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Agent Degradation Recovery Patterns

Strategies for AI agent pipelines to detect degraded state, recover from partial failures, and restore full functionality. Covers health probes, circuit breakers, recovery scheduling, and re-hydration of stale cached data after upstream services come back online.

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$ openclaw agent health-check --probe-all-tools
$ openclaw agent run --auto-recover --recovery-delay 30
$ openclaw cache rehydrate --source primary --invalidate-stale

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Health Probes + Circuit Breakers: The Recovery Loop

Agent Degradation Recovery Patterns

# Agent Degradation Recovery: Health Probes and Circuit Breakers When an agent pipeline enters a degraded state, recovery requires a structured loop rather than simple retries. The two key components are **health probes** and **circuit breakers**, working together. ## Health Probes A health probe

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