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Generates guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in…
Install Google Cloud Waf Reliability
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills google-cloud-waf-reliability --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability .claude/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "google-cloud-waf-reliability" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability into .claude/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "google-cloud-waf-reliability", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliabilityType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills google-cloud-waf-reliability --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability .agents/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "google-cloud-waf-reliability" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability into .agents/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "google-cloud-waf-reliability", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills google-cloud-waf-reliability --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability .cursor/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "google-cloud-waf-reliability" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability into .cursor/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "google-cloud-waf-reliability", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/google/skills.git --path skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills google-cloud-waf-reliability --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability .gemini/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "google-cloud-waf-reliability" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability into .gemini/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "google-cloud-waf-reliability", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install google/skills google-cloud-waf-reliabilityInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability .github/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "google-cloud-waf-reliability" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability into .github/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "google-cloud-waf-reliability", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install google/skills google-cloud-waf-reliability --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability .opencode/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "google-cloud-waf-reliability" agent skill from https://github.com/google/skills/tree/main/skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability into .opencode/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "google-cloud-waf-reliability", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
google-cloud-waf-reliability- GitHub stars
- 21k
- Token cost
- ~2k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 826 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 145
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
At a glance
Generates guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in…
- The user asks to evaluate
- SKILL.md covers Overview, Core principles, Relevant Google Cloud products and Workload assessment questions, plus 1 more section
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Improve the reliability
What it does
Google Cloud Waf Reliability is an agent skill from google/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Generates guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Use when the user asks to evaluate, design, or improve the reliability, resilience, availability, or disaster recovery capabilities of Google Cloud workloads.
Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in DevOps & Cloud, covering Cloud architecture, Site reliability engineering and Backup and disaster recovery. It works with Google Cloud. The repository describes itself as: Agent Skills for Google products and technologies. The licence is Apache-2.0.
When your agent uses it
- The user asks to evaluate
- Improve the reliability
- Disaster recovery capabilities of Google Cloud workloads
Example prompts
- “Use the google-cloud-waf-reliability skill to generate guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster…”
- “/google-cloud-waf-reliability”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8a1ac05. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):
docs.cloud.google.com
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Google Cloud Waf Reliability loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 108 tokens; SKILL.md has 826 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from google/skills at commit 8a1ac05, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© google). 826 words, ~2,025 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- google-cloud-waf-reliability
- description
- Generates guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework. Use when the user asks to evaluate, design, or improve the reliability, resilience, availability, or disaster recovery capabilities of Google Cloud workloads.
- metadata.version
- 1.0.0
- metadata.category
- WellArchitectedFramework
Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework skill for the Reliability pillar
Overview
The Reliability pillar of the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework provides principles and recommendations to help you design, deploy, and manage reliable, resilient, and highly available workloads in Google Cloud. A reliable system consistently performs its intended functions under defined conditions, is resilient to failures, and recovers gracefully from disruptions, thereby minimizing downtime, enhancing user experience, and ensuring data integrity.
Core principles
The recommendations in the reliability pillar of the Well-Architected Framework are aligned with the following core principles:
Define reliability based on user-experience goals: Measurement of reliability should reflect the actual experience of the system's users rather than merely relying on infrastructure metrics. Focus on outcomes that matter most to users. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/define-reliability-based-on-user-experience-goals.md.txt
Set realistic targets for reliability: Determine appropriate Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that balance the cost and complexity of maximizing availability against business requirements. Provide guidance on defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) based on monitoring signals, error budgets, and user experience goals. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/set-targets.md.txt
Build highly available systems through resource redundancy: Eliminate single points of failure by duplicating critical components across zones and regions to maintain operations during localized outages. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/build-highly-available-systems.md.txt
Take advantage of horizontal scalability: Design system architectures to scale horizontally (adding more instances) to seamlessly accommodate load fluctuations and improve overall fault tolerance. Incorporate proactive capacity planning to monitor and adjust project quotas and resource availability anticipating sudden load spikes. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/horizontal-scalability.md.txt
Detect potential failures by using observability: Implement thorough monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively detect, diagnose, and address anomalies before they cause user-facing issues. Monitor the golden signals (latency, traffic, errors, and saturation) and set up alerts for when the signals cross specified thresholds. Use Cloud Monitoring to build comprehensive dashboards for the golden signals. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/observability.md.txt
Design for graceful degradation: Architect systems to maintain critical functionality, even if at reduced performance or with limited features, when dependencies fail or the system experiences extreme stress. To avoid cascading failures, recommend setting up alerts to detect failures early, using the circuit-breaker pattern, handling timeouts effectively to release blocked resources, utilizing retries with exponential backoff and jitter to avoid overwhelming recovering backend systems, and returning custom error responses or static fallback pages. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/graceful-degradation.md.txt
Perform testing for recovery from failures: Build confidence in system resilience by continuously simulating failures and verifying the effectiveness of automated and manual recovery procedures. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/perform-testing-for-recovery-from-failures.md.txt
Perform testing for recovery from data loss: Regularly test backup and restore protocols to ensure rapid recovery from data corruption or loss, remaining within the defined Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/perform-testing-for-recovery-from-data-loss.md.txt
Conduct thorough postmortems: Foster a blameless culture by investigating outages comprehensively to understand root causes, followed by implementing measures that prevent recurrence. Grounding document: https://docs.cloud.google.com/architecture/framework/reliability/conduct-postmortems.md.txt
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Relevant Google Cloud products
The following are examples of Google Cloud products and features that are relevant to reliability:
- Compute: Compute Engine Managed Instance Groups (MIGs), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Run
- Networking: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud DNS
- Storage and databases: Cloud Storage (multi-region), Cloud SQL High Availability, Spanner, Filestore, Firestore
- Operations: Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
- Disaster recovery: Backup and DR Service, Filestore backups
Workload assessment questions
Ask appropriate questions to understand the reliability-related requirements and constraints of the workload and the user's organization. Choose questions from the following list:
- How does your organization define and measure the reliability of your systems in relation to user experience?
- How does your organization approach setting reliability targets for your services?
- What is your organization's strategy for ensuring high availability through resource redundancy?
- How does your organization leverage horizontal scalability to maintain performance and reliability?
- How does your organization utilize observability (metrics, logs, traces) to gain insights and detect potential failures?
- How does your organization manage alerting based on observability data to ensure timely responses to significant issues without causing alert fatigue?
- What measures does your organization take to ensure systems can gracefully degrade during high load or partial failures?
- How frequently and comprehensively does your organization test for recovery from system failures (e.g., regional failovers, release rollbacks)?
- What is your organization's approach to testing for recovery from data loss?
- How does your organization conduct and utilize postmortems after incidents?
Validation checklist
Use the following checklist to evaluate the architecture's alignment with reliability recommendations:
- User-focused SLIs and SLOs are explicitly defined and actively monitored.
- The architecture avoids single points of failure through cross-zone or cross-region redundancy.
- Autoscaling is enabled to handle variable demand without manual intervention.
- Application and infrastructure health checks are configured to trigger automated failovers.
- Regular backup schedules are in place, and restoration processes are routinely tested.
- The system architecture incorporates patterns like circuit breakers, retries with exponential backoff, and rate limiting to support graceful degradation.
- Game days or chaos engineering practices are regularly held to validate failure recovery.
- A formalized, blameless postmortem process exists to ensure organizational learning from operational incidents.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability of google/skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8a1ac05
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Questions about Google Cloud Waf Reliability
What does Google Cloud Waf Reliability do?
Generates guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in…. Google Cloud Waf Reliability is an agent skill from google/skills, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Generates guidance for reliability, resilience, availability, redundancy, fault-tolerance, and disaster recovery (DR) for Google Cloud workloads based on the design principles and recommendations in the Google Cloud Well-Architected Framework.
When should I use Google Cloud Waf Reliability?
Google Cloud Waf Reliability fits situations like: the user asks to evaluate; improve the reliability; disaster recovery capabilities of Google Cloud workloads.
How do I install Google Cloud Waf Reliability in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability in google/skills) into .claude/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Google Cloud Waf Reliability in Codex?
Run `npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cloud/google-cloud-waf-reliability in google/skills) into .agents/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Google Cloud Waf Reliability in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add google/skills --skill google-cloud-waf-reliability -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability, .gemini/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability, .github/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability and .opencode/skills/google-cloud-waf-reliability in your project.
What does Google Cloud Waf Reliability need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Google Cloud Waf Reliability is instructions for the agent only.
Does Google Cloud Waf Reliability access the network?
SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: docs.cloud.google.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Google Cloud Waf Reliability safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Google Cloud Waf Reliability use?
Google Cloud Waf Reliability is published under the Apache-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Google Cloud Waf Reliability use?
About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Google Cloud Waf Reliability?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Google Cloud Waf Reliability: Cloud Architect (Jeffallan/claude-skills, 12k stars), Google Cloud Waf Reliability (davila7/claude-code-templates, 32k stars), Senior Cloud Architect (borghei/Claude-Skills, 874 stars) and Cloud Cost Optimization (wshobson/agents, 40k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Google Cloud Waf Reliability?
google (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in google/skills, which has 20,994 GitHub stars. The repository holds 145 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 6, 2026.
Source: google/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.