google-cloud-waf-reliability skill: review Google Cloud reliability and disaster recovery

Makes your agent review a Google Cloud workload for uptime, failover and disaster recovery using the Well-Architected Framework.

Installs: 14.5K; on skills.sh
Stars: 21.8K; on GitHub
Files: 1; besides SKILL.md
Updated: Nov 2026; last repo commit

This skill gives your agent the reliability pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework as a set of principles and a checklist. It covers user-focused SLOs, redundancy, scaling, observability, graceful degradation, recovery testing and blameless postmortems.

It triggers on uptime, high availability, disaster recovery, RTO and RPO, backup strategy and multi-region failover on Google Cloud. It is not for other pillars, hands-on deployment or live incident troubleshooting.

The skill bundles no scripts. Before any gcloud, REST or MCP command it asks the agent to read a usage-attribution file.

Good for

SREs setting SLOs, RTO and RPO targets on Google Cloud
Architects designing multi-zone or multi-region failover
Teams planning backups, restore tests and postmortems

Install google-cloud-waf-reliability

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the google-cloud-waf-reliability skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add https://github.com/google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js.

From its listing on skills.sh. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Evaluates, designs, and improves the reliability, resilience, availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) of Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Reliability pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Use when the user asks about reliability-related topics like workload uptime, designing for high availability (HA) or DR, setting and meeting RTO/RPO targets, SRE best practices, backup strategies, multi-region failover, or fault-tolerant architecture on Google Cloud. Don't use for other Well-Architected Framework pillars such as Cost Optimization, Operational Excellence, or Security, or for hands-on resource deployment and live incident troubleshooting.

Sections in SKILL.md

Attribution
Overview
Core principles
Relevant Google Cloud products
Workload assessment questions
Validation checklist

Key facts

Author: Google (google/skills repo; the README says it holds Agent Skills for Google products)
Repo: google/skills, folder skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability
Installs on skills.sh: 14,529 as of 2 Nov 2026
GitHub stars: 21,764 for the whole google/skills repo, 2 Nov 2026
License: Apache-2.0
Last commit in the repo: 2026-11-01
What is inside: 2 files including SKILL.md
skills.sh audits: Gen Agent Trust Hub pass, Socket pass, Snyk pass
Part of: google/skills, which lists Agent Skills for Google products
Version in SKILL.md: 1.0.2, category WellArchitectedFramework

What it includes

From user-experience goals to blameless postmortems
User-focused reliability, realistic targets, redundancy, horizontal scaling, observability, graceful degradation, failure recovery tests, data-loss recovery tests and postmortems. Each links to a Google architecture page.
Read · Core principles (9)
Circuit breakers, timeouts, retries with backoff and jitter
Tells the agent to recommend alerts, circuit breakers, timeouts, retries with exponential backoff and jitter, and static fallbacks to avoid cascading failures.
Read · Graceful degradation guidance
MIGs, GKE, Cloud Run, load balancing, Spanner, Backup and DR
Lists Google Cloud products by area: compute, networking, storage and databases, operations and disaster recovery.
Read · Products reference
Questions on SLOs, redundancy, alerting and recovery testing
The agent picks questions to learn how you measure and test reliability.
Try: “We run a Cloud SQL and GKE app in one region. How do we reach a 15 minute RTO?”
Read · Workload assessment questions (10)
SLOs, no single point of failure, autoscaling, health checks, backups
A list to score an architecture, ending with game days and a blameless postmortem process.
Read · Validation checklist (8)
Tags gcloud and HTTP calls with the skill name
Sets an environment variable on each gcloud command and a User-Agent suffix on direct HTTP or MCP calls. Not added to code it writes for you.
Runs code · Usage attribution

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

The skill is a checklist and bundles no scripts, but it expects the agent may run gcloud, REST or MCP commands with your own Google Cloud login. Review any command before you approve it.

What it can do

Read your data
Create and change things
Delete things
Read-only mode

Watch out for

It tags gcloud commands with the skill name
Before running gcloud, REST or MCP commands the agent must read the attribution file and set CLOUDSDK_METRICS_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTION, or a User-Agent suffix. The file says the tag carries only the skill name and version, and you can ask the agent to leave it off. github.com

Technical details

Turning on read-only	The SKILL.md defines no read-only switch.
Talks to	Google Cloud APIs, if you let the agent run gcloud, curl or MCP calls
Scopes	Tells the agent to read references/attribution.md before any gcloud, REST or MCP command Commands the agent runs use your own gcloud credentials

Questions

What does the google-cloud-waf-reliability skill do?

It makes your agent evaluate and design for reliability on Google Cloud, using the Reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework. Topics include SLOs, high availability, disaster recovery, backups and failover.

How do I install it?

Use the install box on this page. It is a SKILL.md plus one attribution file. The google/skills README also documents npx skills add google/skills for the full set.

Will it help during a live outage?

No. The description says not to use it for live incident troubleshooting or hands-on resource deployment. It is for design and review.

How is it different from the cost-optimization skill?

This one covers the reliability pillar. The sibling google-cloud-waf-cost-optimization skill covers the cost pillar, and this skill's description tells the agent not to use it for cost, operations or security questions.

What is the usage tag?

A string naming the skill and its version, set on gcloud commands and sent in a User-Agent header. The attribution file says it carries no user data, and that you can ask the agent to turn it off.

Is it safe?

The skill is advice and a checklist, and it bundles no scripts. If you let the agent run gcloud, those commands act with your own Google Cloud permissions, so review them first.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: google/skills
Folder: skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability

google/skills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

Show all 3

google-cloud-waf-reliability SKILL.md · github.com
attribution.md · github.com
cost-optimization SKILL.md · github.com