circuit-breaker-pattern - Apply circuit breakers to agent tool calls
Tracks tool health, manages circuit states, routes failures to alternatives, reduces task scope, marks stale data, and enforces failure budgets.
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Updated: 2026-10-05Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Build capability maps
- Track tool health
- Manage circuit states
- Route to alternatives
- Reduce task scope
- Mark stale data
- Enforce failure budgets
- Separate orchestration from execution
Inputs
- Tool dependency list
- Task objective
- Known reliability issues
- Failure threshold
- Per-cycle failure budget
- Half-open probe interval
Outputs
- Capability map
- Circuit state table
- Routed task results
- Scope reduction report
- Stale-data labels
- Failure status report
- Paused task state
Requirements
- Agentic tool-calling environment
- Access to configured tools