circuit-breaker-pattern
circuit-breaker-pattern is an Agent runtime & coordination infrastructure skill for AI agents, published by pjt222 in the agent-almanac repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates circuit-breaker-pattern D (59/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Implement circuit breaker logic for agentic tool calls — tracking tool health, transitioning between closed/open/half-open states, reducing task scope when tools fail, routing to alternatives via capability maps, and enforcing failure budgets to prevent error accumulation. Separates orchestration (deciding what to attempt) from execution (calling tools), following the expeditor pattern. Use when building agents that depend on multiple tools with varying reliability, designing fault-tolerant agentic workflows, recovering gracefully from tool outages mid-task, or hardening existing agents against cascading tool failures.
- Grade
- D
- Quality
- 59 / 100
- Safety
- Passed
- GitHub stars
- 26
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Our review
- Architecture
- 80 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- Low-risk patterns
- License
- MIT
- Adoption
- Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 1 collections
What the scanner flagged
- mentions secrets in text
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