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Circuit Breaker

A pattern that stops calling a failing service after a threshold of errors, waits a cooldown, then probes to see if it recovered. Prevents cascading failures when one downstream agent or API breaks. Standard pattern in resilient agent orchestration.

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Blast Radius

How much damage spreads when something goes wrong in a multi-agent system. A small blast radius means one agent fails and the o...

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