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Google Cloud Reliability Advisor

Guides reliability, availability, and disaster recovery design for Google Cloud using the WAF Reliability pillar

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Repository
google/skills
Stars
21,782
Licence
Apache-2.0
Files
2 files

What it does

Once installed, the agent answers reliability and resilience questions about Google Cloud systems using the Reliability pillar of Google's Well-Architected Framework. It can explain principles such as defining SLOs, building redundancy across zones and regions, graceful degradation, backup and restore testing, and blameless postmortems, and it asks structured questions about the user's workload and targets such as RTO and RPO. It is a guidance and assessment aid, not a tool that changes cloud resources.

Great for

  • Cloud architects planning high availability or disaster recovery for a Google Cloud workload
  • SRE or platform teams reviewing SLOs, error budgets, and failover design
  • Teams preparing for a reliability review against Google's recommended practices

Skip it if

  • Live incident troubleshooting, because the skill is scoped to design guidance rather than hands-on diagnosis of running systems
  • Cost, operational excellence, or security reviews, which the skill explicitly excludes; using it for those gives off-scope answers
  • Replacing a formal DR test: the skill recommends testing recovery but does not run tests itself

Try asking

  • “Review my multi-region Cloud Run service and tell me where single points of failure remain”
  • “Help me set SLOs and error budgets for a customer-facing API on Google Cloud”
  • “What RTO and RPO targets should I define for a Cloud SQL database, and how should I test restores?”
  • “Draft a list of questions to ask our team before a disaster recovery design review”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Google Cloud Reliability AdvisorInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 2 original files, the Apache-2.0 licence and an attribution note.

    google-cloud-waf-reliability.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip google-cloud-waf-reliability.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip google-cloud-waf-reliability.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Give the agent your workload's user-facing goals and current RTO/RPO numbers so its recommendations are specific rather than generic.
  • The skill's attribution rule requires reading references/attribution.md before any gcloud, REST, or MCP command; check that file if you plan to run such commands alongside this skill.
  • Grounding links point to live Google documentation, so the agent may fetch them if your environment allows; verify current guidance against the official pages.

What's inside

  • references/attribution.md
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from google/skills under the Apache-2.0 licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.