Security

Agent Reliability and Fallbacks

• A Circuit Breaker the Agent Can Read: What the Model Sees at Trip
• Detecting Agent Loops Before They Burn Budget
• When a Downstream Agent Returns Confident Garbage
• A Budget and a Kill Switch for a Chain That Keeps Retrying
• A Cost Table for Redundant Access Paths
• A Latency Budget for Tool Calls: Timeouts and Retries per Hop
• A Rollback Plan You Can Execute on a Sunday
• How to Write a Postmortem for an AI Agent Incident
• Measuring Whether the Breaker Prevents Loops
• Putting Fallback Options Inside the Tool Result
• Rollback Triggers for AI Features: Setting the Conditions First
• Setting a Per-Hop Timeout and Retry Budget Across an Agent Chain
• Spend Limits for Agents That Loop: Budgets, Rate Caps and Alerts
• Turning Escalated Trips Into a Repair Playbook
• Versioning Agent Prompts Like Code
• What an Agent Should Do When a Tool Call Fails
• What Each Agent in a Chain Should Put in Its Error Message
• What to Show the User When the Model API Fails Mid-Call
• What Your Agent Should Do When It Loses Access to a System
• When the Memory Store Is Slow: Graceful Degradation for Agents
• When the Model Provider Goes Down: A Fallback Plan for Your Agent
• Writing a Retry Policy That Survives a Flaky Model API
• Writing a Timeout Budget Across an Agent's Call Chain
• Writing the SLA You Can Actually Keep for an AI Feature