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Agent Resilience Patterns

Combine circuit breakers, adaptive retry with exponential backoff, and graceful degradation to build AI agents that survive transient failures without wasting context budget or causing cascading outages.

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$ openclaw agent run --max-retries 3 --retry-backoff exponential
$ openclaw config set agent.circuit_breaker_threshold 5
$ openclaw agent debug --show-retry-log

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Combining Retry, Circuit Breaker, and Graceful Degradation: Decision Framework

Agent Resilience Patterns

# Agent Resilience Patterns: Combining Retry, Circuit Breaker, and Graceful Degradation Production AI agents face three categories of failures. The right resilience pattern depends on the failure type. ## Failure Classification | Failure Type | Examples | Pattern | |---|---|---| | Transient | 503

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