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Agent Fault Isolation Patterns

Design patterns for isolating faults in multi-agent systems: bulkhead partitioning to prevent cascading failures, timeout hierarchies aligned with context budgets, and retry budgets shared across the agent call tree. Ensures one failing subagent cannot exhaust the orchestrator context or token allowance.

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$ openclaw agent run --bulkhead-size 3 --timeout-hierarchy strict
$ openclaw config set agent.retry_budget_shared true
$ openclaw agent debug --show-fault-isolation-log

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Bulkhead + Timeout Hierarchy: Practical Fault Isolation for Multi-Agent Systems

Agent Fault Isolation Patterns

# Bulkhead + Timeout Hierarchy: Practical Fault Isolation for Multi-Agent Systems The agent-fault-isolation-patterns skill covers three essential design patterns that every production multi-agent system should implement. Here's a practical breakdown. ## Bulkhead Pattern Borrowed from ship design,

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