools, APIs, and LLMs** your agent depends on — not into the user prompt. This answers: *Does the agent handle bad environments?*
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**Why it matters:** In production, tools return 503, LLMs get rate-limited, and responses get truncated. Environment chaos tests that your agent degrades gracefully instead of hallucinating or crashing.
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---
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## When to use it
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- You want a **chaos-only** test: run golden prompts against a fault-injected agent and get a single **chaos resilience score** (no mutation generation).
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- You want **mutation + chaos**: run adversarial prompts while the environment is failing.
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- You use **behavioral contracts**: the contract engine runs your agent under each chaos scenario in the matrix.
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---
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## Configuration
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In `flakestorm.yaml` with `version: "2.0"` add a `chaos` block:
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```yaml
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chaos:
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tool_faults:
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- tool: "web_search"
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mode: timeout
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delay_ms: 30000
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- tool: "*"
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mode: error
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error_code: 503
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message: "Service Unavailable"
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probability: 0.2
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llm_faults:
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- mode: rate_limit
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after_calls: 5
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- mode: truncated_response
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max_tokens: 10
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probability: 0.3
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```
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### Tool fault options
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| Field | Required | Description |
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|-------|----------|-------------|
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| `tool` | Yes | Tool name, or `"*"` for all tools. |
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| `mode` | Yes | `timeout` \| `error` \| `malformed` \| `slow` \| `malicious_response` |
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| `delay_ms` | For timeout/slow | Delay in milliseconds. |
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| `error_code` | For error | HTTP-style code (e.g. 503, 429). |
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| `message` | For error | Optional error message. |
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| `payload` | For malicious_response | Injection payload the tool “returns”. |
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| `probability` | No | 0.0–1.0; fault fires randomly with this probability. |
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| `after_calls` | No | Fault fires only after N successful calls. |
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| `match_url` | For HTTP agents | URL pattern (e.g. `https://api.example.com/*`) to intercept outbound HTTP. |
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### LLM fault options
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| Field | Required | Description |
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|-------|----------|-------------|
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| `mode` | Yes | `timeout` \| `truncated_response` \| `rate_limit` \| `empty` \| `garbage` \| `response_drift` |
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| `max_tokens` | For truncated_response | Max tokens in response. |
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| `delay_ms` | For timeout | Delay before raising. |
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| `probability` | No | 0.0–1.0. |
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| `after_calls` | No | Fault after N successful LLM calls. |
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### HTTP agents (black-box)
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For agents that make outbound HTTP calls you don’t control by “tool name”, use `match_url` so any request matching that URL is fault-injected:
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```yaml
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chaos:
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tool_faults:
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- tool: "email_fetch"
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match_url: "https://api.gmail.com/*"
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mode: timeout
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delay_ms: 5000
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```
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---
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## Context attacks (tool/context, not user prompt)
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Chaos can also target **content that flows into the agent from tools or memory** — e.g. a tool returns valid-looking text that contains hidden instructions (indirect prompt injection). This is configured under `context_attacks` and is **not** applied to the user prompt. See [Context Attacks](CONTEXT_ATTACKS.md) for types and examples.
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```yaml
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chaos:
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context_attacks:
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- type: indirect_injection
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payloads:
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- "Ignore previous instructions."
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trigger_probability: 0.3
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```
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---
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## Running
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| Command | What it does |
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|---------|----------------|
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| `flakestorm run --chaos` | Mutation tests **with** chaos enabled (bad inputs + bad environment). |
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| `flakestorm run --chaos --chaos-only` | **Chaos only:** no mutations; golden prompts against fault-injected agent. You get a single **chaos resilience score** (0–1). |
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| `flakestorm run --chaos-profile api_outage` | Use a built-in chaos profile instead of defining faults in YAML. |
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| `flakestorm ci` | Runs mutation, contract, **chaos-only**, and replay (if configured); outputs an **overall** weighted score. |
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---
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## Built-in profiles
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- `api_outage` — Tools return 503; LLM timeouts.
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- `degraded_llm` — Truncated responses, rate limits.
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- `hostile_tools` — Tool responses contain prompt-injection payloads (`malicious_response`).
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- `high_latency` — Delayed responses.
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- `indirect_injection` — Context attack profile (inject into tool/context).
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Profile YAMLs live in `src/flakestorm/chaos/profiles/`. Use with `--chaos-profile NAME`. The **`model_version_drift`** profile exercises the LLM fault type **`response_drift`**.
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---
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## See also
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- [Context Attacks](CONTEXT_ATTACKS.md) — Indirect injection, memory poisoning.
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