that no chaos engineering tool in production today can answer: Did your last experiment test the right thing? Not ‘Did it stay within budget?’ That is what SLO error-budget gating handles. Not ‘Did the system survive?’ That is what abort conditions measure. The question is whether the experiment was designed to validate a specific belief about your system’s behavior, and whether its outcome changed what your team knows about failure propagation through your stack. If your honest answer is ‘we terminated some pods, and they recovered,’ you ran a safe experiment. Whether you learned anything useful is a separate question that current tooling does not ask. This article makes a concrete argument: chaos engineering has a mature safety layer and an almost nonexistent intent layer. Safety tells you how much to break. Intent tells you what breaking it will teach.…