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Agent Graceful Degradation Patterns
Design patterns for AI agents to gracefully degrade functionality when upstream services fail, context budgets are exhausted, or subagent pools are saturated. Covers fallback chains, partial result synthesis, and communicating degraded state to the orchestrator without aborting entire pipelines.
Commands
$ openclaw agent run --fallback-chain 'primary,cached,stub'
$ openclaw config set agent.degradation_mode graceful
$ openclaw agent debug --show-degradation-log
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