The Circuit Breaker Pattern for AI Agents
A circuit breaker for AI agents is an automatic control that pauses an agent the moment a measured condition crosses a threshold (too many errors, too much spend, too many actions, too many retries) and then refuses to resume until a human re-authorizes it. It does not wait for a person to notice trouble and react. The threshold is always watching, even at 3 a.m. when no one is. When the breaker…
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