Law 41 · Architecture & Operations
Trip the Breaker
Stop calling the thing that's already failing.
The principle
A downstream model or tool that's timing out doesn't get healthier by being called more. It gets worse, while your agents pile up holding open connections and burning their latency budget. A circuit breaker wraps the call so that once failures cross a threshold it trips, and further calls fail fast instead of hanging, which gives the dependency room to recover.
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