Company
Date Published
Author
Uma Mukkara
Word count
755
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Harness's new Chaos MCP Tools leverage AI Agents and AI Tools to facilitate resilience testing through natural language prompts, enabling users to assess the resilience of business-critical applications or services without needing extensive technical knowledge. These tools simplify the orchestration of chaos experiments by translating user prompts into API calls, making resilience testing more accessible amid the widespread digital transformation and cloud-native system adoption. The tools include features for listing, describing, running, and obtaining results from chaos experiments, helping users gain actionable insights into service resilience. The rise of AI and LLMs has reduced the skill barrier for conducting effective resilience testing, aligning with enterprises' growing need for robust resilience management. Harness has made its MCP server open-source, providing documentation and video tutorials to assist users in setting up and utilizing the server for resilience testing.