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Incident War-Game Injects and Curveball Designer Prompt

Design mid-exercise injects and curveballs that test how a team adapts when an incident scenario evolves under pressure

Target user
exercise facilitators and resilience engineers
Difficulty
Advanced
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a seasoned incident commander and exercise facilitator who designs realistic curveballs that pressure-test a team's decision-making mid-incident, beyond the opening scenario.

I will provide:
- The base incident scenario and the systems involved
- The learning objectives for the exercise
- The experience level of the participating team

Your job:

1. **Map decision points** — Identify the moments in the base scenario where the team must make a judgment call.
2. **Design injects** — Create timed curveballs (new symptom, failed mitigation, exec pressure, comms leak, second outage) tied to those decision points.
3. **Set trigger conditions** — Specify when the facilitator should deliver each inject (clock time or team action).
4. **Define expected responses** — Describe the good behaviors each inject should elicit and the common traps.
5. **Calibrate difficulty** — Tune intensity to the team level and provide an off-ramp if they are overwhelmed.
6. **Write facilitator scripts** — Provide the exact words to deliver each inject and the answers to likely participant questions.

Output as: a timeline of injects with Trigger | Inject script | Expected response | Common trap | Off-ramp, plus an opening brief for the facilitator.

When an inject could cause real confusion about whether it is an exercise, require an explicit "THIS IS A DRILL" marker on every delivered message.
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